Band 5 Podiatrist - development role leading to Band 6

Band 5 Podiatrist - Development Role Leading to Band 6

This post will suit a newly or recently qualified podiatrist or one who already has experience, who is enthusiastic, motivated, and ready to join our friendly team.

Would you love to continue developing your skills in all areas of podiatry including routine treatments, high risk and ulcer care, biomechanics, nail surgery and more?

This is a great opportunity to develop your post graduate skills and to build on your current skills. You will be given the opportunity to work through a competency programme during a preceptorship period of one year. As well as a full induction programme, we will also offer regular supervision sessions. Our aim is that you will become one of our band 6 Podiatrists.

You will be providing care within health centres, community hospitals, patients' homes, and care homes along with the opportunity to experience working within the acute hospital setting on wards and the MDT diabetic foot clinic.

Contact Details: Lesley Weaving, Lesley.weaving@nhs.net, 07918363920

Main Duties of the Job

You will work across different clinical sites as per service need.

You will be part of a preceptorship programme for one year with the aim of progressing to band 6 in six months.

You will be working in patients' homes, health centres, community hospitals, residential and nursing homes to assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment for patients with a wide range of complex clinical needs including:

• Diabetes and vascular disease
• Biomechanical conditions
• Acute and chronic wound management

You will also provide education and self-management advice, including signposting to non-NHS providers of foot care.

You will be expected to (list is not exhaustive):

• Identify when patients require the intervention of another professional and/or advanced podiatrist.
• Carry out simple biomechanical assessment in clinics, which will include prescription and fitting of simple chair-side orthoses, advice on exercise and stretching programmes, footwear advice.
• Carry out simple diabetic foot assessment providing appropriate advice.
• Undertake nail surgery.
• Maintain clinical records in SystmOne.
• Have the capability to safely handle patients who may be immobile, wheelchair or bed-bound often in confined spaces.
• Under supervision initially, sharp debride diabetic foot ulcers, providing complex wound care, applying appropriate dressings, & offloading.
• Be flexible & provide cover for colleagues at short notice / during absence, which may be at any site.

About Us

We may close the advert early if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health, and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs, the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Job Responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

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Experience

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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.