Specialist Podiatrist - Redbridge & Waltham Forest | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Our Podiatry Department provides services to a high risk, multi-cultural population across the London boroughs of Waltham Forest & Redbridge.

Our friendly Podiatry Service pride themselves on their close working together as a very friendly and approachable close-knit team with effective communication.

Your clinical work would be across an array of community & domiciliary settings across these boroughs, and acar is therefore essential to this role.

You would be responsible for treatment planning for foot complications associated with diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and vascular / ischaemic long-term conditions and would be part of the team treating foot ulceration in the community.

As a department we pride ourselves on being innovative and forward thinking and have MolecuLight i:X technology & Toe Pressure kits available across our wound care clinics.

We are committed to CPD and training initiatives to achieve personal as well as service objectives and there are opportunities to rotate into our Biomechanics and Nail Surgery Teams, and specialise.

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Personal Specification for full details.

COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata).

This vacancy would suit a qualified Podiatrist who has worked within the NHS environment for at least a year and enjoys rising to these challenges.

We are a high risk service, so the appropriate podiatry skills are required for the high-risk foot.

A Band 6 Specialist Podiatrist is responsible for providing programmes of clinical podiatric care to high-risk patients with a variety of podiatric needs in the community, hospital and domiciliary setting and will have autonomous responsibility for the specialist assessment of patients including those with multiple pathologies using clinical reasoning skills and diagnostic techniques. Evaluating the patient's progress and altering care plans if required.

Care is provided into the specialist areas of the service as required eg, diabetes, biomechanics, nail surgery, wound care.

As a department we pride ourselves on being innovative and forward thinking and haveMolecuLight:iXtechnology as well as Toe Pressure Kits in all of our high risk clinics to undertake the recently highlighted '2 minute Toe Pressure challenge'.

We have an MDFT at Whipps Cross Hospital and also work closely with the Podiatry team (part of an MDFT) based at The Royal London & St Bartholomew Hospitals, which has provided fantastic shadowing & learning opportunities.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and innovative team player to join our friendly Podiatry team (@Nelft_Podiatry on Twitter) within NELFT.