Specialist Diabetes Podiatrist

Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHCT) Diabetes Specialist Podiatry services are looking for a highly motivated Podiatrist to join their department to be part of the multidisciplinary specialist foot team.

The successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the Trust.
- As a team member your duties will include delivering highly specialised clinical care for people with diabetes within clinics, GP surgeries, hospitals, patient’s homes and residential homes. Personal qualities required include excellent organisation skills, personal time management and flexibility within your working practice to support the podiatry team.
- To be a diabetes foot specialist, acting as a resource and providing specialist advice and training for the multidisciplinary foot team and other healthcare professionals within the primary healthcare team.
- To prescribe and implement care plans for people with diabetes by assigning individual risk stratification to provide the appropriate package of care to fulfil national guidelines.
- To be responsible for the planning and management of specialised case loads involving the implementation and coordination of specialised treatment regimes working in a variety of settings e.g. acute, community and GP practices.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
- To work as an integral part of the diabetes multi-disciplinary team providing a high standard of clinical care in highly specialised areas and having at least 2 years post NHS registration.
- To act as a diabetes foot specialist, acting as a resource and providing specialist podiatry advice and training for the multi-disciplinary team and other health professionals within the primary healthcare team GP practices.
- To prescribe and implement care plans for people with diabetes by assigning individual risk stratification to provide the appropriate package of care to fulfil national guidelines.
- To be responsible for the planning and management of specialised case loads involving the implementation and coordination of specialised treatment regimes working in a variety of settings e.g. acute, community and GP practices.
- To be responsible for the development of and adhere to the podiatry department and Trust’s policies, strategies and objectives.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.