Diabetic and High-Risk Foot Service

Working collaboratively with primary and community care.

Diabetes PODIATRIST Link / Educator.

BAND 6: 1 WTE full time

If you enjoy promoting and facilitating specialist patient centered care, being proactive, identifying and addressing challenges, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

Main duties of the job

This is a unique and exciting post for a Band 6 Podiatrist with a keen interest and experience in diabetes to join our team. The recruit will be a motivated, keen and enthusiastic HCPC registered Podiatrist.

Exercise your clinical skills with an exciting and challenging caseload, with a motivated and successful Diabetes and High-Risk foot team. This unique post has a substantial focus on education and skills development to promote and facilitate excellent patient care, from care homes to community care and primary to secondary care across Northants.

The ability to reach out and work collaboratively with our stakeholders, with excellent communication and presentation skills that can be adapted to motivate health and social care staff across service boundaries. Skills in the development and use of resources both physical and electronic is essential.

This post is key and essential to reduce diabetes related amputation rates across Northants. The post holder will work with senior clinicians in the service to collect data and be involved in audit for continuous quality improvement of services.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Health Professions Council license to practice. (HCPC PIN)
• BSc Hons - Podiatric Medicine
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Able to assess, diagnose and implement treatment plans for stable complex post acute/pre-ulcerated patients

Desirable

• Evidence of be able to develop and implement continual foot health awareness for

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Post is Countywide - Office, Oakwood Centre, Kettering

Countywide

NN15 7PW

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