Team Lead Podiatrist

at  Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Podiatrist to join our Community podiatry service as a Team lead.
You will work closely with the Service Manager and will deputise and take the service lead as required . You will have opportunity to work with community services like MSK Physiotherapy as part of the deputising aspect of the role .
Working alongside the service manager you will take a lead on managing daily service issues, as well as managing some of the service data, waiting lists etc. This role provides a good split between clinical and management tasks.
Carrying your own clinical caseload you will be expected to be able to provide assessment and treatment for patients presenting with complex foot pathologies

Applicants will need the skills to provide leadership and development of staff in our teams.

• Carry a clinical complex caseload as a senior clinician working across our community or acute sites.
• Deputise and support the service manager with processes working across podiatry, MSK physiotherapy and speech and language therapy
• Work closely with the clinical Team lead in podiatry assuring that processes are joined
• Supporting the staff and ensuring we maintain our clinical standards across all locations both local process and environmental factors.
• Have a good understanding of all aspects of podiatry (excluding podiatric surgery).
• To ensure training to all staff is delivered, working with the clinical team lead as appropriate.
• To be responsible for monitoring, validating the service activity, waiting time data, and putting in initiatives to manage the variances.
• To attend service waiting list review meetings weekly and impart accurate service level information.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn’t the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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JOB SUMMARY

Working as a deputy to the service manager you will need good communication skills, and be able to direct and lead the teams as required on a daily basis. To take initiative and be proactive on resolving daily issues and be first point of contact for such concerns. There will be a requirement to work with service data, including waiting list management to ensure the service meets its trajectories. You will need excellent podiatry clinical skills and be keen to continue to develop professionally. There will be a requirement to attend internal and external professional meetings

To be part of a highly motivated team, working across clinics in the Community and the Acute Hospital. You will be based at Jarvis centre Guildford and will deputise for the service manager working across podiatry, MSK physiotherapy and speech and language therapy from a team leader process perspective. You will carry a podiatry clinical caseload in a variety of clinical settings.