This post is to provide maternity leave cover for a fixed term period of 12 months within the North East Lincolnshire Podiatry team.

The Podiatry service strives to provide a high standard of evidenced based podiatric care within a variety of settings including GP surgeries, community clinics and Hospital based multidisciplinary diabetes centres.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an enthusiastic and friendly team supported in regular clinical supervision, mentorship and development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate podiatric care for a variety of clinical conditions. You will be required to have a good understanding, clinical reasoning skills and demonstrate skills in MSK / biomechanical assessment, exercise and orthotic prescriptions, vascular assessment, wound management and nail surgery.

About us

We're a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.

We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt 'best practice' so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values kindness, courage and respect.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/

Should we receive a high volume of applications for this vacancy, the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Degree/Diploma in Podiatry
• HCPC Registration
• Relevant accredited courses or experience to equivalent level

Desirable

• Evidence of Masters level study.

Occupational experience and abilities

Essential

• Variety of post-graduate experience in core clinical areas (min 1 year)
• Evidence of a range of CPD activities associated with clinical area of post

Desirable

• Specific evidence of experience in the role related area

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Experience of student/ staff supervision
• Evidence of involvement in Quality Improvement activities

Desirable

• Evidence of working to support staff /students in relation to HR processes

Employer details

Employer name

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Diana Princess of Wales Hospital

Scartho Road

Grimsby

DN33 2BA

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