Podiatrist Advanced | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will work as the locality lead in relation to delivering high risk care and acting as a point of reference for colleagues supporting the delivery of care in line with the relevant NICE guidance and national Wound-care Strategy documentation. The post-holder will: Take a holistic approach in assessing people requiring high risk care. Ensure that all interventions are designed using, where possible, evidence based practice and to evaluate outcomes. You will be joining a highly motivated and friendly professional team. Duties will include delivering evidence-based podiatry within clinics, GP surgeries, hospitals, patient's homes and nursing homes. The post covers Blyth and other sites in the South East locality area. To be a strong candidate we are looking for an Advanced Podiatrist able to integrate into multidisciplinary teams and display the strength of character to work autonomously. There is a requirement to support and develop others including podiatry students and other professions, podiatry assistants and newly qualified staff and existing colleagues. Work across acute, community and primary health care sectors as part of a multidisciplinary team with direct input to patient care, working with people who have highly complex health need, and acting as a source of advice to medical colleagues, other health care professionals, patients and carers. Be responsible for the maintenance of appropriate documentation for patient records, reports, audits and Departmental standards. We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

• Participate in CPD through various means including; peer review, clinical supervision, appraisal etc., where appropriate disseminating information / learning throughout the Department.
• Maintain professional registration, following the HPC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Lead by example on service transformation activity and maintain the Team's focus on continuous service improvement and value for money
• Ordering and receipting stock.
• Work with the Clinical Lead to evaluate dressing choices and manage efficiencies for wound- care dressing choices.
• Provide clinical leadership for the team through the effective implementation of all organisational policies and procedures.
• Support the Team and take a lead in ensuring that high quality, evidence based podiatric care is delivered.
• Demonstrate a flexible approach to service delivery to meet demands placed upon the service and ensure that waiting time targets and maximum patient choice are delivered.
• Evaluate clinical practice by monitoring standards of care and undertake audits in support of the clinical governance framework.
• Play an active part in the development of local policies and guidelines by advising on policy changes which may impact beyond own area.
• This post may require assessment centre and/or psychometric testing.
  
  Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHCT) Community Podiatry Services are looking for a highly motivated, proactive and focused qualified Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) registered Advanced Podiatrist to join their department, working into the North Team. Essential qualifications required to apply are: Diploma/ Degree in Podiatric Medicine, HPC registration, local anaesthetic certificate, computer literate and an understanding of pathways of care.
This development role is perfect for an experienced and 6 clinician or an existing band 7 clinician with relevant experience. The post builds on the move of the service to deliver the highest quality high risk care in line with the national, regional and local position in relation to NHS service delivery., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.