Podiatrist Senior Offender Health - Forest Bank & Styal

Partnering Health; Manchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider seeks a Senior Podiatrist for Offender Health in Manchester. The successful candidate will manage a clinical caseload within HM Prison settings, conducting assessments, formulating treatment plans, and delivering a range of podiatric care. Responsibilities include maintaining professional standards, effective communication with patients, and offering specialist advice to the multidisciplinary team. Candidates should possess a degree in Podiatry and significant clinical experience.

Qualifications

• Must be a registered Podiatrist with relevant qualifications.
• Experience in managing a clinical caseload is essential.
• Understanding of legal frameworks in podiatric care is critical.

Responsibilities

• Manage your own clinical caseload in HM Prison settings.
• Maintain professional standards and comply with policies.
• Assess patients comprehensively and formulate treatment plans.
• Deliver various podiatric treatments based on patient needs.

Skills

Podiatric assessments

Patient management

Clinical decision-making

Effective communication

Education

Degree in Podiatry

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Podiatrist in Offender Health, you will undertake assessment and treatment of patients within HM Prison (HMP) settings. This includes determining a clinical diagnosis, agreeing with the patient on a podiatric treatment plan, and maintaining records as an autonomous practitioner.

Responsibilities

• Manage your own clinical caseload, including the management of waiting lists in partnership with the HMP site.
• Maintain professional standards and comply with all PPH standards, policies, and procedures.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care, ensuring a high standard of clinical care.
• Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, organizing this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
• Assess capacity, gain valid informed consent, and work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• Undertake comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with complex presentations, using investigative and analytical skills to formulate individualised management and treatment plans.
• Deliver a wide range of podiatric treatments, including nail surgery, MSK/biomechanics, wound care, diabetes care, and routine care based on the patients’ needs and the agreed management plan.
• Provide advice and instruction to patients to facilitate and encourage appropriate self‑care as appropriate.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers to ensure understanding of the condition.
• Provide specialist advice, teaching, and training to other members of the multidisciplinary team as required.