Care Pathway Lead for Nail Surgery (NHS AfC: Band 7) - Band 7 Care Pathway Lead - NELFT NHS Fou[...]

Main area Band 7 Care Pathway Lead Grade NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract Permanent: Must include working on a Monday. Hours Part time - 18.75 hours per week

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Site Redbridge & Waltham Forest Town Chigwell

Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum, plus HCAS (Pro Rata) Salary period Yearly

Closing 24/04/2025 23:59

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our team for a Care Pathway Lead for Nail Surgery to join our friendly, supportive Podiatry Team.

Our Podiatry Department is a forward-thinking, busy service providing Podiatry Services to the GP population in Redbridge & Waltham Forest. The population that we serve are both multi-cultural and diverse.

Our Podiatry Care Pathway Leads are highly experienced, valuable members of the team with expert knowledge in their field. They are responsible for the speciality service that they lead including responsibility and organisation of effective care pathways as well as the day-to-day operational management and supervision of designated clinicians.

Your clinical work would be across an array of community & domiciliary settings across these boroughs, and a car driver is therefore essential to this role.

Main duties of the job

• Take clinical responsibility for care pathways organising effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and ensuring that treatment/information is provided within the required AHP waiting times. Highlighting solutions to capacity concerns and proactively advising the service lead on solutions to manage demand.
• Provide operational and clinical leadership for the care pathway and responsibility for educating colleagues and junior staff and will be the main contact for expert advice and support for junior staff in the team.
• Will take lead responsibility for delivering high quality, timely, accessible, and evidence-based services for patients as part of the clinical pathway.
• Will undertake a high-risk clinical role according to current priority/demand on the service including comprehensive advanced assessment and treatment of patients with multiple pathologies formulating treatment plans based on clinical findings.
• Establish and implement systems and structures for effective monitoring of quality and service audit. Encouraging departmental clinical audit and research in specialist areas.
• Will act as a lead clinical specialist for nail surgery and wound care in community.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of basic salary, with a minimum of £4,551 and maximum of £5,735, pro rata for part-time staff.

Certificates of Sponsorship

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

This vacancy would suit an experienced Band 6 Specialist Podiatrist with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in the area of specialism required, and who can demonstrate leadership skills required for this role.

Our organisation is driven by our strategic objectives and organisational values and we are looking for people who are strongly aligned with them.

Our friendly Podiatry Service prides itself on their close working together as a very friendly and approachable close-knit team with effective communication. We are also on X @Nelft_Podiatry.

As a department we pride ourselves on being innovative and forward-thinking and have MolecuLight:iX technology as well as Toe Pressure Kits in all of our high-risk clinics to undertake the recently highlighted '2 minute Toe Pressure challenge'.

We have an MDFT at Whipps Cross Hospital and work closely with the Podiatry team (part of an MDFT) based at The Royal London & St Bartholomew Hospitals, which has provided fantastic shadowing & learning opportunities.

Please refer to the Job Description & Personal Specification for full details of this role.

Person specification

Demonstration of Trust Values

• Putting people first
• Being progressive, innovative, and continually improve
• Being professional and honest
• Promoting what is possible, independence, opportunity, and choice

Qualifications

• BSc Diploma/Degree in Podiatric Medicine
• Certificate in the administration Local Anaesthesia
• Prescription only medicines certificate
• Registration with HCPC
• Evidence of Continual Professional Development
• Evidence of postgraduate training to master's level or equivalent experience
• Supplementary Prescribing – working towards independent prescribing

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in area of specialism
• Experience of communicating across internal and external boundaries
• Experience of governance, quality and audit
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Experience and Knowledge of commissioning

Knowledge

• An awareness of NHS priorities
• Knowledge of current NHS strategy, and clinical governance priorities
• Knowledge of local Health Priorities including cultural diversity
• Knowledge of all Guidelines relating to diabetes

Skills

• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Ability to balance competing priorities to meet personal and directorate targets within a fluctuating and demanding workload
• Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
• Excellent organisational and clinical skills
• Commitment to own development

Other

• To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
• Applicant will need to be a car driver with a valid UK Licence (this criteria will be reasonable adjusted to meet the requirements of a disabled applicant) and access to a car for work purposes.

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions, and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part-time hours or another flexible pattern.

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community makes to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans, reservists, and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third-party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

If you require any additional support during the application process please contact recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk. We are happy to make reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment journey.