To be responsible for the assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of podiatric care for patients within a caseload of diabetes and tissue viability patients To provide appropriate podiatric health education to patients and carers To ensure that all interventions are designed using, where possible, evidence based practice and to evaluate outcomes To work across acute, community and primary health care sectors as part of a multidisciplinary team with direct input to patient care providing advice to patients and carers To be responsible for the maintenance of their own documentation for patient records, reports and audits. Assist in the collection of data for National Diabetes audits including DiabeticFoot audit and devise local audits to determine impact of the Inpatient Podiatrist role and areas for improvement in delivering the pathway ofcare/education requirements etc. Involvement in route cause analysis ofmajor amputations undertaken.