Highly Specialist Podiatrist in Northampton

We are looking for an experienced and motivated HCPC registered podiatrist to join our Community Podiatry Service as a Highly Specialist Podiatrist covering Knowsley and St Helens on a permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about leading high-quality community podiatry services and supporting teams to deliver safe, effective and person-centred care across a range of community settings.

The post holder will have responsibility for the delivery of the clinical service within the defined area, providing visible leadership. You will play a key role in ensuring services are efficient, effective, well-co-ordinated and responsive, with quality and patient experience at the centre of everything you do. The role will involve regular travel across multiple sites; therefore, the post holder must be able to meet the travel requirements of this post.

Main duties of the job:

• The Advanced clinician will take high level responsibility for the triage, clinical assessments and diagnosis of highly complex health and well-being needs within a defined sphere of practice.
• They will implement, evaluate and modify highly complex care/interventions which they have developed to meet those needs.
• The Advanced clinician will provide high level care as specified below for a client group and work across professional disciplines, co-ordinating activities as required.
• To work as a Highly Specialist Podiatrist with a high degree of autonomy across the multidisciplinary setting.
• Leading the Podiatry Team on the management of patients, including assessment, diagnosis, development and implementation of highly specialist programmes of care to patients.
• Providing expert advice on the management of complex patients to others within the team.
• Leading on the development and implementation of service innovations within their portfolio, as well as the development and dissemination of training to the Podiatry Team.

Job responsibilities:

• Delivering high level and complex triage, clinical assessment diagnostics, treatment and evaluation of the needs within Health and Well-being.
• Providing leadership, promoting a learning culture for colleagues and other agencies, leading service innovations and demonstrating high level problem solving.
• Ensuring excellence in service delivery through personal and service development, underpinned by evidence-based practice and research, embedded in the quality assurance agenda.
• Driving innovation, managing the change process to ensure your service continues to be flexible and proactive to reflect the needs of the wider Health and Wellbeing community.

Managerial / Leadership:

• Demonstrating leadership by delivering change within sphere of practice to improve service delivery.
• Influencing, motivating, supporting and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organisation.
• Providing high level advice and guidance in working with colleagues locally to ensure best practice across all disciplines in the assessment, treatment and long-term management of patients/clients.
• Identifying innovations and leading the implementation of new working practices in conjunction with patients/service users, health, wellbeing, local authority and third sector partners.
• Taking responsibility for their own high level and complex decision making and the decisions of their team which affect service delivery.
• Training, supervising/case managing and performance managing staff and students.
• Managing resources including stock control to ensure they relate to the overall objectives and responsibilities of the organisation.

Clinical:

• Responsible for the specialist assessment of complex care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care using a high degree of autonomy.
• Triage patients with highly complex needs.
• Undertake highly complex clinical assessments of patients/service users within sphere of advanced practice.
• Determine a clinical diagnosis and make high level decisions regarding appropriate treatment/care plans.
• Implement highly complex care/interventions according to clinical need.
• Evaluate highly complex care/interventions based on evidence from clinical outcomes and best practice.
• Provide advanced clinical advice, support, training to patients/service users, families, carers and professional colleagues.
• Be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in your care.

Learning and Development:

• Maintain own professional/personal development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments.
• Support junior staff to do likewise.
• Ensure all mandatory training is accessed and kept up to date.
• Be an active member of relevant training programmes attending and delivering presentations at staff meetings/tutorials.
• Participate in the supervision scheme as supervisee and supervisor when appropriate.
• Develop and deliver relevant evidence-based training to patients, families, carers, Health and Wellbeing and local authority colleagues.

Clinical Governance / Research Audit:

• Evidence maintenance of registration with the relevant regulatory body and work to their Code of Professional Conduct.
• Benchmark current service delivery against local and national clinical guidelines and standards of care.
• Lead on current best practice, based on the benchmarking outcomes.
• Translate local and national guidelines and train Health and Wellbeing staff.
• Measure and evaluate own work and current practices through evidence-based projects, audit, research, statistical information and outcome measures.
• Network with practitioner colleagues within the trust and across the North West and Nationally.
• Interpret and implement quality assurance practices within own work situation.
• Identify and minimise clinical and non-clinical risk to minimise risk of harm to patients, staff & visitors.

Communication:

• Communicate complex patient and service-related information effectively to Health and Wellbeing and local authority colleagues.
• Use complex communication skills and knowledge when working with patients, their families and other provider agencies.
• Demonstrate professional sensitivity and empathy during the emotional demand of high exposure to distressing circumstances.
• Involve the patient and the family/carers in all relevant discussions about their management.
• Assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• Maintain accurate comprehensive and up-to-date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements.
• Collect appropriate data and statistics for the use in the review of the service delivery.
• Use appropriate information technology skills for communication when required.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Degree/Diploma in Podiatric Medicine, Master's degree/module/postgraduate qualification in relevant area of clinical expertise, up to date HCPC Registration, evidence of up-to-date CPD Portfolio, POM-A/LA certificate.
• Skills: Excellent communication skills, good organisational and time management skills, ability to manage own caseload and prioritise work, ability to communicate complex information to patients, carers and staff, ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience: Evidence of expertise in podiatry field, supervision of staff and students, effective change management and problem-solving experience.
• Knowledge: An understanding of the varied and complex needs of the patient group, understanding of Shared Decision Making, understanding of local, national, professional policies/guidance.
• Values: Continuous improvement, accountability, respect, enthusiasm, support.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.