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Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
About
New colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome here at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.
For our agenda for change staff, we offer a competitive benefits package with regular pay awards, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years and access to a competitive Pension Scheme to which both you and the Trust contribute.
Alongside this there are extensive training development opportunities with paid mandatory training, a protected training budget for staff and support for flexible working. We have an on-site Occupational Health Service to support you at work and have fast track access to physio, counselling and complimentary therapies.
As part of our recruitment process we can tell you more about our benefits package and you will see that we offer everything you would expect and more
Community Podiatrist
Accepting applications until: 28-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 28-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Ashton Primary Care Centre
- Cyfeiriad
- 193 Old St
- Tref
- Ashton Under Lyne
- Cod post
- OL6 7SR
- Major / Minor Region
- Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (FTC)
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £28,407 - £34,581 pro rata per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 5)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Podiatrist
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Community Podiatrist - Band 5
12 Months Fixed Term Contract - 37.5 hours Per Week
To assess diagnose, develop and implement individualised care programmes for patients with a wide variety of clinical needs, including acute or chronic neuropathies, chronic diseases, vascular problems and wound management.
As an autonomous practitioner, the post holder will also be expected to plan and manage their own caseload, which will include providing specialist care for patients with diabetes, rheumatological and biomechanical problems.
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To provide an efficient, effective and consistently high quality podiatry service. Working independently in both community and clinical settings.
New graduates will be offered supervision and mentoring for the first 6-12 months.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
- Safety
- Care
- Respect
- Communication
- Learning
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Communications
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers so as to obtain clear diagnostic information.
- Deliver appropriate foot care advice to patients and their carers.
- Promote equality, diversity and rights.
- To actively promote a healthy lifestyle to patients persuading and encouraging them to eat healthily, take up exercise and stop smoking.
- Work effectively as a member of a multi-professional team and liaise with other health professionals and agencies to provide quality care across all care boundaries - social services, hospitals and care homes.
- Maintain accurate treatment records of patients care.
- Attend department and multi-disciplinary meetings.
Responsibility for Patient Care
- To assess new patients using the locally agreed screening tool in order to establish if NHS Podiatry is appropriate.
- Provide clinically effective treatments underpinned by evidence based practice.
- Work alongside community specialist Podiatrists caring for high risk patients, children with complex needs and patients with complicated biomechanical problems.
- Following treatment plans to decide when a patient has reached their maximum potential for rehabilitation and discharge with a self-care plan.
- Work collaboratively with GP's, District Nurses and colleagues re: patients with foot ulceration requiring frequent dressing changes.
- To carry out nail surgery assessments and undertake nail surgery on a rotational basis
- To provide patients and their carers with advice to enable them to contribute to their management plan.
- Make appropriate referrals to podiatric specialities and other Health Care Professionals.
- Discharge patients from the service if they do not meet the criteria for podiatry care
- Empower patients for whom NHS Podiatry is deemed unnecessary to care for their own feet. This usually involves teaching through demonstration to either the patient or their carer and ensuring they have a full understanding of what to do.
- Assess all patients requiring a home visit, applying the appropriate mobility assessment tool.
- To participate in the diabetes foot screening programme within Primary Care, GP surgeries and Community clinics.
- Create and maintain accurate and comprehensive patient records to facilitate a high standard of patient care and to comply with medical-legal requirements.
- To have knowledge of medical problems and drug management in order to assess and discuss complications relevant not only to the foot, but the whole person.
Planning and organising
- To be responsible for the day to day planning of personal workload in order to meet the demands of the job role.
- Take responsibility for maintaining personal and clinical diary.
- Deal with emergencies and their management, including the consequences of changes to planned timetable.
- Flexible working will be required; weekend and evening work may be necessary dependant on service demands.
Responsibilities for Physical and / or Financial Resources
- Be responsible for ensuring stock levels are maintained and kept secure.
- Maintain a clean, risk free clinical environment.
- Podiatrists will undertake a risk assessment for all domiciliary work.
- Oversee the safe transfer of patients to and from the treatment couch.
- Attend any departmental specific training e.g. prevention and control of infection, use of new equipment.
- Be responsible for the use of medical devices including day to day maintenance and fault reporting at all treatment locations.
- Ensure that Health and Safety legislation is complied with at all times COSHH, risk assessment, control of infection, decontamination.
