Specialist Podiatrist

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking to recruit a B6 podiatrist with a special interest in biomechanics or a B5 podiatrist who wants to progress in their career.

Do you want to work in one of the nation's areas of outstanding natural beauty, delivering care with the scenic Lake District Fells as your backdrop? The North Cumbria Podiatry Department has received outstanding achievement through the We Care Audit and has been awarded 'Best team supporting learning' and 'Best learning opportunities' with the trust.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a high level of interpersonal and organisational skills, alongside a good sense of humour and team focus.

The Department has a good skill mix including advanced and specialist Podiatrists, Podiatry assistants, and administrative staff. Currently, we maintain high-risk, biomechanics, and nail surgery caseloads. As a specialist podiatrist, you will triage and treat a variety of podiatric problems and provide foot health education to patients and other stakeholders.

Opportunities to develop skills and knowledge in specialist areas are available through our close links with the multi-disciplinary diabetic foot team and North Cumbria MSK service.

If this sounds like your ideal role, we look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

• Formulate and deliver individual treatment plans using assessment, reasoning, and clinical decision-making based on your specialist knowledge and evidence-based practice and guidelines.
• Evaluate patient progress, re-assess and alter treatment plans using evidence-based medicine/guidelines and recognise when additional support and advice are needed.
• Be responsible for the escalation of patients presenting with complex conditions outside the scope of practice to an advanced podiatrist/appropriately experienced podiatrist.
• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients/service users in your care.
• Undertake self-directed/lone working in a variety of locations, including patients' homes.
• Plan and organise efficiently and effectively your clinical caseload.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient records.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high-quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation, we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria, we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

Registered Nurses, Midwives, and Allied Health Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles, or changing clinical environments may access an agreed preceptorship period.

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received, this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date; please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
• Local anaesthesia certificate
• Certificate in radiology (IRMER)

Knowledge & experience

• Previous experience working in the NHS
• Knowledge and experience in the assessment, diagnosis, and management of high-risk foot
• Knowledge of UK NHS Podiatry services
• Understanding of Primary care
• Understanding of relevant NHS Policies
• Experience working in a specialist area

Personal Circumstances

• The ability to work at and travel to various sites throughout North Cumbria.

Other Requirements

• Demonstrate satisfactory health screening.
• Acts in a way that supports equity and diversity (level 1).
• Documented evidence of Hep B vaccination.

Skills and Aptitudes

• Ability to assess new patients and provide appropriate treatment based on individual need of patients and care planning.
• Ability to manage and critically evaluate caseload.
• Ability to manage own time, prioritise tasks, work independently, and under own initiative and multi-task.
• Good organisational and timekeeping skills.
• Highly developed level of manual dexterity for the use of surgical instruments, including scalpels and needles.
• Able to work in restricted positions, particularly when carrying out domiciliary visits to accommodate patient needs.
• Ability to carry out, analyse and interpret results of various specialist assessments within scope of practice.
• Able to adapt to change and resolve problems.
• Work unsupervised.
• High levels of concentration during treatment and the ability to deal with unexpected situations (e.g. emergencies).
• Exercise individual responsibility and judgement.
• Able to remain calm while under pressure.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues, other healthcare professionals, carers, and patients.
• Receives information concerning patients/clients history, sensitive issues, and some patients with communication difficulties: requires persuasive, reassurance skills.
• Work as a member of a team.
• Undertake clinical audits, as necessary to own work/ regularly undertake R&D trials/ clinical trials.
• Performance manage staff when indicated.
• Ability to supervise less experienced members of the podiatry team.

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.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours