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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Podiatrist to join our team at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. As a Specialist MSK Podiatrist, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality musculoskeletal and biomechanics care to our patients in Milton Keynes.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in podiatry, with experience in treating a wide range of musculoskeletal and biomechanical conditions. You will be responsible for assessing, diagnosing, and developing individualized treatment plans for patients with complex health needs.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Podiatrist to transition into a Specialist MSK Band 6 role, with structured and mentored competencies. You will work closely with our team to provide specialist care for high-risk patients and those with MSK, diabetic, rheumatoid, and biomechanical problems.

• To adopt a problem-solving approach and develop, advise on, support, and encourage shared decision-making, gaining consent, and enact an integrated management plan that considers investigations, interventions, and therapy options or support packages, negotiating on agreed outcomes based upon clinical evidence and patients' needs and informed preferences.
• To undertake functional gait assessment.
• To follow through agreed treatment plans with an end result of improved foot and ankle pathology and develop discharge plans with each individual where appropriate.
• To prescribe, manufacture, and fit chairside, functional, or accommodative devices and refer for shoe adaptations when clinically indicated.
• Develop an understanding of assessment techniques respective validity, reliability, specificity, and sensitivity and the implications of these limitations within an assessment.
• To be responsible for the maintenance of timely, accurate, comprehensive patient notes that reflect the interventions delivered.
• To comply with health and safety requirements.
• To communicate and educate patients as part of their care, involving them in decisions on their care.
• To liaise with voluntary and statutory bodies when necessary to ensure that patients' needs are addressed. To be aware of safeguarding (adults and children).
• To take an active role in supporting and delivering Health Promotion events within the Service, including promoting the department's services to other healthcare professionals to ensure appropriate patients are referred to the service.

• BSc Degree in Podiatry/Podiatric Medicine with local anaesthesia.
• Registration with the Health Professions Council.
• Hold a Certificate in local anaesthesia.

• Experience of work in the NHS.
• Experience of treating Biomechanical/MSK related foot conditions.
• Experience of treating a varied caseload of podiatry patients, including those with high-risk conditions.
• Experience of foot orthotic manufacture.

We are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive work environment that promotes professional growth and development. As an NHS Trust, we prioritize patient safety and well-being, and we expect all our staff to share these values.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from diverse candidates. If you are passionate about delivering high-quality patient care and are committed to excellence, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.