Main area: Chiropody/Podiatry
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (pro rata)
Job ref: 351-CEN1160-MS
Site: Chorley Health Centre
Town: Chorley
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/01/2025 23:59
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, and community-based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability, and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
* Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults.
* Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism.
* Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The post holder will work as part of a highly motivated podiatry team, providing high-quality treatments for patients referred into the service for assessment and intervention. The post lends itself to experienced and newly qualified Podiatrists. All staff will work towards completing a competency framework and newly qualified graduates will also be inducted onto the preceptorship programme.
You will be expected to take responsibility for the assessment and treatment of a caseload of patients, which includes some complex cases, as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate supervision, evidencing high-level problem solving and reasoning skills and independence of judgment.
Post holders will be responsible for the delivery, evaluation, and discharge of patients, routine podiatry, wound care, nail surgery, and some biomechanical work for patients in their own homes or in various community locations. Provide direct support and development of podiatrists and assistants via knowledge sharing and supervision to ensure competency within the podiatry workforce.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to promote health and reduce inequalities for individuals, families, and communities, optimise opportunities for health promotion and health education to enable patients to maximise their potential in terms of health and social well-being. Using motivational interviewing and negotiation skills where appropriate and to make referrals as appropriate into the behaviour change support services.
To work as an autonomous podiatrist, providing a high standard of evidenced-based assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and advice to patients and carers.
For newly qualified graduates, a structural mentorship and preceptorship programme will be implemented and reviewed as part of the ongoing Personal Development Review process.
* To support the leadership within the team, to ensure high standards of patient care are maintained.
* To actively promote teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence, and compassion within a clinical team in accordance with the Trust values and code of conduct.
* To support implementation on work aimed at service improvement.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent in Podiatric Medicine.
* Current professional registration with HCPC as Podiatrist.
* Certificate in Local analgesic / and or POM as recommended by HCPC.
* Accredited field work educator or willingness to undertake depending on post-grad work experience.
Knowledge
* Understanding of clinical governance framework and implications for practice.
* Understanding of current NICE guidelines where applicable to practice.
* Knowledge and appreciation of lone working risks – policy and procedure.
Experience
* Treatment of a broad range of podiatric conditions including non-complex nail surgery, biomechanics, and low-level wound care.
* Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing practice.
* Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working.
Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. Ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.
LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such, this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
For more information, please contact:
James Brown & Katherine Griffiths
Podiatry Team Co-ordinator
Community and Well-being service on 01772 777320
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