Podiatrist

Job summary

This is an excellent and exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, flexible and highly motivated podiatrist to join our progressive team with a key focus on providing musculoskeletal (MSK) podiatry. You will be involved in the assessment and planning of individual patient care, together with orthotic provision, and work both independently and as part of a team, so good diagnostic, communication and team building skills are essential.

The successful candidate will also be involved in diabetic foot protection clinics and the acute diabetic foot multidisciplinary team together with wound care management. There are opportunities to take part in nail surgery, audit and service development initiatives. We also support patients and services through education talks.

You will work alongside experienced podiatrists and encouraged in your professional development. Indeed, we are committed to CPD and promoting evidence-based practice and a high standard of care throughout the service. We offer an individual training fund, regular 1:1 clinical supervision meetings, peer review and in-house CPD to support the development of our staff.

You will have excellent established clinical skills and experience of treating patients with a wide variety of podiatric MSK and long-term conditions, especially those with high-risk clinical needs, and there is an emphasis on wound management. Our aim is to deliver excellent quality care to patients in order to maintain mobility and independence.

Main duties of the job

*To assess, diagnose, develop and implement treatment plans for patients with MSK lower limb and foot pathology.

*To manufacture orthoses.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Avalon House

Chesil Street

Winchester

Hampshire

SO23 0HU

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Avalon House

Chesil Street

Winchester

Hampshire

SO23 0HU

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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