MSK Specialist Podiatrist
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Overview
To provide clinical expertise in the treatment of MSK foot problems and in the education and supervision of less experienced members of the Podiatry team. To develop and deliver a high quality seamless MSK foot service within the community working with the other senior B7 leads to embed excellent care. To perform comprehensive MSK podiatric assessment of adults and children with diverse presentations and complex physical and medical conditions. To provide a clinical diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised or group treatment programme. To hold responsibility for own caseload working as an autonomous clinical expert. To triage all service referrals with a view to providing the most appropriate treatment or onward referral as required. To work within and have a good understanding of Trust clinical guidelines, national and professional body guidelines and to monitor own and others quality of practice as appropriate. Thereby managing clinical risk within your own patient caseload. To decide priorities for own work area, balancing patient related and professional demands and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the team and service. To undertake a comprehensive biomechanical and gait assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies. To use advanced clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment techniques to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis of their condition. Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent, and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care. Formulate and deliver individual MSK treatment programmes based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and advanced treatment options. Advance treatment options can include injection therapy, strapping, manipulation, acupuncture as guided by individual competence. To evaluate and review agreed patient treatment outcomes to facilitate discharge of patients to self-care/onward referral. To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with adult or child patients and their carers to progress treatment programmes. To prescribe, modify, and fit off the shelf orthoses/insoles as required. LNKD1_UKTJ
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
* Health Care Provider
Industries
* Medical Practices
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