Specialist Podiatrist

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

To work as part of a highly motivated team, with NHS post-registration experience and/or having completed a band 6 competency based programme. The job entails autonomous working without supervision across community and acute settings providing a high standard of quality clinical care. 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.
The post holder will provide professional, quality planned programmes of podiatry care to a specified caseload of patients based on their clinical needs and provide specialist care 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. The post-holder 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 and will be expected to contribute to the development of the Podiatry Department and to adhere to Trust and Departmental policies, procedures and objectives

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