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Specialist Podiatrist
The closing date is 09 July 2025
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHCT) Community Podiatry Services are looking for a highly motivated, proactive and focused qualified Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) registered Specialist Podiatrist to join their department. Essential qualifications required to apply are: Diploma/ Degree in Podiatric Medicine, HPC registration, local anaesthetic certificate, computer literate and an understanding of pathways of care.
Toassess, diagnose, treat and evaluate abnormalities and diseases related to the foot and lower limbin people of all ages. provide treatment for high-risk patient groups such as the elderly and those with increased risk of amputation.
To provide high quality support to others in the team and work into wider MDTs to the benefit of patients.
Main duties of the job
You will be joining a highly motivated and friendly professional team. Duties will include delivering evidence-based podiatry within clinics and patients homes. The post covers the North Tyneside locality.
To be a strong candidate we are looking for a Specialist Podiatrist able to integrate into multidisciplinary teams, function within a supportive peer group and display the strength of character to work autonomously. There is a requirement to support and develop others including podiatry students and other professions, podiatry assistants and newly qualified staff.
This is a full time position.
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!
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Job responsibilities
To work as part of a highly motivated team, with NHS post-registration experience and/or having completed a band 6 competency based programme. The job entails autonomous working without supervision across community and acute settings providing a high standard of quality clinical care.
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 to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
The post holder will provide professional, quality planned programmes of podiatry care to a specified caseload of patients based on their clinical needs and provide specialist care in order to maintain mobility, independence, tissue viability and to relieve discomfort especially for those patients with diabetes, circulatory disorders, neuropathy, rheumatoid arthritis and biomechanical pathologies.
The post-holder must be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, acting as a source of professional advice to patients, carers, GPs and other healthcare professionals and will be expected to contribute to the development of the Podiatry Department and to adhere to Trust and Departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Have a relevant diploma/ degree in Chiropody/ Podiatric Medicine from a recognised institution and have previous accumulated postgraduate experience
* Demonstrate continued registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
* Have a certificate in local anaesthesia
* Prescribing for Podiatrists
* Diploma in Diabetes Care
* Health Education Certificate
* Teachers Certificate
* Preparation for Mentoring Course
* Radiology and Diagnostic Skills
* Shoe Fitting Skills
* ECDL European Computer Driving License
Experience & Knowledge
* Have a history of continual professional development whilst continuing to attend organised departmental and regional/ national events. The post holder will be expected to have a high degree of knowledge over a wide range of clinical conditions including diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, peripheral vascular disease, biomechanics and must have developed a high level of manual dexterity.
* Experience of working in the NHS and completion of a Senior II competency programme.
* Experience in specialist areas of work, i.e. minor nail surgery, biomechanics, rheumatology and managing the 'at risk or 'high risk' foot
* Experience working single handed and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of treatment planning and discharge planning according to clinical need
* Range of relevant short courses.
* Held a previous post in the relevant field.
Skills & Abilities
* Specialised knowledge of Diabetes, Rheumatology, Biomechanics, Wound Management gained through short courses, CPD and in-house training
* Be able to supervise and mentor.
* Basic IT skills to aid with audit and data collection.
Other Requirements
* It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
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.
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