Specialist Podiatrist Long Term

Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust's values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

• BSc Degree in Podiatric Medicine or equivalent.
• Evidence of continual professional and personal development portfolio, including postgraduate course attendance
• Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) with annotations POM-A, POM-S, and Independent Prescriber (or willingness to train).

• Ionising radiation (medical exposure) regulations certificate- IR(ME)
  R and proficient in using PACS.
• Training in requesting and interpretation of investigations relevant to foot complications
• Education in advanced podiatric practice such as MSc in Podiatric Medicine or equivalent.
• Leadership qualification/course.

• Substantive experience of working at a band 6 level or above.
• Experience of case management of a high risk caseload: leadership of a Vascular and or Woundcare patient pathway.
• Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency working.
• Experience of clinical supervision, and leading, teaching & mentoring others
• Experience of continuous quality improvement, clinical pathway improvement, & service development
• Knowledge of audit and risk assessment.
• Understand and apply principles of Clinical Governance within the 3 domains of quality.
• Understand equality and diversity and its implications in care provision.

• Experience of working in a fast-paced NHS environment and managing competing demands.
• Experience of line management of others, including sickness absence management.
• Practical application of National high risk foot and lower limb prevention strategies, including The National Woundcare Strategy Programme

• Ability to professionally process safeguarding and distressing or uncomfortable situations, e.g. terminally ill patients, recognise report abuse of others, providing guidance to team members where appropriate.
• Ability to analyse patients concerns, their needs, and propose a range of effective solutions with adaptive communication styles
• Ability to undertake sustained intricate work in using sensitive diagnostic tools and a range of surgical instruments, for example the management and debridement of tissue viability/wounds etc.
• Ability to apply biomechanics knowledge to a wound care setting, for example offloading, casting etc.
• Adaptability to a variety of working environments including the patients own homes if required.
• Ability to cope with sometimes distressing settings and work tasks including wound care, necrotic tissue, neglected pathology and exposure to malodour, body fluids including blood and wound exudate.
• Ability to reflect on own practice as well as seek and accept feedback.
• Passion for own and professional progression, forward thinking and innovative
• Ability to understand, appreciate and articulate implications of data, and apply the learning to staff rota management and job planning, directing others as required.

• Planning, organising, and chairing team meetings.
• Development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures.
• Experience of the review and updating of clinical systems templates.
• Ability to understand business continuity plans.
• Experience of implementation of Patient Group Directives to improve patient care pathways

• Able to communicate with respect, and discuss successfully, topics of conversation that can be challenging in planning patient care and through staff management.
• Ability to cope with a busy demanding and varied workloads
• Able to cope with the demands of moving between sessional clinics. This may include carriage of clinical equipment.
• Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
• Performing clinical treatments in physically restricted work positions requiring repetitive fine movements.

• Ability to appreciate, empathise and be sympathetic to challenging and difficult situations and help manage them with professionalism and maturity.

We review all applications carefully to ensure fairness and verify references. At interview, you will be…