Band 7 High Risk Foot Specialist Acute and Community Podiatrist

Package Description

As a Band 7 High Risk Foot (HRF) Specialist Acute and Community Podiatrist, you’ll be part of our valued team.

You will feel valued as a Senior Podiatrist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• AFC Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• Plentiful on site-parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

Job Introduction

It is an exciting time to join our team in BSW, as we transform our services and patient care.

We are looking for an experienced band 7 High Risk Foot (HRF) Specialist Acute and Community Podiatrist.  The HRF Specialist Acute and Community Podiatrist will act as a clinical expert in the management of patients with long-term conditions that place them at increased risk of tissue damage and/or functional loss. This role involves delivering advanced, specialist-level care across acute settings at the Royal United Hospital (RUH), outpatient clinics, and within community services.

Flexible working and compressed hours are available and can be discussed at interview.

For further information or just an informal chat please contact Elizabeth Bowler - 07989418983 elizabeth.bowler@hcrgcaregroup.com

Main Responsibilities

•    Clinical Expertise & Advanced Practice

•    Leadership & Service Development

•    Clinical Governance & Quality Assurance

•    Education, Supervision & Mentorship

•    Collaboration & Multidisciplinary Engagement

•    Clinical Assessment & Interventions

•    Resource & Financial Management

Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will have:

•    BSc Podiatry / equivalent

•    HCPC registered

•    Postgraduate study at or equivalent to Master Level in a relevant area of clinical development such as high-risk foot or diabetes with evidence of experience and managing an advance caseload

•    Post Graduate Masters level non-medical prescribing qualification (Or willingness to undertake)

•    IR(ME)R certificate (Or willingness to undertake)

•    POM and Local anaesthetic certificates

•    Evidence of recent and relevant professional development at post graduate level

•    Extensive experience managing high-risk caseloads with advanced clinical practice and high standards of patient care.

•    Strong general and specialist podiatric assessment skills, with a focus on acute and chronic wound management.

•    Highly developed manual dexterity and physical precision, sustained over long periods.

•    Well-practiced in applying research and audit outcomes to improve clinical care for both self and team.

Please see the attached Job Description for the full list.

You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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