Do you want to make a tangible difference to people's lives, with the best of London on your doorstep?
Site: Parson Green Health Centre, Town: London
Salary: £54,320 - £60,981 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
This is a wonderful opportunity for a clinical specialist podiatrist to join the award winning CLCH Practice Development Allied Health Professional team. We are looking for a podiatrist who has a passion for developing both the registered and non-registered podiatry workforce through embedding quality improvement in practice.
The Practice Development roles focus on the four pillars of practice – clinical, education, leadership and research.
Ideally, the candidate we are looking for would have experience in adult and children’s podiatry community pathways of care.
CLCH has a robust professional and clinical leadership structure to support the role. The post holder will be part of practice development AHP and nursing community, supervised by the AHP Practice Educator Lead and professionally supported by the Strategic AHP Leadership Team. The role is based at the CLCH Academy in Central London and involves working Trust-wide where podiatry services are offered in all clinical divisions.
We welcome applications from Clinical Podiatrists and highly recommend an informal visit and conversation with Denise Meredith, AHP Practice Educator Lead to discuss the role in more detail.
Main duties of the job
1. Ensuring quality and range of learning and development opportunities for all bands of clinical staff within the registered and non-podiatry workforce to ensure safe and effective patient care and practice.
2. Support and facilitate the development of podiatry clinical practice through ensuring appropriate support mechanisms with supervision, direct observations of practice competency frameworks and learning contracts are being implemented.
3. Develop, co-ordinate, provide and evaluate training programmes and development activities for all registered and unregistered podiatry clinical staff.
4. Develop strategies which enhance podiatry staff recruitment, career development workforce objectives and staff satisfaction.
5. Promote and role model high standards of care through the demonstration of clinical expertise and quality improvement.
6. Role model and facilitate a positive learning environment in the workplace where staff development is encouraged and supported.
7. Facilitate induction, education and continuing professional development for all levels of registered and non-registered podiatry staff within the division, profession and/or specialty.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
* A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role.
* Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply.
* Flexible working options.
* Training, support and development in your career.
The salary in the advert reflects the pay increase for 2024-2025. Please be advised that this increase will not come into effect until October 2024 when any monies owed will be back paid.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To work with the Academy team, AHP Lead, Chief AHP, Professional AHPs and Clinical Leads to identify specific training needs and plan programmes to ensure staff are competent and have the right skills to undertake their roles.
2. To work with the Academy team, AHP Clinical Practice & Education Lead, Chief AHP, Lead AHP, clinical teams, Heads of Clinical Services (HOCS), Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies (DDNTs) as an ambassador for practice development.
3. To support Professional AHP Leads, DDNTs and Clinical Leads in planning, implementing, and evaluating practice changes in line with evidence and best practice.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Registered HCPC Podiatrist
* Educated to degree level or equivalent
* Clinical Leadership training
* Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
* Educated to Master’s degree level or equivalent
* Teaching Qualification
Experience
* Significant senior experience within community services
* Experience in taking forward clinical and service change
* Experience of working in a changing and uncertain environment.
* Experience of delivering on practice development initiatives and leading change with individuals and teams.
* Experience of working with staff and stakeholders at all levels.
* Experience of using evidence to inform best practice
* Experience of engaging with patients, the public and stakeholders
* Experience of report writing and presentation
* Experience of leading quality improvement initiatives
Skills & Knowledge
* Knowledge of the national priorities relating to provision of community services
* Skills in articulating a vision to staff working at different levels
* Knowledge of practice development, quality improvement and change management.
* Knowledge of the NHS agenda of how it impacts on service delivery
* Ability to think strategically. Develop and deliver strategies and plans.
* Ability to implement and evaluate successful change programmes.
* Leadership skills, relationship building skills and influencing skills.
* Ability to focus on key priorities and to sustain momentum to achieve desired results.
* Integrates organisational vision and values as way of working.
* Ability to inspire and build a strong team focused on achieving results.
* Aware of the equalities and diversity agenda.
* Ability to thrive in a changing environment and to focus on opportunities to generate new ideas.
* Ability to organise and utilise resources to achieve value for money.
* Ability to prioritise and manage workload to meet competing demands and priorities.
* Ability to work in a pressure environment and keep calm in challenging situations.
* Able to work as an effective team member.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
* Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
* Race Equality Network
* Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Denise Meredith, Job title: AHP Clinical Education and Practice Lead, Email address: denisemeredith@nhs.net, Telephone number: 07968524551
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