Community Podiatrist

Join our dynamic team and embark on a rewarding career that offers exposure to a comprehensive spectrum of podiatric care. As a Podiatrist with us, you will have the opportunity to engage in both preventative and acute care, particularly focusing on foot health pathologies associated with long-term conditions such as diabetes and inflammatory Arthropathies.,

• To be responsible for the assessment, planning and provision of high quality programmes of podiatric care in both acute and community settings.
• Acting as the lead clinician in Nail Surgery clinics where surgical procedures are performed under Local Anaesthetic.
• Routine assessment and provision of specialist Podiatry competencies i.e. MSK, wound management etc.
• Management of patients with complex pathologies in order to maintain mobility, independence and lower limb viability.
• To maintain compliance with excellent Infection prevention and control standards.
  
  This is an opportunity for HCPC Registered Podiatrists, who have a flexible approach to service provision with the ability to work as part of a team as well as individually. All team members are supported and developed through a structured annual appraisal process.
  
  Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.