Specialist Podiatrist Long Term Conditions in Wembley

Are you an experienced Podiatrist with a passion for high-risk foot care and an interest in developing your leadership skills? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a dynamic and supportive podiatry team in Brent and Harrow Specialist Care. This role is available as a 9-month secondment to cover maternity leave, with part-time and flexible working options available.

You will be part of a forward-thinking service that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous professional development. You will be supported in this role to grow across all four domains of practice: clinical care, leadership, education, and research. Dedicated support is provided by senior colleagues, Service Lead, and a Practice Development Podiatrist who works across the organisation supporting our services. This is an excellent opportunity to advance your career while contributing to high-quality patient care within a community-focused service.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver high-quality podiatry care, with a focus on high-risk patients, while developing your leadership and service improvement skills.
• Providing specialist assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for patients with complex and high-risk foot conditions.
• Supporting service delivery and contributing to the ongoing development of podiatry services.
• Participating in leadership activities and quality improvement initiatives.
• Contributing to education and training for colleagues and students where appropriate.
• Engaging in research and service development projects to improve patient outcomes.
• Working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to deliver coordinated care.

You will also benefit from:

• Access to a wide range of learning opportunities, including courses, workshops, and a supportive network.
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.

The role may involve working across different community locations within Brent.

Job responsibilities

Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust's values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

• BSc Degree in Podiatric Medicine or equivalent.
• Evidence of continual professional and personal development portfolio, including postgraduate course attendance.
• Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) with annotations POM-A, POM-S, and Independent Prescriber (or willingness to train).
• Ionising radiation (medical exposure) regulations certificate- IR(ME)R and proficient in using PACS.
• Training in requesting and interpretation of investigations relevant to foot complications.
• Education in advanced podiatric practice such as MSc in Podiatric Medicine or equivalent.

Experience

• Substantive experience of working at a band 6 level or above.
• Experience of case management of a high-risk caseload: leadership of a Vascular and/or Woundcare patient pathway.
• Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency working.
• Experience of clinical supervision, and leading, teaching & mentoring others.
• Experience of continuous quality improvement, clinical pathway improvement, & service development.
• Knowledge of audit and risk assessment.
• Understand and apply principles of Clinical Governance within the 3 domains of quality.
• Understand equality and diversity and its implications in care provision.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced NHS environment and managing competing demands.
• Experience of line management of others, including sickness absence management.
• Practical application of National high-risk foot and lower limb prevention strategies, including The National Woundcare Strategy Programme.

Skills & Knowledge

• Ability to professionally process safeguarding and distressing or uncomfortable situations, e.g. terminally ill patients, recognise report abuse of others, providing guidance to team members where appropriate.
• Ability to analyse patients' concerns, their needs, and propose a range of effective solutions with adaptive communication styles.
• Ability to undertake sustained intricate work in using sensitive diagnostic tools and a range of surgical instruments, for example, the management and debridement of tissue viability/wounds etc.
• Ability to apply biomechanics knowledge to a wound care setting, for example offloading, casting etc.
• Adaptability to a variety of working environments including the patient's own homes if required.
• Ability to cope with sometimes distressing settings and work tasks including wound care, necrotic tissue, neglected pathology and exposure to malodour, body fluids including blood and wound exudate.
• Ability to reflect on own practice as well as seek and accept feedback.
• Passion for own and professional progression, forward thinking and innovative.
• Ability to understand, appreciate and articulate implications of data, and apply the learning to staff rota management and job planning, directing others as required.
• Planning, organising, and chairing team meetings.
• Development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures.
• Experience of the review and updating of clinical systems templates.
• Ability to understand business continuity plans.
• Experience of implementation of Patient Group Directives to improve patient care pathways.

Key Attributes

• Able to communicate with respect, and discuss successfully, topics of conversation that can be challenging in planning patient care and through staff management.
• Ability to cope with a busy demanding and varied workloads.
• Able to cope with the demands of moving between sessional clinics. This may include carriage of clinical equipment.
• Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
• Performing clinical treatments in physically restricted work positions requiring repetitive fine movements.
• Ability to appreciate, empathise and be sympathetic to challenging and difficult situations and help manage them with professionalism and maturity.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Contract

Fixed term Duration: 9 months

Working pattern: Part-time

Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro rata)

Job locations: Chalkhill Primary Care Centre, The Welford Health Centre