Podiatrist

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
There is an exciting opportunity for 2 podiatrists to join the friendly community Oldham Podiatry Team. Domiciliary visits are provided with a strict access criteria. The team is innovative and always striving to improve the service and our patients feedback is extremely important.

The team offers a person-centred approach to improve patients independence and wellbeing and go the extra mile to ensure compassionate and personalised patient care. In return you will join a supportive team environment and be provided with many personal development opportunities.

If you are enthusiastic and looking for a new opportunity this may be the ideal position for you.

**Main duties of the job**:

- Have your own caseload both clinical and domiciliary with peer support from a mixed skillset in the team.
- Maintain a high standard of clinical work when carrying out podiatry procedures
- Have good communication skills with patients carers and colleagues and other healthcare professionals and support patient in getting better health outcomes
- Rotate into different clinical pathways for variation once familiarised with systems and processes.
- Ensure compliance in clinical governance framework.
- Ensure compliance in mandatory and CPD training
- Partake in appraisal with your line manager with realistic yearly objectives for yourself

**Please contact Sandra Barnett/Debra Drury 0161 357 5113 to arrange an informal visit and or Shadowing.**

**Working for our organisation**:
Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Registration**:
**Essential criteria**:

- HCPC Registered Podiatrist

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- State registered podiatry diploma or degree equivalent in podiatry
- Certificate local anaesthetic

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of working within the NHS
- Good IT skills with working knowledge microsoft office or equivalent
- Excellent communication skills and liase with wide range of people in professional manner
- Organisation and time management skills
- Evidence of professional development in professional field
- Understanding of health and social care landscape in Greater Manchester
- Willingness to acquire new skills and knowledge and undertake further training
- Ability to coordinate and organise work short,medium and longterm basis

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**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.