Podiatry Team Leader and Diabetes Podiatrist

5 days ago

Epsom Surrey, United Kingdom Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Surrey Downs Health & Care
This role will give you the chance to develop an existing musculoskeletal Podiatry service, bring about some innovative changes and strengthen existing relationships with partners across Surrey Downs Health & Care.
You will be supported by a forward thinking and experienced team of podiatrists who are based mainly in a community setting.
To provide a highly effective, comprehensive foot health service for the population of Surrey Downs area.
This role will include strengthening our collaborative working across Surrey Downs Health & care, transforming how the musculoskeletal service operates.
This will include supporting Podiatry colleagues with their treatment plans and acting as a source of advice.
The role will include line management of Podiatry colleagues and close working with the other Podiatry leads. This will include working on established projects and supporting the Podiatry Clinical Lead with day to day service requirements. The post holder will also continue with a clinical caseload in both clinic and home visits.
We welcome applications from Podiatrists without any previous Band 7 experience who are looking to progress in their career and are enthusiastic for transforming and improving care. Line management training and support will be given.
Surrey Downs Health and Care (SDHC) deliver care closer to people's own communities through our Primary Care Networks and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centric care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
We collectively aspire to be an exemplar of how to deliver the highest quality and best value care in a complex health and care environment.
To act as a source of clinical expertise and be the clinical lead for biomechanics within the Podiatry service, ensuring an effective, co-ordinated podiatry service is provided throughout the area and to GP practices.
Provide highly specialist diagnostic assessment, treatment and advice, including gait analysis and provision of orthotics to maintain and improve patients mobility and independence and prevention of disability.
To undertake training of podiatry students, help colleagues maintain and develop their clinical skills in biomechanics, and educate other health care professionals on the role of biomechanics.
To work as an integral member of the Podiatry Team to deliver high quality and responsive programmes of Podiatric care to patients who have a high risk need.
To provide early intervention whenever possible, to maintain mobility and independence, and prevent disability.
To use complex orthopaedic assessments, diagnose, develop highly specialised treatment plans and provide effective podiatric treatments, using a problem solving approach based on clinical need and evidence based practice. This is predominantly with patients with complex medical conditions such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, vascular insufficiencies, physical or other disabilities, children, people with sports injuries and other vulnerable groups.
To be responsible for a highly complex and specialised caseload involving the implementation and co-ordination of highly specialised treatment regimens involving the assessment, prescription, manufacture and evaluation of a wide range of orthotic devices, advanced casting techniques and management programmes.
To commit to the philosophy of care with an emphasis on patient empowerment and independence by providing education and information to help patients manage their own foot needs (including footwear advice).
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team with Consultants, GPs, Orthotist, & Allied Health Professionals and acting as a source of advice to patients, carers, GPs and other health care professionals.
To be responsible for a highly complex and specialised caseload involving the implementation and co-ordination of highly specialised treatment regimens involving the holistic management of the At Risk foot.
To be highly proficient in: comprehensive neurological and vascular assessment, wound debridement, advanced pathology, and gait analysis.
Doppler ultrasound. Also to request diagnostic procedures such as X-Ray and MRI scans, competently interpreting, recording, acting on and reporting the results.
To provide services at a wide variety of sites including a patients home, clinics, GP practices, hospitals (including ward rounds) and in challenging conditions, frequently working in isolation.
To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload seeking guidance as appropriate.
The post holder will be responsible for carrying out a thorough medical assessment to ensure suitability of local anaesthesia and minor surgery.
To undertake specialist surgical intervention for complex nail pathologies, for example nail avulsions and chemical destruction of the nail matrix with local anaesthesia.
This includes booking appointments and clinical time management skills.
To update patients medical history, evaluate progression and work with the client to develop their treatment plan as required.
To teach and assess colleagues, students, newly qualified podiatrists and podiatry assistants.
Podiatry Degree
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