Specialist Podiatrist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Erith; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Podiatrist to join their Community Podiatry Team. The successful candidate will deliver care to high-risk patients across the borough of Bexley, develop care plans, and work closely with multidisciplinary teams including diabetes specialists. A car is essential for this community-based role, involving travel to various clinic sites and domiciliary visits. This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and skilled Podiatrist to make a difference in patient care in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience working with high-risk patients.
• Ability to conduct domiciliary visits.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver care to high risk patients in the community.
• Develop care plans for patients with foot complications.
• Collaborate with acute hospital trusts and multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Experience in Podiatry

Ability to build relationships

Clinical audit skills

CPD engagement

Education

Relevant Podiatry degree

Job description

Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Podiatrist to join the Community Podiatry Team to deliver care to high risk patients in the borough of Bexley. We are a friendly and close-knit team who takes pride in what we do.

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust was included in the Sunday Times Top 10 Best place to work list 2023 and 2025. It was also named the Best Place to work in the country for people with disabilities and won the prestigious HSJ Trust of the Year.

You will be seeking a role as a Podiatrist where you can use and develop your skills and knowledge across our service. You will develop strong links and working relationships with acute hospital trusts, and you will have the opportunity to rotate into these services. We have a close working relationship with Diabetes specialist nurses, District nurses, and Tissue Viability teams.

The clinical work will involve working within clinical settings as well as carrying out domiciliary visits. A car is essential to this role, or the ability to move easily around the borough. You will be responsible for the planning and delivery of care plans in patients which are high risk of developing foot complications. You will work with patients who have foot ulcerations, make onward referrals to vascular services, refer into the Diabetes MDT service and acute services. You will attend handover with the district nurses and manage your own domiciliary ulcer caseload.

You will undertake clinical audit and there is the opportunity to become involved in Quality Improvement projects, audit and research.

You will have regular clinical supervision and access to a variety of CPD opportunities. You will be well supported by the wider Podiatry team including your colleagues in Greenwich. Additional support is available via the Preceptorship team.

Oxleas AHP Preceptorship.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

This position will be based in the community and will involve regular travel throughout the Borough of Bexley to different clinic sites and to visit patients in their own homes & care and nursing homes.