This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Podiatrist in Diabetic Foot Care to join our combined Podiatry North / Brighton & Hove locality teams on a permanent basis. The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership in diabetic foot care across the localities, though most of the clinical activity will be in the North locality. This post offers the chance for someone to develop their clinical and leadership skills by providing a high level of foot care to the community while offering supervision and mentorship to colleagues.
Main duties of the job
The Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist provides an advanced level of clinical and professional leadership across the Podiatry North / Brighton & Hove localities and to provide specialist clinical advice to colleagues regarding complex patients who will primarily present in the North locality.
They will work with the Professional Lead to ensure staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered.
The Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist will work with the Operational Team Leads and the Clinical Services Manager to develop key partnerships and to ensure services continue to develop in line with Trust transformation programmes and the SCFT Clinical Strategy.
The post holder will be supported in their development where needed and appropriate training will be available.
Job responsibilities
The Clinical Specialist Podiatrist (Diabetes) will:
1. Act as a recognised expert podiatric resource for specialised clinical advice to patients, peers and other medical staff including Consultants and General Practitioners.
2. Ensure professional standards are maintained in accordance with CORU, The College of Podiatry (UK) Guidelines on Minimum Standards of Clinical Practice for Podiatry.
3. Treat and manage the acute diabetic foot within the community for those with active diabetes foot disease.
4. Undertake specialist podiatry treatments and interventions as appropriate to the grade, skills and competencies in the community setting.
5. Provide standardised high-quality diabetes foot management to patients with active foot disease /in remission foot.
Person Specification
Experience
* Significant postgraduate experience and expert clinician able to demonstrate credibility.
* Relevant managerial experience and significant experience of supervision provision.
* Significant experience of working in the clinical setting and providing clinical leadership to a team.
* Experience of managing a multi-professional team/collaborative working.
* Experience of delivering quality improvement and productivity.
Qualifications and/or Professional qualification
* Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in podiatry.
* Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a podiatrist.
* Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses/CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical specialty.
* Post Registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent and experience.
Skills & Knowledge
* Demonstrate expertise within clinical area underpinned by theory and significant experience.
* Excellent leadership and ability to empower others in practice.
* IT skills, with the ability to use a number of databases, excel, word and internet.
* Excellent written communication skills with an ability to negotiate and manage conflict.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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