Job summary
- Main area
- Podiatry
- Grade
- 7
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-0547771
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hemel Hempstead General Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £27.48 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Podiatrist band 7
7
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
• To provide a high quality of care to a diverse range of Podiatric patients
• To work in collaboration with a team of Podiatrists and other care providers to ensure seamless care delivery for all patients.
• To monitor and supervise services delivered by support staff including Podiatry Assistant, Graduate Podiatrist and Student Placements
• To be flexible and be able to cope with a busy, varied and demanding workload, where it is essential to move between sessional clinics on foot / by transport and to be able to multitask using continued diagnostic and analytical skills throughout the day
Main duties of the job
• To autonomously assess and diagnose patients with a diverse range of medical and podiatric conditions, using appropriate diagnostic techniques, skills and tools.
• To create and implement tailored treatment and specialist care plans (e.g. ulcer management), using a variety of appropriate treatment options for a range of patient groups including those in the “high risk” and “at risk” categories, focusing on the management of primary foot pathologies including patients with the following conditions:
- Diabetes
- Chronic Neuropathy
- Chronic Disease e.g. Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Wound Management/Tissue Viability Problems
- Terminally ill patients
- HIV
• To adopt a problem solving approach, engaging patients and carers in their treatment plan, negotiating on agreed outcomes, gaining consent and educating users on self-care.
• To provide general and specialist foot health advice, including the care of the “at risk and high risk foot”; providing information on the signs and symptoms of pedal manifestations of systemic chronic and acute diseases.
• To evaluate and review treatment outcomes and implement discharge policies for those patients
meeting the discharge criteria in accordance with the department’s criteria for care policy.
Working for our organisation
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To ensure effective communication of complex, highly sensitive and emotional information to Diabetic patients with limb threatening conditions.
• To liaise with and provide feedback to referrers to the service by letter and/or verbal communication, ensuring that assessment, diagnostic results and treatment plans are understood by the referrer in order that the treatment aims are understood and supported by the wider health care network.
Person specification
Education/Skills
Essential criteria
- Degree in Podiatry as well as post graduate CPD in woundcare management
- Drivers lisence
- Able to carry out the duties of the post (with or without adaptations) as assessed by Occupational Health.
- State Registration in Chiropody/Podiatry. (diploma/BSC Podiatry)
- Experience of podiatry work in NHS/Private Sector minimum of 6 months continuous employment.
- Ability to prioritise and multitask in order to cope with a varied and demanding workload
- Awareness of the structure and function of ICO.
- Good clinical record keeping awareness and ability.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- shannon scott
- Job title
- Bank recruitment business partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02039378322
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