King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
To provide highly specialised podiatric care for patients attending the Diabetic Foot Clinic. The Diabetic Foot Clinic is a podiatry-led, multidisciplinary, tertiary referral unit, which provides expert specialist foot care, advanced assessment and diagnostic techniques for high-risk patients with complex foot pathologies resulting from the complications of diabetes. This role is an opportunity to broaden and apply further specialist knowledge and skills within the MDT.
The post holder will be expected to actively contribute as part of the multidisciplinary team including vascular and orthopaedic clinics. As such, the post holder is also an educator to patients and their carers, other health care professionals including medical, surgical, podiatric, nursing, physiotherapy and social services and other staff when appropriate.
The post holder will be expected to promote the role and scope of podiatry, locally, nationally and internationally.
Main duties of the job
The Mike Edmonds Foot Unit provides "Gold Standard" foot care for those patients attending with complex foot care needs associated with their diabetes.
The podiatrists within this department work as "The Gatekeepers" to ensure the patients are provided with the expert care necessary for successful patient outcomes.
Working within the multidisciplinary team provides not only expert care for patients but an opportunity for podiatrists to learn from their podiatry colleagues.
In addition, they will also learn from diabetes, vascular, orthopaedic, nursing and orthotic colleagues as there are multidisciplinary foot clinics occurring every day.
About us
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.
King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King's to another level.
Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
* Maintain standards of conduct required by the HCPC to practice.
* Act as a role model and clinical expert within diabetic foot management, promoting and demonstrating first class care through evidence based practice and research.
* Take a lead on clinical care by independently managing a patient caseload trust wide with support from the multidisciplinary team.
* Ensure that where appropriate each patient has a comprehensive wound assessment undertaken and is referred to the appropriate speciality.
* To become expert in the use of offloading techniques including total contact casting, scotch cast boots, slipper casts and bedside orthotic.
* Support the MDT by facilitating the booking of investigations and interpretation of results.
* Act as an expert in the use of specific treatments and advanced wound techniques including sharp debridement of wounds, vac & larvae therapy.
* Provide advice on the most appropriate pressure relieving devices for specific conditions including liaison with the orthotics department for appropriate footwear provision.
* Carry out measurements of transcutaneous oxygen tension pre and post angioplasty and post by-pass surgery.
* Run early discharge clinics for complex patients in order to reduce length of stay for inpatients.
* Attend weekly angiography meetings and present diabetic foot patients' medical history and feedback results to MDT.
* Identify areas of poor practice and respond appropriately ensuring the delivery of safe and effective practice.
* Work closely with PCTs, Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist and podiatry services to ensure continuity of care.
* Management aim for each podiatrist is to achieve the assessment, management and treatment of at least 8 complex patients attending the foot unit when in clinic per day.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree in Podiatry.
* HCPC Registration.
Knowledge and Experience
* Evidence of significant post Graduate experience.
* Identify Acute and Chronic Charcot Foot presentation.
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.
Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 a year (Per annum incl HCA)
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