Senior Podiatrist B6

To work as part of Enfield Community Services' Podiatry Department delivering care to a multi-cultural and diverse population, working to provide a high standard of podiatry intervention within the following service areas: high risk routine care, nail surgery; domiciliary care, MSK foot, and diabetic services. We are a small, friendly and committed team and we are looking for a like minded enthusiastic podiatrist to join us.

Main duties of the job

1. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and to be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
2. To hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular clinical reasoning sessions including peer and case reviews. Access to advice and support from a more senior podiatrist is available when required by phone, email, or on site.
3. To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients and carers to progress treatment programmes. This will include patients who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating. For example, patients may be dysphasic, depressed, deaf, and blind or who may be unable to accept diagnosis.
4. To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload, in line with Trust policies and procedures.
5. Lone Working - to assess and manage risk when working alone in a domiciliary or clinical setting.

About us

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

Job responsibilities

1. To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies. To use advanced clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment techniques to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis of their condition.
2. Formulate and deliver individual podiatric treatment programmes based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice, treatment options, and use of advanced assessment techniques.
3. Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
4. Evaluate patient progress, reassess and modify treatment programmes as required leading to discharge and self care where appropriate. This may be in conjunction with other members of the podiatry team and or multi-disciplinary team.
5. To be responsible for maintaining accurate comprehensive electronic patient treatment records in line with recognised professional standards of practice (i.e., from the Royal College of Podiatry) and trust policies.

Person Specification

• Broad based undergraduate experience in core clinical areas
• Experience of working as part of a team
• Ability to use a high level of clinical reasoning to facilitate diagnosis and the development of treatment plans
• Ability to use a number of Podiatric diagnostic tools and be able to interpret results.
• Able to deal with difficult situations, e.g. dealing with aggressive and/or emotional patients or carers

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.

St Michaels Site, Podiatry Department, Pine Lodge

£42,939 to £50,697 a year per annum inclusive of HCAs

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

391-NMUH-7087727

Job locations

St Michaels Site, Podiatry Department, Pine Lodge