Main area Band 7 Care Pathway Lead Grade NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract Permanent: Must include working on a Monday. Hours Part time - 18.75 hours per week Job ref 395-WF255-24
Employer NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Redbridge & Waltham Forest Town Chigwell Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum, plus HCAS (Pro Rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 24/03/2025 23:59
Care Pathway Lead for Nail Surgery
NHS AfC: Band 7
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
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.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our team for a Care Pathway Lead for Nail Surgery to join our friendly, supportive Podiatry Team.
Our Podiatry Department is a forward thinking, busy service providing Podiatry Services to the GP population in Redbridge & Waltham Forest. The population that we serve are both multi-cultural and diverse.
Our Podiatry Care Pathway Leads are highly experienced, valuable members of the team with expert knowledge in their field. They are responsible for the speciality service that they lead including responsibility and organisation of effective care pathways as well as the day-to-day operational management and supervision of designated clinicians.
Your clinical work would be across an array of community & domiciliary settings across these boroughs, and a car driver is therefore essential to this role.
Main duties of the job
* Take clinical responsibility for care pathways, organising effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and ensuring that treatment/information is provided within the required AHP waiting times. Highlighting solutions to capacity concerns and proactively advising the service lead on solutions to manage demand.
* Provide operational and clinical leadership for the care pathway and responsibility for educating colleagues and junior staff and will be the main contact for expert advice and support for junior staff in the team.
* Take lead responsibility for delivering high quality, timely, accessible, and evidence-based services for patients as part of the clinical pathway.
* Undertake a high-risk clinical role according to current priority/demand on the service including comprehensive advanced assessment and treatment of patients with multiple pathologies, formulating treatment plans based on clinical findings.
* Establish and implement systems and structures for effective monitoring of quality and service audit. Encouraging departmental clinical audit and research in specialist areas.
* Act as a lead clinical specialist for nail surgery and wound care in community.
Person specification
Qualifications
* BSc Diploma/Degree in Podiatric Medicine
* Certificate in the administration of Local Anaesthesia
* Prescription only medicines certificate
* Registration with HCPC
* Evidence of Continual Professional Development
* Evidence of post-graduate training to masters level or equivalent experience
* Supplementary Prescribing – working towards independent prescribing
Experience
* Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the area of specialism
* Experience of communicating across internal and external boundaries
* Experience of governance, quality and audit
* Experience of multi-agency working
* Experience and Knowledge of commissioning
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
* Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
* Excellent organisational and clinical skills
* Commitment to own development
Other
* To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
* Applicant will need to be a car driver with valid UK Licence (this criteria will be reasonably adjusted to meet the requirements of a disabled applicant) and access to a car for work purposes
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.
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