Specialist Musculoskeletal Podiatrist

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC; Great Yarmouth; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC is seeking a Band 7 Podiatrist to join the MSK team in the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area. The role covers assessment, diagnosis, and provision of bespoke orthoses and exercise programmes within a clinic setting, with autonomous caseload management.

The post involves collaboration with Physiotherapists and Podiatrists to advance ECCH's integrated MSK service and improve patient independence through evidence-based practice.

Qualifications

• Diploma/Degree in Podiatry with HCPC registration.
• Experience in musculoskeletal (MSK) podiatry preferred.
• Strong communication and teaching skills.

Responsibilities

• Carry own caseload of complex MSK patients with autonomous practice.
• Develop and implement individualised MSK care plans and orthoses.
• Work with MSK team to develop services in line with best practice.
• Maintain clinical records and supervise others as needed.

Skills

Podiatry

Autonomous practice

Communication

Clinical assessment

Education

Podiatry degree

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Podiatrist to join our dynamic Musculoskeletal (MSK) team within the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Area. Our multi-disciplinary team provides timely assessments and treatment of a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions to facilitate and improve patients' quality of life and maximise patients' independence.

Main duties of the job

A variety of assessment and treatment techniques including face to face and telephone are utilised. The post is predominately in a clinic setting.

The postholder will carry and be responsible for their own caseload. They will assess, diagnose, develop and implement individualised care programmes for a caseload of patients who have complex musculoskeletal presentations including acute and chronic pain patterns; significant physical impairments due to pain or injury and psychological issues and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner, this will include provision of bespoke orthoses and exercise programmes.

The postholder will work with the Clinical Co-ordinator for Musculo-skeletal Services and MSK team leads (Physiotherapists and Podiatrists) to further develop, in line with evidence-based clinical best practice, ECCH's integrated MSK Service.

Main duties of the job

* To carry and be responsible for own caseload. Assess, diagnose, develop and implement individualised care programmes for a caseload of patients who have complex musculoskeletal presentations including acute and chronic pain patterns; significant physical impairments due to pain or injury and psychological issues and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner, this will include provision of bespoke orthoses and exercise programmes.

* Ensure effective communication to enable patients to achieve their maximum potential for self-management particularly where this is impaired due to pain and / or fear.

* A high standard of communication skills and clinical work is required which will also include teaching and supervision of other health professionals, non-registered staff and students.

* Work with the Clinical Co-ordinator for Musculo-skeletal Services and MSK Physiotherapists to further develop, in line with evidence-based clinical best practice, ECCH's integrated MSK Service.

About us

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Duties:

*To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients who have complex biomechanical problems, and to organise this efficiently and effectively regarding clinical priorities and use of time. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and those of other staff.

*To undertake comprehensive specialist assessment, treatment, and evaluation of outcomes of MSK patients, with a variety of presentations. This will include investigation and analysis of complex facts in order to formulate individual MSK treatment plans. The work will be carried out in the clinics, and hospital setting.

*To make direct referrals to diagnostic services, to interpret results and make onward referrals to secondary care services, or to other providers.

*To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching, and instruction to patients, relatives, carers and other professionals, to ensure the aims of MSK services are met and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care. This requires a high level of interpersonal and communication skills.

*To provide in-house training and support to the Podiatry Service to embed core biomechanical skills into wider clinical practice.

*To recognise when patient needs could be more appropriately met by a member of staff of a lower band, and to refer on as appropriate.

*To receive and provide complex, sensitive information. In communicating effectively with patients and carers, skills of persuasion, motivation, explanation, and gaining informed consent will be used. Barriers to effective communication will be evident with some patients e.g., impaired hearing, altered perception, speaking a language other than English, pain and fear. Patients may lack the ability to consent to treatment.

*To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment, and to support other staff likewise.

*To maintain clinical records in line with Organisational Policy and Professional Standards. To ensure that ECCH's clinical system, SystmOne, is maintained accurately so as to optimise patients care along treatment pathways.

Communication:

*To work effectively with other members of the multi-professional team to ensure seamless communication of complex information and delivery of seamless high quality patient care.

*To liaise with other agencies and services both within ECCH and other external agencies including health and social care organisations

*To ensure effective communication of complex and changing disease process / foot health issues with patients, relatives and carers where there may be barriers to understanding.

*To maintain accurate records of all patient consultations and related work carried out at each clinical session, including data collection.

*To attend and actively contribute to departmental meetings and in-service training.

*To ensure that all information relating to clients and staff gained thorough employment with ECCH is kept confidential. Disclosure to any unauthorised person is a serious disciplinary offence.

*All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role.

*Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word 'CARE'. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.

*Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• *Diploma / Degree in Podiatry
• *Current HCPC registration
• *Completion of relevant post graduate specialist training at master's level
• *Evidence of other continuing professional development
• *Teaching qualification

Experience

• *Worked in a variety of specialities as a qualified clinician, gaining specialised experience
• *Worked in the NHS or Private Sector in the UK providing a specialist Musculoskeletal biomechanics service.
• *Provision of clinical supervision
• *Demonstrates clinical leadership in biomechanics within local services.
• *Knowledge of audit processes
• *Previous work in an integrated Musculoskeletal service

Additional Criteria

• SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
• *Identify and evaluate opportunities for improvement, implement and evaluate change
• *Self-Directed learning
• *Ability to work independently
• *Ability to pass on skills / knowledge to other clinicians within both formal and informal environments, and to evaluate the application to practice Specialist knowledge of Musculoskeletal podiatry, and ability to identify and address poor practice
• *Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• *Critical appraisal skills
• *Previous experience in Audit and Research.
• *Competent use of IT
• *Highly developed Podiatry skills, and excellent knowledge of Musculoskeletal practice.
• *Cope with unpredictable work patterns.
• *Ability to prescribe a range or orthoses and assess / evaluate footwear.
• PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
• *Able to work collaboratively within a team
• *Able to work independently
• *Committed to personal and team development
• *Able to work with others and pass on skills and knowledge.
• *Able to maintain judgement under pressure.
• *Able to maintain motivation, drive, enthusiasm. Confident.
• *To communicate at all levels relaying often sensitive and emotional information. Be responsive to patient and service needs.
• *The ability to travel across the community
• *Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
• Lead| Action - My Accountability, My
• Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our
• Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
• Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
• SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
• PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
• *Teaching experience.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.