Job summary
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHCT) Diabetes Podiatry Services are looking for a highly motivated, proactive and experiencedpodiatrist to join their team.
The diabetes podiatry team are an integral part of the diabetes service and also work into wider multidisciplinary teams to the benefit of patients. This role will provide highly specialised podiatry care for people living with diabetes across Northumbria Trust.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
To deliver a high standard of evidence based, diabetes podiatry care in highly specialised areas including wound care and Charcot management.
To work as an integral part of the diabetes multi-disciplinary team providing a high standard of clinical care in highly specialised areas with substantial post NHS registration.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To act as a diabetes foot specialist, acting as a resource and providing specialist podiatry advice and training for the multi-disciplinary team and other health professionals within the Trust and externally e.g. GP practices.
- To prescribe and implement care plans for people with diabetes by assigning individual risk stratification to provide the appropriate package of care to fulfil national guidelines.
- To be responsible for the planning and management of highly complex and specialised case loads involving the implementation and coordination of highly specialised treatment regimes working in a variety of settings e.g. acute, community and GP practices.
- To be responsible to the development of and adhere to the podiatry department and Trusts policies, strategies and objectives.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To act as a diabetes foot specialist, acting as a resource and providing specialist podiatry advice and training for the multi-disciplinary team and other health professionals within the Trust and externally e.g. GP practices.
- To prescribe and implement care plans for people with diabetes by assigning individual risk stratification to provide the appropriate package of care to fulfil national guidelines.
- To be responsible for the planning and management of highly complex and specialised case loads involving the implementation and coordination of highly specialised treatment regimes working in a variety of settings e.g. acute, community and GP practices.
- To be responsible to the development of and adhere to the podiatry department and Trusts policies, strategies and objectives.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- Diploma or degree in podiatry
- Registrant of Health Professions Council
- Local anaesthesia certificate
- Evidence of advanced post graduate specialist training encompassing society of podiatry core module and specialist training in diabetes and its wider aspects or working towards
- Evidence of gold standard casting techniques
- Evidence of advanced training and treatment techniques applicable to the at-risk / high risk foot in diabetes or working towards recognised national diabetes foot qualification
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Substantial post-graduate experience
- Experience of minor surgical procedures e.g. nail avulsion
Desirable
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
- Evidence of training in the behaviour change cycle and advanced communication skills
- Experience of supervising podiatry assistant and diabetes podiatrists
- Evidence of training in the behaviour change cycle and advanced communication skills
- City & Guilds 7318 or working towards
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- Diploma or degree in podiatry
- Registrant of Health Professions Council
- Local anaesthesia certificate
- Evidence of advanced post graduate specialist training encompassing society of podiatry core module and specialist training in diabetes and its wider aspects or working towards
- Evidence of gold standard casting techniques
- Evidence of advanced training and treatment techniques applicable to the at-risk / high risk foot in diabetes or working towards recognised national diabetes foot qualification
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Substantial post-graduate experience
- Experience of minor surgical procedures e.g. nail avulsion
Desirable
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
- Evidence of training in the behaviour change cycle and advanced communication skills
- Experience of supervising podiatry assistant and diabetes podiatrists
- Evidence of training in the behaviour change cycle and advanced communication skills
- City & Guilds 7318 or working towards
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
