Up to 37.5 hours per week. In this varied & rewarding role the post holder will undertake extensive practice across all aspects of managing the diabetic foot as well as providing expert care to a range of other patients with foot health needs. You can expect to:
- Work with a team of experienced Podiatrists with full access to clinical support from senior colleagues, working alongside staff from our HCA supports to Leads, managing acute & chronic wounds.
- Work across a range of settings including locations in primary, community & secondary care settings & in the domiciliary setting.
- Have access to a comprehensive induction & development plan, practice supervision & line-management supervision.
- Have regular team meetings, on-going CPD support within service, & the opportunity to undertake independent prescribing qualifications if appropriate.
- Participate in the development of Podiatric skills & learning with students, HCAs, Podiatry Assistant Practitioners at Band 4, as well as new graduates on our preceptorship scheme.
- Work in modern environments with full IT and administration support, & undertake line-management of staff as required by the service.
Main duties of the job This role principally requires the post holder to undertake a wide range of Podiatric care for patients with diabetes but will include patients from across the general care caseload working across community clinics and hospitals, on a domiciliary, as well as periodically within secondary care on rotation.
Post holders will provide patients with expert assessment, monitoring, diagnoses and clinical interventions pertaining to diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, neuropathy and all associated Podiatric presentations. Patients will vary from those requiring routine monitoring through to those with significant foot pathology including acute and chronic wounds. As such, staff in this role will also work in close liaison with primary care, and Podiatric and other colleagues in the secondary care setting.
There is a requirement to undertake the line-management of clinical and non-clinical staff as required by the service in this role.
All clinical care settings are supported by comprehensive IT access with the use of SystmOne as the clinical records and booking system, access to some GP records, and full access to imaging reports, blood tests and the like. Staff are provided with a laptop and mobile telephone for working remotely within the domiciliary setting.
All Livewell Southwest staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
About us Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
- Protected CPD time for registered staff
- Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
- Leadership & mentoring programmes
- Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
- A Robust Preceptorship
- A bespoke induction programme
- Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job description Job responsibilities SCOPE & RANGE The post holder will undertake a wide range of clinical duties delivering all aspects of general podiatric care with an emphasis on providing specialist quality podiatric care to patients with diabetes. The post requires the provision of this expert care at Band 6 and will incorporate the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of a range of patients presenting with (but not exclusively) diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, neuropathy, acute and chronic foot wounds, as well as those patients with general care needs.
In fulfilling this role, the post holder will work with service colleagues across all bandings and sub-specialities as well as working in close liaison with colleagues from other services, including orthotic services, community nursing teams, wards, residential and nursing homes, and primary and secondary care including service colleagues and others within the local Diabetes MDT. The undertaking of domiciliary care is an important feature of this role.
The post holder will work across all service provision settings including but not limited to, community clinics and hospitals, primary care settings, domiciliary settings and as required on a rotational basis, secondary care establishments. Staff rosters may vary depending on service capacity and demands requirements and the post holder will provide cover as directed in managing these factors.
An additional function of this role will be the provision of line-management to both clinical and non-clinical staff as required.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Specific duties and responsibilities can be found in the full Job Description to which applicants are directed, but will include and are not limited to the areas of:
- Responsibility for People Management
- Responsibility for financial and/or physical resources
- Responsibility for administration
- Responsibility for people who use our services
- Responsibility for implementation of policy and/or service developments
- Other Responsibilities
Details of communication, relationships and behaviour expectations as well as the physical demands of the role are also included in the full job description to which applicants are directed.
Person Specification Experience Essential - Substantial post graduate NHS or equivalent experience managing patients presenting with a range of podiatric needs including those with complex care requirements related to long term conditions, e.g. diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, neurological disorders.
- Experience in wound care management.
- Effective utilization of diagnostic tools, skills, test results and a range of interventions to manage patients presenting with diabetes related foot problems.
- Successful engagement of carers and relatives with patient care.
- Team and Multidisciplinary working.
- Ability to use Microsoft office applications.
- Education or supervision of others.
Desirable - Advanced wound care
- 3 Years Post graduation experience.
- Experience of using diagnostic tools and interpreting test results to manage patients with foot and lower limb wounds.
- Supervising/teaching of junior staff and students.
- Webpacs.
- Clinical Audit.
- Advanced wound care techniques
- Development and provision of wound education to various levels of professional staff.
Qualifications Essential - HCPC registered Podiatrist.
- Dip Pod M, BSc (Hons) Podiatry.
- Local Analgesia Certificate.
- Degree supplemented by specialist qualification or knowledge obtained by formal or informal learning with 3 to 5 years significant relevant experience.
- Ability to travel across the Plymouth, West Devon area independently.
- Driving licence and ability to drive on a daily basis for work including for domiciliary visits.
Desirable - POMs Certificate.
- IRMER.
- Non Medical Prescriber Qualification.
Knowledge Essential - Knowledge of the effect of diabetes on the foot and lower limb and their management e.g. painful neuropathy, complex wounds, infection, Charcot arthropathy.
- General knowledge of conditions other than diabetes which may affect the foot and lower limb and cause wounds and ulceration e.g. PAD.
- Knowledge of lower limb pressure relieving strategies and their implementation to minimize the risk of foot ulceration.
- Own and professional boundaries.
- Clinical Risk Management, governance and Health and Safety.
- Demonstrates understanding of local or national policies/drivers or recent influences effecting wound care/foot care.
Desirable Skills Essential - Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communications skills.
- Good interpersonal skills to deliver negotiated care packages to patients who are resistant to change.
- Ability to communicate verbally and in writing sensitive and emotional information.
- Ability to handle conflict.
- Excellent organisational & time management skills.
- Ability to manage patient caseloads and to plan programmes of care.
- Ability to work under pressure and respond to change.
- Motivated and enthusiastic.
- Effective team player.
- Ability to use own initiative.
Desirable - Presentation skills including Power Point and teaching adeptness.
Employer details Employer name Livewell Southwest
Address The Beauchamp Centre
Mount Gould Hospital
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 7QD
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