Podiatry Caseload Holder

Are you passionate about improving foot health and enhancing quality of life? Join our podiatry team and make a real difference to the lives of patients every day! As a Podiatry Caseload Holder, you will be involved in the assessment and treatment planning for patients with a variety of complex needs and long term conditions, with an emphasis on wound management. You will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating with other healthcare professionals to deliver high quality, person centred care. We deliver our services in clinic settings and patients own homes, including nursing and residential homes. Applicants must be HCPC registered and have post registration experience. Our offer to you:

• Rotation into the acute sector as an observer in departments such as vascular and orthopaedics.
• Encouragement and support with your career progression into advanced clinical roles and leadership roles.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, they are:
• Continuous improvement
• Accountability
• Respect
• Enthusiasm
• Support
If you share our values and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we want to hear from you.Main duties of the job You will have continuing responsibility for the management of a defined caseload. You will be responsible for the continuity of care and be the lead person for communication to identified stakeholders. The primary function of the role is to provide proactive, responsive services that address the anticipatory and maintenance care needs of the patients/clients within the defined caseload. This will be done via a holistic assessment of care needs and the provision of clinical care for patients/clients with acute and chronic highly complex needs. You will practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making. You will work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the team leader. You will ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.