Ealing Outreach Specialist and Team Lead Podiatrist

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

The Outreach Podiatrist is responsible for providing high-quality outreach Podiatry services to individuals and groups. This may include but not limited to those vulnerable patients who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness, those who are incarcerated or any other situation which prevents a patient from an on-site appointment.
The successful candidate must hold a valid driver’s licence and have a car due to the outreach work being offsite.

The post holder will lead on, and deliver a range of care across the service to include (but not limited to and not intended to be exhaustive):

• Homelessness in Ealing
• Prison services
• Community projects which could include drugs and alcohol service
• Health promotion
• Education/Training to students/volunteers/cadets/Apprentice/work experience/assistants
• Support to the volunteers in Podiatry
• Lead on Co-production
• Work with PCNs/Health and Justice service/Council
• Work with the Health Ealing service for tackling health inequalities

These will include working with the Homeless, Prison services and any other outreach services we may provide services for. This is will also include providing care in the community clinics and well as doing home visits for routine/high risk/wound care patients.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London’s population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
The Ealing Podiatry service consists of partnership between CNWL and West London NHS. We work together to provide excellent care to our patients and offer a supportive and flexible environment for team members. Including an induction and scope for growth.
The teams are supported in their professional development with regular training and clinical supervision and opportunities to expand their clinical skills .
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings
Main duties are detailed in the attached Job description.
The duties highlight Clinical and Operational. It also highlights Managerial and leadership aspects of the role