Advanced Podiatrist

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 (including financial / physical resources and staffing)

To demonstrate leadership by means of:

1. Delivering change within sphere of practice, when and where indicated, to improve service delivery.

2. Influencing, motivating, supporting and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organisation.

To provide 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 patient/clients within sphere of practice

To identify innovations and lead the implementation of new working practices in conjunction with patients/ service users, health, wellbeing, local authority and third sector partners.

To take responsibility for their own high level and complex decision making and the decisions of their team which effect service delivery.

To train, supervise / case manage and performance manage staff and students. This will include for example the use of formal appraisal documentation, monitoring sickness absence etc.

To manage resources including stock control to ensure they relate to the overall objectives and responsibilities of the organisation.

CLINICAL

To be 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 and act as a named practitioner.

To triage patients with highly complex needs.

To undertake highly complex clinical assessments of patients/ service users within sphere of advanced practice.

To 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.

To provide advanced clinical advice, support, training to patients/ service users, families, carers and professional colleagues to improve their journey and their health and well being.

To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in your care.

Registered practitioners who are non medical prescribers are accountable for their prescribing activities by ensuring they are aware of their Professional accountability and any restrictions or special considerations in their prescribing practice.

To develop and maintain the high level clinical skills required to work as an advanced practitioner.

Where the administration of drugs is a requirement, this should be undertaken in line with trust policies and procedures and in following the NMC Guidelines for administration of Medicines Act 1992 and Misuse of Drugs Act 1991.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

To maintain own professional/ personal development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as appropriate into your work. To support junior staff to do likewise

Ensure all mandatory training is accessed and kept up to date

To be an active member of relevant training programmes attending and delivering presentations at staff meetings/tutorials and by attending relevant professional short courses and being a reflective practitioner

To participate in the supervision scheme as supervisee and supervisor when appropriate.

To develop and deliver relevant evidence based training to patients, families, carers, Health and Wellbeing and local authority colleagues and third sector providers.

To provide specific training as required to the patient, family, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team on the clinical and therapeutic management of an individual to support their health and wellbeing.

CLINICAL GOVERNANCE / RESEARCH AUDIT

Registered Practitioners are required to evidence maintenance of their registration with the relevant regulatory body and work to their Code of Professional Conduct.

To benchmark current service delivery against local and national clinical guidelines and standards of care.

To lead on current best practice, based on the bench marking outcomes.

To translate local and national guidelines and train Health and Wellbeing staff to ensure they have the skills and knowledge required to deliver effective services.

To measure and evaluate own work and current practices through the use of evidence based projects, audit, research, statistical information and outcome measures and lead others in doing so.

To network with practitioner colleagues within the trust and across the North West and Nationally, to learn together and share good practice.

To interpret and implement quality assurance practices within own work situation.

To identify and minimise clinical and non clinical risk to minimise risk of harm to patients, staff & visitors.

Contributes to the formulation and implementation of clinical policies and procedures as appropriate.

COMMUNICATION

To communicate complex patient and service related information effectively to Health and Wellbeing and local authority colleagues and third sector agencies.

Use complex communication skills and knowledge when working with patients, their families and other provider agencies.

Demonstrates professional sensitivity and empathy during the emotional demand of high exposure to distressing circumstances where there may be difficulties in accepting or understanding.

To involve the patient and the family/carers in all relevant discussions about their management and decision that are made about treatment techniques and facilitating patient involvement in the planning development, delivery and evaluation of the service.

To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.

To maintain accurate comprehensive and up-to-date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters.

To collect appropriate data and statistics for the use in the review of the service delivery.

To use appropriate information technology skills for communication when required.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent in Podiatric Medicine
• Current professional registration with HPC as Podiatrist and responsibility for maintaining this registration
• Masters module/post grad qualification in relevant field of clinical expertise (or working towards) / post-grad qualification/equivalent knowledge & experience to masters level
• Certificate in Local analgesic as recommended by HPC
• Evidence of CPD in related field of clinical expertise
• Current accredited field work educator
• Supplementary Medical Prescribing/willingness to undertake

Desirable

• Hold current IRMER certificate
• MSc

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Understanding of clinical governance framework and implications for practice including audit and research governance
• In-depth understanding of current NHS/government policy/Public Health/NICE guidelines on organisational change and the ability to adapt these appropriately to local service needs through publication of documents
• Knowledge and appreciation of lone working risks - policy and procedure
• Change management skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Treatment of a broad range of conditions relating to clinical speciality
• Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice
• Evidence of leading and implementing clinical change
• Supervision and/or mentoring of staff/students
• Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working
• Highly advanced and specialised practice skills in field of expertise

Values

Essential

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

Essential

• Ability to communicate highly complex pathologies and diagnostic reasoning to all levels in the medical and non-medical field at the appropriate level
• Sound knowledge of psycho-social problems and ability to gain patient confidence and co-operation
• Show initiative, enthusiasm and motivation for excellence and the development of self and others
• Experience of stakeholder negotiation and persuasion skills
• Sound understand of Safeguarding agenda including MCA and DOLS
• Problem solving /Decision making in relation to clinical practice
• Able to work independently as lead specialist, demonstrating good leadership skills
• Demonstrable team worker
• Developing and providing health education and information in range of formats as appropriate for wide range of stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills both written and verbal
• Ability to analyse and interpret data/complex evidence and apply to practice
• Good competent IT knowledge including ability to use range of Microsoft office products to fulfil role (e.g., Word and Excel)

Other

Essential

• Awareness, understanding and competency to operate machinery and equipment according to local operating procedures and Medical Device regulations
• Ability to work flexibly across the MCFT footprint to meet business needs and service delivery objectives e.g., delivery of 7 day working as required and including requirement to support evening clinics as required in line with
• Commissioning Intentions and NHS Modernisation agenda
• Able to work within core clinical hours in line with meeting the needs of the service
• Must be assessed as having level of fitness to carry out duties/tasks after reasonable adjustments under DDA 1995 have been made
• Able to work under pressure and constantly respond and adapt to frequent changes in circumstances

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).