Specialist Podiatrist

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The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

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Job overview

Specialist Podiatrist

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and innovative team player to join our friendly Podiatry team (@Nelft_Podiatry on Twitter) within NELFT. 

Our Podiatry Department provides services to a high risk, multi-cultural population across the London boroughs of Waltham Forest & Redbridge.

Our friendly Podiatry Service pride themselves on their close working together as a very friendly and approachable close-knit team with effective communication.

Main duties of the job

Your clinical work would be across an array of community & domiciliary settings across these boroughs, and a car is therefore essential to this role .

You would be responsible for treatment planning for foot complications associated with diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and vascular / ischaemic long-term conditions and would be part of the team treating foot ulceration in the community.

As a department we pride ourselves on being innovative and forward thinking and have MolecuLight i:X technology & Toe Pressure kits available across our wound care clinics. 

We are committed to CPD and training initiatives to achieve personal as well as service objectives and there are opportunities to rotate into our Biomechanics and Nail Surgery Teams, and specialise.

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Personal Specification for full details.

Working for our organisation

COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement – London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This vacancy would suit a qualified Podiatrist who has worked within the NHS environment for at least a year and enjoys rising to these challenges.

We are a high risk service, so the appropriate podiatry skills are required for the high-risk foot.

A Band 6 Specialist Podiatrist is responsible for providing programmes of clinical podiatric care to high-risk patients with a variety of podiatric needs in the community, hospital and domiciliary setting and will have autonomous responsibility for the specialist assessment of patients including those with multiple pathologies using clinical reasoning skills and diagnostic techniques. Evaluating the patient’s progress and altering care plans if required.

Care is provided into the specialist areas of the service as required eg, diabetes, biomechanics, nail surgery, wound care. 

As a department we pride ourselves on being innovative and forward thinking and have MolecuLight:iX technology as well as Toe Pressure Kits in all of our high risk clinics to undertake the recently highlighted '2 minute Toe Pressure challenge'.

We have an MDFT at Whipps Cross Hospital and also work closely with the Podiatry team (part of an MDFT) based at The Royal London & St Bartholomew Hospitals, which has provided fantastic shadowing & learning opportunities.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

BSc Diploma/Degree in Podiatric Medicine Evidence of continual Professional Development Evidence of post graduate training or equivalent experience Registration with HCPC Prescription only medicines certificate (included in BSc degree from 2001) Certificate in Local Anaesthesia (included in BSc degree)

Experience

Essential criteria

Minimum of 1 year working in the community as a podiatrist Experience of communicating across internal and external boundaries Experience of governance , quality and audit Experience of multi-agency working

Knowledge

Essential criteria

An awareness of NHS priorities

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of current NHS strategy , and clinical governance priorities

Skills

Essential criteria

Basic awareness of IT and IT skills Enthusiasm, integrity, confident, positive attitude Commitment to own development Excellent communication skills Excellent organisational and clinical skills Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team Ability to balance competing priorities to meet personal and directorate targets within a fluctuating and demanding workload

Other

Essential criteria

Applicant will need to be car driver with valid UK Licence (this criteria will be reasonable adjusted to meet the requirements of a disabled applicant) and access to a car for work purposes. As they will need to travel throughout the area and provide podiatry for a domiciliary high risk caseload To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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