- Wear protective clothing provided and follow PPE guidelines.
- Ensure the effective and efficient use of clinical resources.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation
- To be aware of, comment on/or actively participate in changes to policies, procedures or service developments and implement these once agreed.
- Respond to trust directives as required.
- Be actively involved in quality initiatives to improve service delivery.
- To follow departmental policies and guidelines but have the discretion to make clinical diagnosis and decisions within professional boundaries.
Responsibilities for Human Resources and Leadership
- Be flexible in responding to the needs of the service and provide cover for other podiatrists at short notice or known periods of absence.
- To delegate patients to assistant grade staff and oversee their clinical work.
Responsibilities for Teaching and Training
- Participate in foot health education to patients, carers and other staff groups.
- To participate in placement of podiatry students and other Health care staff e.g. district nurses, GP trainees and support new or less experienced work colleagues to adapt to the workplace.
- Ensure attendance at trust and department mandatory training e.g. BLS, fire, health and safety, moving and handling, equality and diversity.
- Participate in Continuous Professional Development activities to promote self and service development.
Responsibilities for data and information resources
- Ensure treatment notes are completed to the Trust standard for every contact with a patient.
- Input data into the Trusts IT system following patient contact.
- To co-operate in the collection of additional information for projects or patient surveys.
Research, Development and Audit
- Participate in clinical governance activities and development of outcomes, standards, guidelines, policies and protocols.
- Participate in professional research trials and audit as required.
- Demonstrate a commitment to CPD to meet personal and service needs.
- Learn through clinical supervision and sharing of positive and negative events.
- Maintain knowledge of evidence based practice and accepted best practice.
- Maintain a professional portfolio
- To carry out regular evaluation of own assessment work re outcome statistics.
Physical Skills and Effort
- Demonstrate capability to move and handle patients who may be immobile, wheelchair or bedbound.
- Car driver/owner
- Able to travel the whole of the district as required.
- Physical skills are required for repetitive movements and force needed for cutting hard/thick nails. Repetitive pattern of work doing fine exacting work.
- Requirement to concentrate for up to 3½ hours twice per day. Checking notes, assessing and treating patients and writing up case notes. There is a need for speed as well as intense concentration. Intense concentration is required for a shift when performing nail surgery, including administration of local anaesthetic whilst performing intricate, invasive surgical procedure.
New colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome here at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.
For our agenda for change staff, we offer a competitive benefits package with regular pay awards, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years and access to a competitive Pension Scheme to which both you and the Trust contribute. These terms and conditions are not applicable for Non-Executive positions.
Alongside this there are extensive training development opportunities with paid mandatory training, a protected training budget for staff and support for flexible working. We have an on-site Occupational Health Service to support you at work and have fast track access to physio, counselling and complimentary therapies.
At Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, we welcome applications from all candidates.
At the Trust we always adhere to the UK Visas and Immigration rules pertaining to right to work; candidates who do not hold UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) citizenship are required to obtain a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) to be eligible to apply for either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa which allows them to work in the UK, unless they have eligibility to work in the UK via another route.
To avoid disappointment, candidates wishing to apply for a role at the Trust who do not hold UK or Republic of Ireland citizenship and who would require a CoS from an employer, should carry out a self-assessment process to identify the likelihood of obtaining CoS by visiting Work in the UK.
The Trust is committed to making a difference to the environment. Our "Save Planet Tameside & Glossop" strategy means that we work towards protecting our natural environment and "green" workplace practices at all times.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- BSc/Post graduate Diploma in Podiatric Medicine
- Health & Care Professions Council registration
- Certificate in local anaesthesia
- Member of the professional body
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Good communication (written and verbal), negotiation and persuasive skills
- Well motivated with a positive attitude to developing the Service
- Able to handle sensitive situations
- Well-developed problem solving skills
- Flexibility in handling work pressures
- Strong commitment to personal development
- Able to work on own initiative
Meini prawf dymunol
- Training/talks/group-work skills
Experience
Meini prawf dymunol
- Work with the public in another sphere, some NHS experience
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Professional knowledge acquired through formal degree training at University
Meini prawf dymunol
- including administration of adrenalin
Work Related Circumstances
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Able to travel across Tameside and Glossop
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Hayley Rathburn
- Teitl y swydd
- Community Podiatry Team Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0161 342 7787
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