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**About Us**:
The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC works with general practice and other healthcare providers in Hillingdon to deliver high quality clinical services to patients. Our aim is to improve care for patients by working collaboratively across primary care and our partners as part of the Integrated Care Partnership. The Confederation team also work to develop and support individual GP practices, PCNs and Neighbourhoods and their changing needs. We are of the NHS but independent, innovative and transformational.
General capacity across primary care is being expanded rapidly. The Confederation is determined to develop as an attractive place to work that provides rewarding roles and opportunities to grow in order to attract and retain great staff that in turn provides the highest quality care.
**Our Values**:
**Job Summary**:
We have a new and exciting opportunity in The Confederation for a highly qualified and experienced Podiatrist. This post requires a podiatrist that is confident to assess, diagnose, treat and evaluate all abnormalities and diseases relating to the foot and lower limbs. Join our Primary Care Network and assist in re-shaping our communities and supporting our GP practices to provide high quality patient care and enhancing patient experience through providing excellent clinical effectiveness in a safe environment.
The role entails working with a variety of patients and may provide non-prescription medication for minor conditions, across multiple sites, in the community and patients homes. The post holder will work autonomously as part of a multi-disciplinary team and motivated PCN team providing a high standard of clinical care. We require the post holder to be experienced in working collaboratively alongside a range of health and social care professionals in supporting patient health with strong interpersonal and communication patient facing skills.
**Primary Responsibilities**
- Work as part of a PCNs multi-disciplinary team to clinically assess, treat, and manage a caseload of patients of all ages with lower limb conditions and foot pathologies, using their expert knowledge of podiatry for specific conditions and topics;
- Provide a high standard of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and delivery of lower limb musculoskeletal care.
- Utilise and provide guidance to patients on equipment such as surgical instruments, dressings, treatment tables and orthotics;
- Examine and assess complex patients using highly specialised clinical reasoning skills to select and provide highly specialised forms of treatment from a wide range of options.
- Work with clinicians, multi-disciplinary team (MDT) colleagues and external agencies to ensure the smooth transition of patients discharged from hospital back into primary care.
- Liaise with PCN MDT, community and secondary care staff, and named clinicians to arrange further investigations and onward referrals.
- Develop, implement and evaluate a seamless nutrition support service across the PCN, working with community and secondary care where appropriate, and aimed at continuously improving standards of patient care and multi-disciplinary team working,
- Communicate outcomes and integrate findings into their own and wider service practice and pathway development.
- Utilise and provide guidance to patients on equipment such as surgical instruments, dressings, treatment tables, and orthotics.
- Deliver foot health education to patients;
- Prescribe and arrange for the provision of podiatry orthotics, pressure relieving insoles and shoe modifications where appropriate.
- Utilise highly specialist skills in biomechanics to prescribe, modify and fit orthoses.
- Provide triage service for patients who may require prescription footwear liaising with surgical appliances and where necessary conferencing on complex cases.
- Provide assessment of new patients with the subsequent production of individual care packages and the provision of appropriate foot health education advice.
- Provide specialist treatment and support for high-risk patient groups such as the elderly and those with increased risk of amputation.
- Support patients through the use of therapeutic and surgical techniques to treat foot and lower leg issues (e.g. carrying out nail and soft tissue surgery using local anesthetic), while also delivering foot health education to patients.
- Be actively involved in the design and implementation of research and audit in order to evaluate and identify opportunities to develop the podiatry service.
- Be responsible for the monitoring of podiatry clinical activity and for producing reports as required to follow uni-and multi-professional guidelines for evidence-based practice in the care of patients with musculoskeletal pathologies and who are at risk as a result of chronic disease.
- Implement all aspects of effective clinical governance for their own practice, including undertaking regular audit and evaluation, supervision, and training.
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