Specialist Podiatrist Long Term Conditions

• Providing specialist assessment, diagnosis and treatment for patients with complex and high-risk foot conditions
• Supporting service delivery and contributing to the ongoing development of podiatry services
• Participating in leadership activities and quality improvement initiatives
• Contributing to education and training for colleagues and students where appropriate
• Engaging in research and service development projects to improve patient outcomes
• Working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to deliver coordinated care

• Access to a wide range of learning opportunities, including courses, workshops and a supportive network
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance

Essential

• BSc Degree in Podiatric Medicine or equivalent.
• Evidence of continual professional and personal development portfolio, including postgraduate course attendance
• Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) with annotations POM-A, POM-S, and Independent Prescriber (or willingness to train).

Desirable

• Ionising radiation (medical exposure) regulations certificate- IR(ME)R and proficient in using PACS.
• Training in requesting and interpretation of investigations relevant to foot complications
• Education in advanced podiatric practice such as MSc in Podiatric Medicine or equivalent.
• Leadership qualification/course.

Essential

• Substantive experience of working at a band 6 level or above.
• Experience of case management of a high risk caseload: leadership of a Vascular and or Woundcare patient pathway.
• Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency working.
• Experience of clinical supervision, and leading, teaching & mentoring others
• Experience of continuous quality improvement, clinical pathway improvement, & service development
• Knowledge of audit and risk assessment.
• Understand and apply principles of Clinical Governance within the 3 domains of quality.
• Understand equality and diversity and its implications in care provision.

Desirable

• Experience of working in a fast-paced NHS environment and managing competing demands.
• Experience of line management of others, including sickness absence management.
• Practical application of National high risk foot and lower limb prevention strategies, including The National Woundcare Strategy Programme

Essential

• Ability to professionally process safeguarding and distressing or uncomfortable situations, e.g. terminally ill patients, recognise report abuse of others, providing guidance to team members where appropriate.
• Ability to analyse patients concerns, their needs, and propose a range of effective solutions with adaptive communication styles
• Ability to undertake sustained intricate work in using sensitive diagnostic tools and a range of surgical instruments, for example the management and debridement of tissue viability/wounds etc.
• Ability to apply biomechanics knowledge to a wound care setting, for example offloading, casting etc.
• Adaptability to a variety of working environments including the patients own homes if required.
• Ability to cope with sometimes distressing settings and work tasks including wound care, necrotic tissue, neglected pathology and exposure to malodour, body fluids including blood and wound exudate.
• Ability to reflect on own practice as well as seek and accept feedback.
• Passion for own and professional progression, forward thinking and innovative
• Ability to understand, appreciate and articulate implications of data, and apply the learning to staff rota management and job planning, directing others as required.

Desirable

• Planning, organising, and chairing team meetings.
• Development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures.
• Experience of the review and updating of clinical systems templates.
• Ability to understand business continuity plans.
• Experience of implementation of Patient Group Directives to improve patient care pathways

Essential

• Able to communicate with respect, and discuss successfully, topics of conversation that can be challenging in planning patient care and through staff management.
• Ability to cope with a busy demanding and varied workloads
• Able to cope with the demands of moving between sessional clinics. This may include carriage of clinical equipment.
• Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
• Performing clinical treatments in physically restricted work positions requiring repetitive fine movements.