Specialist Wound care Podiatrist

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Halifax; Presencial; GBP 32 000 - 52 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust in Halifax is seeking a Specialist Podiatrist in wound care to work across community health centres, patients' homes and acute hospital sites. You will determine clinical diagnoses, develop and refine individualized treatment plans, provide expert advice, and liaise with other agencies to ensure safe pathways of care.

The role also involves supporting service delivery, maintaining accurate records, contributing to training, and working within the

Responsabilidades

• Act as specialist podiatrist in wound care across settings such as community health centres, patients' homes and acute hospital sites.
• Determine clinical diagnosis and develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualized treatment programmes; provide specialist advice and liaise with other agencies as required.
• Manage own specialist wound care caseload and work autonomously within Trust policies; maintain accurate and up-to-date records.

Descrição da oferta de emprego

• To act as specialist podiatrist in wound care in a variety of settings e.g. community health centres, patients own homes and acute hospital sites.
• Determine a clinical diagnosis, develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes and/or provide specialist advice, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.
• The post holder will support the delivery of the wound care service and contribute to evolving and embedding best practice into the clinical area., To manage own specialist wound care caseload and work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up to date records.
• To carry out specialist assessment and treatment of podiatry patients, facilitating safe and timely discharges and transfer of care as appropriate.
• To determine a clinical diagnosis, develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes and/or provide specialist advice, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.
• To take part in the education and training of podiatrists and qualified and non-qualified healthcare / social services / education staff including medical staff.
• To support the Team Leader in the day to day running of the Podiatry Service.
• To support and advise within the wider MDT on the delivery of the service
  We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services. We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza. We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community. Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.