Specialist Wound care Podiatrist | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

· To act as specialist podiatrist in wound care in a variety of settings e.g. community health centres, patients own homes and acute sites.

· Determine a clinical diagnosis, develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes and/or provide specialist advice, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.

· The post holder will support the delivery of the wound care service and contribute to evolving and embedding best practice into the clinical area.

To manage own specialist wound care caseload and work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate
and comprehensive up to date records.
To carry out specialist assessment and treatment of podiatry patients, facilitating safe and timely discharges and transfer of care as appropriate. To determine a clinical diagnosis, develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes and/or provide specialist advice, ensuring appropriate
pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.

Take part in the education and training of podiatrists and qualified and non-qualified healthcare / social services / education staff including medical staff.
To support the Team Leader in the day to day running of the Podiatry Service.

To support and advise within the wider MDT on the delivery of the service

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS - yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

The post holder should be able-

-To manage own specialist wound care caseload.

- Work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up to date records.

-To carry out specialist assessment and treatment of podiatry patients, facilitating safe and timely discharges and transfer of care as appropriate.

-Determine a clinical diagnosis, develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes and/or provide specialist advice, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.

-Take part in the education and training of podiatrists and qualified and non-qualified healthcare / social services / education staff including medical staff.

- To support the Team Leader in the day to day running of the Podiatry Service.

-To support and advise within the wider MDT on the delivery of the service

-To develop and deliver effective clinical interventions within the speciality of wound care, contributing to clinical practice in the Podiatry Service in line with current evidence base.

-To manage autonomously a clinical workload of patients / clients at a specialist level, assessing and treating patients and maintaining clinical records.

-To have specialist assessment and treatment skills in the areas listed but not limitedto: -

the assessment, diagnosis, development and implementation of individualised care programmes for patients with a wide range of acute or chronic health problems; such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis neuropathy, vascular insufficiency and wound management.

- Receiving and processing complex medical information relating to high-risk patients, thus, facilitating diagnosis and implementation of an appropriatetreatmentplan, providing advice and education as an integral part of the plan. - reviewing treatment plans regularly and when appropriate.

- Discharging the patient with a care package of education and/or orthotics with the option to self-refer back to care.

-To apply evidence based knowledge within the specialist clinical area acquired through experience and academic study to a specialist post graduate level.

- To act, within Podiatry and the Trust, as a resource and provide advice for podiatrists, other professionals and colleagues within the MDT about the assessment, treatment, management and care of patients / clients who have a multi-pathological illness and/or complex psychosocial need.

-To work collaboratively with health and social care community and acute colleagues.

To work with other members of the MDT to ensure effective wound care pathways and transfer of care / discharges.

-To proactively and appropriately facilitate a seamless transfer of care and continuing therapeutic management of podiatry patients between care settings.

- To work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary manner within the MDT, being able to debate the blurring of boundaries across professions and where competent take on aspects of blurred boundary working, where appropriate.

-To develop specialist programmes of assessment, treatment and intervention for podiatry patients

- To manage and prioritise own clinical workload as appropriate, working efficiently to manage professional time and delegate according to the training and competency levels of other team members to ensure the effective delivery of the service.

- To participate in the supervision process with staff on a daily basis and for students as required.

-To ensure a high standard of patient care is provided including implementing and reviewing clinical standards relevant to the work undertaken.

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