High Risk Podiatrist (Band 6) - Provide CIC

Provide CIC; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community interest company is seeking a Podiatrist to join its motivated team. The role involves assessing and managing patients with foot pathologies in a community setting, ensuring high standards of clinical care are delivered. Candidates should possess a degree in Podiatric Medicine, relevant clinical experience, and a commitment to patient care.

Qualifications

• Clinical experience for at least one year.
• Completed a program of competences.
• Independent prescribing or working towards it.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, and plan podiatric care for patients.
• Manage own caseload efficiently.
• Implement individualised care programmes.

Skills

Assessment techniques

Wound care experience

Problem-solving skills

Education

Degree/Diploma in Podiatric Medicine

Job description

The postholder will be part of a highly motivated Podiatry team working autonomously but with support (where needed) from a senior Podiatrist, in a community setting providing a high standard of quality clinical care. Working with patients at High risk of foot ulcers or with currently active foot ulcerations to support them with management of their foot pathologies.

The clinician will have had clinical experience for at least one year and completed a programme of competences.

The post holder will assess, diagnose, develop and implement individualised care programmes for patients with a wide variety of clinical needs. The post holder will also be expected to plan and manage their own caseload.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for the assessment diagnosis, planning implementation and evaluation of Podiatric care to a variety of patients with a wide range of clinical needs including: Diabetes, Vascular Disease, Rheumatological disease, Wound management, Neurological disorders, Nail Surgery.

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Practitioners and staff at Band 6 require a critical understanding of detailed theoretical and practical knowledge, are specialist and have some leadership and management responsibilities.

They demonstrate initiative and are creative in finding solutions to problems.

They have some responsibility for team performance and service development.

They consistently undertake self-development.

Provide aims to deliver high quality, professional and customer focused services. To ensure that this objective is met, it is expected that all employees carry out their roles in a courteous, compassionate and responsive manner and by the standard of their own appearance and behaviour act as an ambassador for the organisation within their interactions with all our customers.

Assessment

• Able to gather appropriate information.
• Able to select and use appropriate assessment techniques.
• Able to undertake or arrange investigations as appropriate.
• Able to analyse and critically evaluate the information collected.
• Formulation and delivery of treatment and / or action plans and strategies
• Able to use research, reasoning and problem-solving skills to determine appropriate actions.
• Able to draw on appropriate knowledge and skills in order to make professional judgements.
• Able to formulate specific and appropriate management plans including the setting of timescales.
• Able to conduct appropriate diagnostic or monitoring procedures, treatment, therapy or other actions safely and skilfully.
• Able to maintain records appropriately.

Person specification

• Degree/Diploma in Podiatric Medicine
• Wound care experience
• Independent prescribing or working towards
• To have completed a preceptorship at band 5

FURTHER INFORMATION:

How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
• If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or [e-mail].

Work Trials

Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

SuccessfulApplicant:

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Shereen Shams Job title Operational Lead Podiatry and Podiatric Surgery Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07756871225