Senior Practitioner

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, flexible and highly motivated Podiatrist to join our Podiatry Team in Trafford.

The post holder will have responsibility along with other Senior Practitioners within the team for the organisation and day to day provision of the community and high-risk Podiatry Service. They will demonstrate excellent clinical and operational leadership skills to podiatry colleagues. They will provide line management to the team and support the Service Lead to ensure the safe and effective delivery of the podiatry service.

They will manage a clinical case load of High Risk patients and have advanced skills and knowledge to implement, evaluate and modify highly complex care and interventions. The caseload will include patients with the complications of diabetes, peripheral arterial disease and connective tissue disorders and a significant proportion of the case load will be focused on advanced foot ulcer management.

To provide clinical and operational leadership for the High Risk and Community Podiatry team to ensure the safe delivery of the day to day provision of the Podiatry service.

To provide support and guidance to colleagues to assure that work is carried out in a multi-disciplinary way to promote the needs of clients and patients.

The post holder will support the Podiatry Service Lead and other Senior Practitioners, to ensure that governance systems and processes are adhered to and delivered.

This role requires team lead and line management duties.

To manage a clinical case load of patients and have demonstrable skills to implement, evaluate and modify highly complex care and interventions. The caseload will include patients with the complications of diabetes, peripheral arterial disease and connective tissue disorders (not an exhaustive list) with a focus on advanced foot ulcer management.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

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We’re looking forward to hearing from you