Lower Limb Specialist Podiatrist-Surrey Downs H&C (NHS AfC: Band 7) - Surrey Downs Health & Car[...]

Employer: Surrey Downs Health and Care

Employer type: Public (Non NHS)

Site: Leatherhead Hospital

Town: Leatherhead

Salary: £48,270 - £54,931 Pro Rata Per Annum inc Fringe HCAS

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 26/02/2025 23:59

Surrey Downs Health and Care

Lower Limb Specialist Podiatrist - Surrey Downs H&C

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job Overview

Surrey Downs Health & Care

The Podiatry Service at Surrey Downs Health and Care is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Band 7 Podiatrist with specialist skills in the field of lower limb wound care and complex foot wounds.

The successful candidate will be required to have experience in delivering high-quality care to patients and be able to develop patient pathways between acute and community care.

The post holder will lead and be a source of clinical expertise for lower limb wounds within the community, working with Podiatry team colleagues across Community, Tier 3 Diabetes service, and acute settings. You will provide highly specialist diagnostic assessment, treatment, and advice; including wound management of high-risk groups, particularly but not exclusively diabetes, to maintain patients' mobility, independence, and prevent disability.

Teaching, mentoring, and supervising students and podiatrists, as well as building working relationships with members of the MDT and other AHPs in primary and secondary care, will be an essential aspect of this role.

If you have excellent organisational skills, are an effective communicator, and have experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment, we would like to hear from you. Shortlisting will be based upon meeting the essential job criteria.

Main Duties of the Job

• To take the lead role in all foot and lower limb care.
• Ensuring an effective, coordinated podiatry service is provided.
• To continue to strengthen patient pathways between acute, primary, and community care.
• To lead and implement a regular review of outcome measures across the service to ensure the service is effective.
• Provide an exemplary standard of care which includes highly specialist diagnostic assessment, treatment and advice, including advanced wound management of high-risk groups including vascular complications, to maintain patients' mobility, independence, and prevent disability.
• To lead on clinical local and national audits, service pilots/projects, and other research activities to support the development of evidence-based practice.
• To act as a source of expertise and undertake training to support colleagues in maintaining and developing their clinical skills within the MDT, including district nursing.

Working for Our Organisation

Surrey Downs Health and Care delivers care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services, and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person-centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:

• The three GP federations: GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care, and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area.
• CSH Surrey
• Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust

Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries, and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.

It’s on those grounds that Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care, and treatment more easily than ever before.

In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

• To work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team to deliver high quality and responsive programmes of podiatric care to patients.
• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team including General Practitioners and other health care professionals.
• To be responsible for a highly complex and specialised caseload involving the implementation and coordination of highly specialised treatment regimes involving the holistic management of the ‘at risk foot’.
• To be highly proficient in: comprehensive neurological and vascular assessment, total contact casting, deep wound debridement, advanced pathology, wound management techniques e.g. VAC therapy.
• To undertake diagnostic procedures using appropriate equipment e.g. wound swabs, Doppler ultrasound. Also to request diagnostic procedures via referral process.
• To ensure best practice when exposed to unpleasant working conditions, maintaining infection control standards when faced with malodorous wounds, ulcerations, and challenging unhygienic environments.
• To provide a service based in the community.
• Professional
• To work as an autonomous clinician working within professional, departmental, and Surrey Downs Health and Care guidelines, thus being legally and professionally accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of your patients.
• To take a lead role in departmental clinical governance initiatives, for example, designing audit projects, collection of audit data, research, and development of clinical standards within the specialist area of practice.
• To keep up to date with clinical and professional developments and use evidence-based practice.
• To complete and maintain clinical competencies identified for the post.
• To maintain and update an individual Professional Portfolio, and achieve statutory hours of CPD per year.
• To actively participate in personal development reviews (PDRs) and lifelong learning.
• To lead, promote, and participate in clinical support (clinical supervision) whilst facilitating team members to utilise reflective skills as a method of ensuring quality of care for all service users.
• To support and represent the Podiatry department in any projects, programmes, and training events as required.
• To lead on any relevant Podiatric contribution to NSF’s and NICE guidelines. This will involve proposing and developing new policies and service changes which may impact on own department and others and represent the department at trust level when required.
• To be aware of one’s own scope of practice and refer to other peers/professionals as necessary.
• Management
• To prevent professional isolation for colleagues working in the community by creating and maintaining systems for encouraging and supporting communications between podiatrists.
• To collaborate closely with team leaders and managers to ensure consistent delivery of clinical standards across Surrey Downs Health and Care.
• To be responsible for the supervision of colleagues and students, and provide specialist training in area of expertise.
• Ensure that the team learns from mistakes, near misses, and complaints, promoting a learning culture.
• To facilitate in-service training programmes e.g. including liaising with internal/external trainers and other professional leads.
• To participate in recruitment, reviewing job descriptions, shortlisting, and sitting on interview panels and inducting new members of staff including bank staff and locums.
• To contribute to the department’s strategy and annual business plan and produce objectives in line with it for the team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HCPC Registered Podiatrist
• Local Anaesthetic Certificate
• (DPodM or BSc) Car Driver (Full Licence)
• Specialist clinical experience.
• Involvement in training and teaching
• IR(ME)R
• Pharmacology certificate Independent prescriber

Skills

• Good hand-eye coordination
• Good clinical expertise in lower limb wound care including Doppler assessment
• Evidence of clinical leadership
• Experience of line management

Experience

• NHS experience.
• Experience in the provision of high-risk treatments and diabetic assessments in an acute/community environment
• Broad spectrum of clinical experience
• Experience in clinical audit
• Experience in research

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.

Name: laura.price29@nhs.net

Job title: Operational Manager, Clinical Lead Podiatrist

Email address: laura.price29@nhs.net

Telephone number: 07918476821