Wound Care Specialist Podiatrist

The post holder will provide expertise and advice in the treatment of highly complex conditions, undertaking treatments as required. In addition the post holder will use their expertise to be a source of training and mentorship to those within the immediate team/area and as necessary, more widely.Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes., Principal Responsibilities:- Provide care, advice and guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist conditions.- Responsible for the delivery of identified specialist training.- Work in partnership with the other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.- Ensure that the team provides a high quality service to its patients/clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.- Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.- Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care.- Work in partnership with other organisations to support the effective and co-ordinated provision of health and social care services.- Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.- Provide
leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.- Challenge professional and organisational boundaries to ensure that the role is focused on meeting the needs of service users

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.