Community Podiatrist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; St Helens; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Podiatrist to assess patients and plan podiatric care aimed at maintaining independence and mobility. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care in community settings.

Whether newly registered or experienced, the role offers development opportunities with rotation into acute sectors and pathways to advanced clinical or leadership roles. Flexible working options may be considered.

Qualifications

• Newly registered or experienced podiatrist welcome.

Responsibilities

• Assess and plan podiatric care packages to maintain independence and mobility.
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
• Provide treatment to maintain tissue viability and relieve pain, including specialist care packages for at-risk patients.
• Offer rotation into acute sectors (e.g., vascular and orthopaedics) and support career progression into advanced clinical or leadership roles.

Job description

Are you passionate about improving foot health and enhancing quality of life? Join our podiatry team and make a real difference to the lives of patients every day!

As a Community Podiatrist, you will assess and provide clearly planned podiatric care packages to patients with a variety of care needs, with the aim of maintaining independence and mobility. You will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating with other healthcare professionals to deliver high quality, patient centred care.

Whether you're a newly registered Podiatrist or experienced practitioner, this is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills in a supportive and forward thinking environment.

Our Offer To You

• Rotation into the acute sector as an observer in departments such as vascular and orthopaedics.


• Encouragement and support with your career progression into advanced clinical roles and leadership roles

Our values are at the heart of everything we do, they are:

• Continuous improvement


• Accountability


• Respect


• Enthusiasm


• Support

If you share our values and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we want to hear from you.

You will work as part of a highly motivated team providing a high standard of clinical care in a variety of community settings, ensuring the provision of seamless care between primary and secondary care.

You will provide treatment for patients to maintain tissue viability and relieve pain; especially patients who require specialist care packages because they are at special risk due to diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and peripheral vascular disease.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Amy Farrer Job title: Podiatry Team Manager Email address: [e-mail]

If you would like to come and meet our team or spend the day with us to find out more about what we do, please contact Amy Farrer using the above contact details.