An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified and committed person to work with the mid Mersey team. The successful applicant will work within St Helens and Knowsley providing care to patients in a variety of settings across mid Mersey place. The role will involve regular travel across multiple sites; therefore, the post holder must be able to meet the travel requirements of this post. Please indicate on your application how you meet this requirement.
To work as an Advanced Podiatrist with a high degree of autonomy across the multidisciplinary setting.
Advanced Clinical Responsibilities
* Take high level responsibility for the triage, clinical assessments and diagnosis of highly complex health and well being needs within a defined sphere of practice.
* Implement, evaluate and modify highly complex care interventions which you have developed to meet those needs.
* Provide high level care as specified below for a client group and work across professional disciplines, coordinating activities as required.
* Leading the Podiatry Team on the management of patients within a biomechanical setting. This will include the assessment, diagnosis, development and implementation of highly specialist programmes of care to patients as well as providing expert advice on the management of complex patients to others within the team.
* The post holder will lead on the development and implementation of service innovations within their portfolio and disseminate training to the Podiatry Team. Performance management will form an integral part of this role.
* Deliver high level and complex triage, clinical assessment diagnostics, treatment and evaluation of the needs within Health and Well-being.
* Provide leadership, promote a learning culture for colleagues and other agencies, lead service innovations and demonstrate high level problem solving.
* Ensure excellence in service delivery through personal and service development, underpinned by evidence based practice and research, embedded in the quality assurance agenda.
* Drive innovation, manage the change process to ensure the service continues to be flexible and proactive to reflect the needs of the wider Health and Wellbeing community.
Managerial / Leadership
* Deliver change within sphere of practice, when and where indicated, to improve service delivery.
* Influence, motivate, support and enable others to contribute towards effectiveness and success of the organisation.
* 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.
* Identify innovations and lead the implementation of new working practices in conjunction with patients, service users, health, wellbeing, local authority and third sector partners.
* Take responsibility for your own high level and complex decision making and the decisions of your team which affect service delivery.
* Train, supervise / case manage and performance manage staff and students. This will include formal appraisal documentation and monitoring sickness absence.
* Manage resources including stock control to ensure they relate to overall objectives and responsibilities of the organisation.
Clinical Core Duties
* Be responsible for the specialist assessment of complex care needs and development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care using a high degree of autonomy and act as a named practitioner.
* Triage patients with highly complex needs.
* Undertake highly complex clinical assessments of patients / service users within sphere of advanced practice.
* 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.
* Provide advanced clinical advice, support, training to patients / service users, families, carers and professional colleagues to improve their journey and health and well being.
* 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 prescribing activities by ensuring awareness of professional accountability and any restrictions or special considerations.
* Develop and maintain the high level clinical skills required to work as an advanced practitioner.
* Where administration of drugs is required, undertake 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 & Development
* Maintain own professional / personal development (CPD) by keeping abreast of new trends and developments and incorporate them as appropriate.
* Support junior staff to do likewise.
* Ensure mandatory training is accessed and kept up to date.
* Be an active member of relevant training programmes, delivering presentations at staff meetings/tutorials and attending professional short courses.
* Participate in the supervision scheme as supervisee and supervisor when appropriate.
* Develop and deliver relevant evidence based training to patients, families, carers, Health and Wellbeing and local authority colleagues and third sector providers.
* Provide specific training as required to the patient, family, carers and multidisciplinary team on clinical and therapeutic management of an individual.
Clinical Governance / Research Audit
* Evidence maintenance of registration with relevant regulatory body and work to professional conduct code.
* Benchmark current service delivery against local and national clinical guidelines and standards of care.
* Lead on current best practice based on benchmarking outcomes.
* Translate local and national guidelines and train staff to ensure skills and knowledge required to deliver effective services.
* Measure and evaluate own work and current practices through evidence based projects, audit, research, statistics and outcome measures and lead others.
* Network with practitioner colleagues within the trust, across the North West and nationally to share best practice.
* Interpret and implement quality assurance practices within own work situation.
* Identify and minimise clinical and non clinical risk to minimise risk of harm to patients, staff & visitors.
* Contribute to formulation and implementation of clinical policies and procedures as appropriate.
Communication
* 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.
* Demonstrate professional sensitivity and empathy during emotional demand of high exposure to distressing circumstances.
* Involve the patient and the family/carers in all discussions about their management and decisions about treatment techniques and facilitate patient involvement in planning, development, delivery and evaluation of the service.
* Assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and work within a legal framework with patients lacking capacity to consent to treatment.
* Maintain accurate comprehensive and up-to-date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results in reports and letters.
* Collect appropriate data and statistics for use in review of the service delivery.
* Use appropriate information technology skills for communication when required.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
This advert closes on Monday 20 Apr 2026.
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