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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

About
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Contact
- Address
- Trust Headquarters
- Warneford Hospital
- Warneford Lane
- Headington
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7JX
- Contact Number
- 01865 901000
Community Diabetes Lead Podiatrist - Cowley, Oxford
Closed for applications on: 1-Feb-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 1-Feb-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Podiatry Clinic - Raglan House Cowley
- Address
- 23 Between Towns Road
- Town
- Oxford
- Postcode
- OX4 3LX
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9 Day Fortnight Pattern option)
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum | Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Community Health Services
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Do you have the enthusiasm, interest and energy to be a part of a team delivering excellent care to patients at high risk of limb loss?
We have a Band 7 Clinical Leadership post to join our friendly City Team based in Oxford City, Cowley.
Join us and help make a difference by providing advanced care to patients in community clinic settings.
The department is keen to support and develop our podiatry clinical leads. The post includes clinical development and funding to support undertaking relevant Post Graduate courses i.e: Independent Prescribing, ACP Roles etc.
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In this role you will be responsible for delivering a high quality, accessible and timely evidence based clinical pathway for patients, supporting your
local community podiatry team with high risk/wound clinics.
As the lead podiatrist you will provide clinical leadership to that clinical pathway and take responsibility in educating colleagues and training staff with your specialist knowledge. You will have the opportunity to lead on the Training of Apprentice Podiatrists, CSW's and mentoring newly qualified clinicians as well as students on placement. The lead podiatrist must have excellent communication skills whilst working as part of a team as well as the ability to work independently.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applications are invited from motivated BSc qualified and HCPC registered podiatrists with NHS experience who are keen to advance their clinical, professional and leadership skills. Clinicians with little leadership experience but who show enthusiasm to develop their clinical career in
this area are also encouraged to apply.
This post is based in North East Oxfordshire, and the post holder will also be required to visit patients homes, attend meetings or training across the wider county. Own car is essential.
We value our employees’ health and well-being and operate on a nine day fortnight working pattern which entitles staff to a day off every other week. As a department we also welcome other flexible working applications. We also hope to be able to offer a relocation allowance incentive to recruit to this post.
So, if you are looking for a challenging, varied and flexible role that allows you to develop your clinical and leadership skills then we would like to hear from you.
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
Applicant requirements
Person specification
experience
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate NHS work experience including experience treating high risk patients
- Teaching/training of colleagues/students/health care professionals/patients/public
- Comprehensive working knowledge of NHS podiatry service provision
Desirable criteria
- Ability to interpret X-ray films
- Prescriber status or evidence of understanding of relevant common prescription medicines
- Mentorship/teaching ability to support the development of Specialist Podiatrists (Band 6) and Podiatrists (Band 5)
qualifications
Essential criteria
- MA/MSc or equivalent level of academic ability/experience
- BSc Podiatry (or diploma in Podiatric Medicine with equivalent experience)
- HCPC registration
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Relevant postgraduate certificates or postgraduate diploma (or to be achieved within agreed timescale)
- C&G teaching certificate
skills
Essential criteria
- Initiative – always challenging practices and working procedures to improve service delivery
- Clinical leadership and expertise in given field
- Self-motivated – seeking to improve service delivery, reading research papers, up to date with broad clinical and political professional developments
- Progressive clinical practice – effective analysis and decision making in wound management, biomechanical gait analysis and nail surgery
- Teaching/training of colleagues/students/health care professionals/patients/public
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of budget management
- Prescriber status or evidence of understanding of relevant common prescription medicines
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Howard
- Job title
- Interim Podiatry Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07717652454
- Additional information
Informal visits or conversations are encouraged should you wish to find out more!
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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