Main area Podiatrists Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5hrs per week) Job ref 196-LIS9763
Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Foot Health - Guys & St. Thomas's Town London Salary £56,276 - £63,176 p.a. inc. HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 19/08/2025 23:59 Interview date 03/09/2025
Specialist Diabetes Podiatrist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Diabetes Podiatrists within Guys and St. Thomas’ Hospital to further develop and work within a multi-disciplinary foot team (MDfT) service for patients with diabetes in the London Boroughs of Bexley & Greenwich. This post will require working between Guys & St. Thomas’ hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup and Queen Elizabeth Greenwich sites.
The aim is to build on the existing MDfTs in these Boroughs to develop a South East London Diabetes Foot Network with local MDfTs operating in a hub and spoke model.
Outcomes such as the impact on in hospital length of stay and reduction in numbers of patients undergoing major and minor amputations among the diabetes population in the SE London will be measured as indicators of success.
The successful candidates must have sound knowledge and the specialist skills necessary to work in this environment working alongside other health care professionals in delivering integrated care in a multi-disciplinary model. It would be beneficial to have advanced specialist knowledge of podiatry and wound care in relation to the management of high risk diabetes patients.
Main duties of the job
* Based at Queen Marys Hospital (Sidcup) but will be timetabled to work at Queen Elizabeth Hospital ( Greenwich) and Guys & St. Thomas' hospital sites.
* To triage referral and work within in the NICE guidelines.
* To assess and treat the high risk case load with advanced wound management methods
* To build a working network with all community services to benefit patients.
* Maintain the education element and referral pathways for GPs, District Nurses, Urgent Care team
* Teaching and managing junior staff
* Data collection and reporting
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield.
Podiatry servicesspreads across the Guys and St. Thomas’ hospital sites, Queen Mary's Hospital (Sidcup) and Lambeth and community.
The acute team comprises of 12 podiatrist, 1 nurse and 2 clinical assistants plus a much larger team within the Lambeth and Southwark community services.
We are committed to working in multidisciplinary environments, and patient referrals are from all main specialty areas. The team is objective led, supporting continuing professional development, staff appraisal, research and audit. Organisational Values
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See job description
* Based at Queen Marys Hospital (Sidcup) but will be timetabled to work at Queen Elizabeth Hospital ( Greenwich) and Guys & St. Thomas' hospital sites
* To triage referral and work within in the NICE guidelines.
* To assess and treat the high risk case load with advanced wound management methods
* To build a working network with all community services to benefit patients.
* Maintain the education element and referral pathways for GPs, District Nurses, Urgent Care team
* Teaching and managing junior staff
* Data collection and reporting
The service will work across borders within South East London in a collaborative approach to reduce the variation in outcomes, allowing the prompt repatriation of patients and the provision of specialist care closer to home. Initially the service will operate 5 days a week, but in time will move to working 6 days a week.
Person specification
Qualification & Knowledge
* Diploma/Degree in Podiatry/ Master’s Degree level or equivalent / HPC registration & LA administartion
* Evidence of significant practical experience with complex patients
* Post graduate training within a specialist clinical caseload
* Acute Trust experience
* Independent prescriber – see Appendix 2
Experience
* Advance specialised knowledge in relation to the high risk patient
* Experience of working in a very busy clinic
* Handling stressful situations
* Foot MDT experience
Skills
* Travelling across the network sites is essential
* Good communication skills & team player
Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Name Alpa Lakhani Job title Clinical Lead Podiatrist Email address alpa.lakhani@gstt.nhs.uk Telephone number 02071880872 Additional information
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Name: Alpa Lakhani - Clinical Lead Podiatrist
Email: Alpa.Lakhani@gstt.nhs.uk
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