Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHCT) Community Podiatry Services are looking for a highly motivated, proactive and focused qualified Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) registered Specialist Podiatrist to join their department. Essential qualifications required to apply are: Diploma/ Degree in Podiatric Medicine, HPC registration, local anaesthetic certificate, computer literate and an understanding of pathways of care.
To assess, diagnose, treat and evaluate abnormalities and diseases related to the foot and lower limb in people of all ages. provide treatment for high-risk patient groups such as the elderly and those with increased risk of amputation.
To provide high quality support to others in the team and work into wider MDTs to the benefit of patients.
You will be joining a highly motivated and friendly professional team. Duties will include delivering evidence-based podiatry within clinics, GP surgeries, hospitals, patient’s homes and nursing homes. The post covers Alnwick and other sites in the North locality area.
To be a strong candidate we are looking for a Specialist Podiatrist able to integrate into multidisciplinary teams, function within a supportive peer group and display the strength of character to work autonomously. There is a requirement to support and develop others including podiatry students and other professions, podiatry assistants and newly qualified staff.
This is a full time position but consideration will be given to anyone looking for part time work or job share.
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
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To work as part of a highly motivated team, with NHS post-registration experience and/or having completed a band 6 competency based programme. The job entails autonomous working without supervision across community and acute settings providing a high standard of quality clinical care.
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.
The post holder will provide professional, quality planned programmes of podiatry care to a specified caseload of patients based on their clinical needs and provide specialist care in order to maintain mobility, independence, tissue viability and to relieve discomfort especially for those patients with diabetes, circulatory disorders, neuropathy, rheumatoid arthritis and biomechanical pathologies.
The post-holder must be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, acting as a source of professional advice to patients, carers, GPs and other healthcare professionals and will be expected to contribute to the development of the Podiatry Department and to adhere to Trust and Departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
This advert closes on Sunday 10 Nov 2024
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