Podiatrist

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHCT) Community Podiatry Services are looking for a highly motivated, proactive and focused qualified Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) registered Specialist Podiatrist to join their department.
To assess, diagnose, treat and evaluate abnormalities and diseases related to the foot and lower limb in people of all ages. To provide treatment for high-risk patient groups such as the elderly and those with increased risk of amputation.
To provide specialist care to patients in order to maintain mobility, independence, tissue viability and to relieve discomfort especially for those patients with diabetes, circulatory disorders, neuropathy, rheumatoid arthritis and biomechanical pathologies.
To provide high quality support to others in the team and work into wider MDTs to the benefit of patients.
You will be joining a highly motivated and friendly professional team. Duties will include delivering evidence-based podiatry within clinics, GP surgeries, hospitals, patient’s homes and nursing homes. The post mainly covers the North locality area and Alnwick can be base however , the locality base can be discussed and negotiated in interview due to the size of the North locality geographical footprint.
To be a strong candidate we are looking for a Podiatrist able to integrate into multidisciplinary teams, function within a supportive peer group and display the strength of character to work autonomously. The department offers a band 5 competency programme to develop the podiatry role.
The post holder will provide professional, quality planned programmes of podiatry care to patients based on their clinical needs.
They must be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, acting as a source of professional advice to patients, carers, GPs and other healthcare professionals.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
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The post holder will provide professional, quality planned programmes of podiatry care to patients based on their clinical needs.
They will provide specialist care to patients in order to maintain mobility, independence, tissue viability and to relieve discomfort especially for those patients with diabetes, circulatory disorders, neuropathy, rheumatoid arthritis and biomechanical pathologies.
They must be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, acting as a source of professional advice to patients, carers, GPs and other healthcare professionals.
They will be expected to contribute to the development of the Podiatry Department and to adhere to Trust and Departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries

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