Bank Podiatrist Band 6

We are looking to recruit podiatrists for our community podiatry teams to work on a bank basis.

The postholder will be part of a highly skilled and motivated team working autonomously but with support of senior clinicians.

You will be working in a community setting providing a high standards of quality clinical care and excellent customer service.

The clinician must have one year of clinical experience post graduation with a proven record of clinical competencies and ongoing CPD.

You will assess, diagnose, develop, and implement personalised care plans for patients with a wide variety of complex clinical needs. You will be expected to plan and manage your own case load, be punctual and reliable.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required for this role.

The community teams provide specialist care in Diabetes and Wound Care, MSK, Podiatric Surgery and nail surgery.

You will be expected to travel across Greenwich and Bexley to work including home visits. Therefore is it essential that you are a care driver/ owner.

To provide assessment and the full range of podiatry treatments to clients in community and outreach clinics, hospital, clients home, Health Centres, Care Homes and Day Centres. This will include wound dressings, scalpel debridement of nail & soft tissue pathology & care of foot problems resulting from neglect & lack of self-care.

To work as an autonomous practitioner, developing & agreeing treatment plans individually with clients. Support from senior staff is provided.

To be responsible for protection of health and wellbeing of all clients. Alert others to concerns where protection may be required for both children and vulnerable adults.

To appropriately refer clients to specialist teams within the department whenever needed (for nail surgery, biomechanical assessment etc.) and appropriately refer clients within primary care, Community or Acute for investigation, diagnosis or treatment.

Dealing sensitively and appropriately with a client caseload with complex health needs, assisting individuals to manage their health needs effectively.

To work within primary, secondary and community care teams to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to improvement of foot pathology.

Always aiming to achieve with each client maximum independence through self-care and effective client management.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

Qualifications

Essential: - HCPC Registered Podiatrist; - BSc (Hons) Podiatry

Desirable: - Post graduate qualifications in relevant area

Training and Experience

Essential: - Worked as a band 5 podiatrist for a minimum of 12 months; - Previous NHS experience in wound care; - Domiciliary and Nursing Home Experience

Desirable: - Experience with Research/audit/ Qi; - Line management experience

Skills and Abilities

Essential: - Effective communication skills - written and verbal; - Good interpersonal skills; - Previous wound care/ high risk foot experience