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Specialist Podiatrist - Homelessness Project

CIH International Housing Group

London

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GBP 30,000 - 40,000

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3 days ago

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Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Band 6 Specialist Podiatrist to join their community clinics in London. The role involves providing high-quality podiatric care and active wound management to a diverse patient population. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team and play a pivotal role in enhancing service user experience and outcomes.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Relocation support up to £10,000

Qualifications

Current Registration with HCPC required.
One year's post graduate work experience is essential.
Experience with managing stock within a set budget is desirable.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the treatment planning of diabetic foot complications.
Provide specialist podiatric assessment in community clinics.
Participate in nail surgery and ulcer management clinics.

Skills

Advanced hands on experience in treatment of high risk patients

Communication skills

Treatment planning

Education

BSc (Pod) or equivalent

Post graduate qualification

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job overview

Band 6 Specialist Podiatrist

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and innovative podiatrist to work within our Specialist Podiatry Service in Tower Hamlets within community clinics; domiciliary setting, Homeless clinics and Mile End Hospital.

You will be involved daily in our Emergency Clinic at 8:30am Monday-Friday which provides Gold standard active wound care.

Main duties of the job

Just like you, we are ambitious about what we do. We are continually striving to improve service user care, experience and outcomes.

The successful candidate will be required to be flexible, working as part of a multidisciplinary community foot health services team - offering specialist podiatric assessment and treatment via a holistic approach, to a varied and complex caseload.

You will be involved daily in our Emergency Clinic at 8:30am Monday-Friday which provides "Gold standard" active wound care. You would be responsible for treatment planning for foot complications associated with e.g. diabetes, vascular / ischaemic long-term conditions and would be part of the foot protection team treating foot ulceration as part of community health services. You will have the opportunity to take part in nail surgery; and ulcer management clinics.

Bring your dedication and determination here, and you will benefit from the support of an experienced and enthusiastic multi-professional team committed to the delivery of brilliant patient care.

Will you join us on this journey? See JD for more about the role in detail.

Working for our organisation

The successful candidate will be required to state three reasons why they should be shortlisted for this post.

For an informal discussion please contact elsa.ahrens@nhs.net

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You would be responsible for treatment planning for foot complications associated with e.g. diabetes, vascular / ischemic long-term conditions and would be part of the foot protection team treating foot ulceration as part of community health services. You will have the opportunity to take part in nail surgery; and ulcer management clinics.

Please be advised that application from applicants who have applied for this role within the last 6 months will not be considered

Person specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential criteria

BSc (Pod) or equivalent
One year's post graduate work experience
Current Registration with HCPC

Desirable criteria

Post graduate qualification
Current UK Driving license

Experience

Essential criteria

Appropriate post graduate work experience including high risk patients and diabetics/ willing to work towards it
Experience of clinics with patients presenting with complex and varied pathologies.
Creating and following treatment plans including onward referrals and liaise with other professional for health of the patient.

Desirable criteria

Experience with managing stock within a set budget.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Advanced hands on experience in treatment of high risk patients
To ensure continued maintenance of equipment and machinery and identify and report any equipment needs.
To ensure that pharmacy stocks are stored in accordance with COSHH guidelines.
To manage a week-to-week domiciliary caseload and implement effective administration in accordance to department guidelines on domiciliary caseload management.
To be responsible for the development, communication and implementation of a specialized individual treatment plan. Obtaining patient consent for surgical intervention and treatment as required. Staff will be required to re-assure; educate and negotiate potentially complex treatment options where denial of pathology or compliance with treatment may be an issue, overcoming communication barriers. appreciating relevant cultural factors and making reference to senior colleagues as necessary
To work effectively as a part of a multidisciplinary team and independently as required in primary and secondary care settings to include; hospital clinics, ward rounds, health center community clinics, GP practice clinics, residential homes for the elderly, patient's homes and Mental Health units. Some of these may be in isolation, requiring autonomous practice guided by dept. policy

Personal and people development

Essential criteria

To support administration and clerical staff on a day-to-day basis by identifying and solving problems
To participate in the services Clinical Governance initiatives and the development and implementation of standards, guidelines and protocols.
To be actively involved in the development and implementation of departmental policies and procedures.
To support the team lead and head of service in managing and implementing change.

Desirable criteria

To supervise the work of foot-care assistants and students on clinical placements.
To help coordinate and support the provision of education and mentoring to junior members of staff including students and other podiatry grades.

Communication

Essential criteria

To attend monthly podiatry team meetings and locality multidisciplinary meetings in order to share information on local needs and initiatives and support the development of the podiatry service
To continually review patients. progress and Refer as necessary to other health care professionals and podiatry clinical specialist leads to ensure appropriate care is provided.
Maintain patient notes (electronic and hard copy) in a manner required by the Trust and current legal requirements.

Making Things Better

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

Our Community

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

Aiming High

We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

Staff and Service Users United

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

Diversity

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

Other reasons to apply

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

What Next?

If you like the sound of ELFT, don't waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!

As part of our recruitment process we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same..

If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please consider that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. You must provide professional email addresses for all referees as we will contact them as soon as an offer has been made. Please note we do not request references prior to interviews. All applications made through NHS Jobs account will be processed by TRAC System. Please note that some emails may go to your spam/junk mailbox so make sure you check this regularly.

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Applicant requirements

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.

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