Podiatrist London

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting full-time Band 6 Podiatrists to join our expanding Community Foot Health team. Working across the vibrant London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, you'll be part of a friendly, forward-thinking team of nearly 30 podiatrists delivering high-quality, patient-centred care in clinics, hospitals, and patients' homes.

What we offer:

• Diverse practice: Gain hands-on experience across a broad scope of podiatry -- including wound care, MSK, nail surgery, and specialist rotations in hospital settings.
• Home visits (2 days/week) with pool cars and mobile tech for support.
• Clinical supervision, mentoring & ongoing CPD.
• Career progression within one of the UK's top NHS Trusts.

We're looking for adaptable, motivated podiatrists with post-grad experience (or equivalent) who are eager to make a difference in a community setting. This is a varied, rewarding role with real opportunity for growth in a supportive team.

Main duties of the job:

• To work as part of an autonomous and innovative team specialising in foot and lower limb pathologies.
• To assess, diagnose, implement and develop individualised assessment and treatment programmes for patients with an emphasis on medical need.
• This will involve general and specialist care within a range of locations, including clinical, domiciliary, hospital, and other external settings with a holistic and multidisciplinary approach.
• To commit to a philosophy of care with emphasis on client empowerment and self-care.
• To work as a highly motivated team member within the podiatry and multidisciplinary team setting and with external organisations and settings to achieve the best patient outcome.

We are a large community based service comprised of thirty podiatrists and two podiatry assistants who work across the central London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. We have a fantastic, diverse and friendly team and we work closely with those in the hospital based teams at Guy's and St Thomas'. The hospital sites offer multidisciplinary team wound care and review, musculoskeletal services and podiatric surgery. We schedule regular education sessions where we can all come together to enhance our knowledge as a team and have quarterly team meetings alongside the hospital based team.

Job responsibilities:

• To be responsible and accountable for the complex assessment, diagnosis and treatment of new and existing patients with a wide variety of Podiatric complaints.
• This includes diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, musculoskeletal disorders, vascular and neurological disorders, systemic diseases, chronic pathologies, emergency treatments, wound management, paediatrics, deformities, and nail and skin pathologies.
• You will be expected to treat a wide variety of patient groups including those with special needs, the housebound, children, the elderly adults, vulnerable groups and those from different cultural backgrounds with the possibility of communication barriers.
• To demonstrate sound clinical expertise and knowledge in the management of serious and high-risk pathologies, whilst keeping fully informed of current best practice and becoming involved with the development, updating and implementation of evidence based practice guidelines.
• The provision, organisation and evaluation of highly specialised Podiatric care plans tailored to patients medical needs with regular review and the ability to identify and co-ordinate further interventions.
• Make referrals to other specialists from within the department and outside, facilitating safe and appropriate discharge where indicated.
• To be aware and recognise the contribution of our assessment within the whole health care package/profile.
• To undertake specialist diabetes and high-risk sessions for the assessment and treatment of patients where duties will include: Undertaking Diabetic foot assessments and diabetic foot management and education.
• Working with challenging groups including those with mental health problems.
• Management of foot ulcers.
• To identify risk factors and to prioritise patients into risk categories.
• To arrange emergency admission into hospital when indicated.
• Providing emergency clinical and domiciliary care.
• To participate in department rotations through areas of clinical speciality, for example, Nail surgery, MSK and Acute rotations at our hospital sites.
• To provide care in a variety of settings often involving the ability to work alone and independently, and also with the Podiatry team.
• Such settings will include (but is not limited to): Community Health Centres, Residential and Nursing Homes, Patients Homes.
• To be able and willing to work in some areas with high levels of social deprivation.
• To have highly developed physical skills, precision hand/eye coordination requiring frequent concentration for prolonged periods, and a comprehensive knowledge base, for example, highly skilled debridement techniques for acute/chronic, neuropathic and ischaemic wounds.
• To conduct local anaesthetic techniques and minor surgery procedures without assistance, with the ability to manage anaphylactic shock if required.
• To be responsible for the professional day-to-day coordination and management of patients caseloads and clinics.
• This will involve good communication with other podiatrists and administrative staff to maintain good working relationships and communication.
• To ensure Trust standards and policies are adhered to.
• To be responsible for maintaining professional, accurate and comprehensive patient records using the S.O.A.P format, managing appointment systems and maintaining, monitoring and securing equipment, instruments, pharmacy and stock levels.
• To contribute to the strategic development and improvement of existing services and facilitate the instigation of new service development by working as part of an innovative team.
• Participate in audit and service evaluation.
• To be safely involved in the provision of Foot Health education and appropriate specialist advice sensitively to patients, relatives and careers, and to organise and participate in health promotion activities and training events to groups, colleagues, professionals and individuals.
• To frequently prescribe and apply the application of technology for measurement, monitoring and treatment using specialist complex equipment such as Gait analysis systems and Doppler ultrasound.

Person Specification:

Experience

• Essential: Experience of treating high risk caseload, Experience in assessing patients (medical, neurological and vascular status), Experience of domiciliary work, Broad clinical experience in general Podiatry.
• Desirable: Experience of working in a MDT Diabetic Foot Clinic, Experience of treating MSK conditions, Experience of minor surgery techniques.

Skills

• Essential: Able to work autonomously or as part of a team, Excellent communication skills shown through quality of application submitted, Commitment to continuous improvement of service.
• Desirable: Interdisciplinary working skills, Skills in supervising and training others, Skills in clinical audit.

Knowledge/Qualifications

• Essential: Degree or a Diploma in Podiatry, HCPC registered.
• Desirable: Relevant MSc, Driving licence.

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. Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.