Associate Practitioner - Community Podiatry

at  East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

This role will join the growing podiatry service in North East Essex. We provide all age podiatry care for people living with a wide variety of conditions impacting their feet. You will have the opportunity to work with our podiatrists, apprentice podiatrist, and closely with our colleagues in orthotics and wider MDT services.
For this band 4 role we expect you to have passed the Royal College of Podiatry Assistant Practitioner course. However, we are happy to receive applications from people who have experience and knowledge and are prepared to work towards this qualification. In this event a band 3 development post would be considered whist the course was being completed. Please make it clear on your application if you are wishing to be considered as a development role.
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday , 08:30- 16:30, subject to change upon needs of the service.
You will work with the Podiatry service to provide high quality evidence based podiatric care.
This will include seeing patients in clinic and at home once competencies completed
You will hold your own clinics, as delegated by the podiatrists, completing assessments and interventions within agreed competencies.
You will escalate any issues of concern promptly to support effective patient care
You will also assist the podiatrists in clinics were clinical assistant is needed, for example this main include nail surgery, short return wound management clinics, workshops, and new patient clinics.
You will provide a professional and efficient service to the patients within the service
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England , employing more than 12,000 staff
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you
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