Overview
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Role
Are you passionate about improving foot health and enhancing quality of life? Join our podiatry team and make a real difference to the lives of patients every day!
As a Community Podiatrist, you will assess and provide clearly planned podiatric care packages to patients with a variety of care needs, with the aim of maintaining independence and mobility. You will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating with other healthcare professionals to deliver high quality, patient centred care. Whether you're a newly registered Podiatrist or experienced practitioner, this is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills in a supportive and forward thinking environment.
Our offer to you:
* Rotation into the acute sector as an observer in departments such as vascular and orthopaedics.
* Encouragement and support with your career progression into advanced clinical roles and leadership roles.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, they are:
* Continuous improvement
* Accountability
* Respect
* Enthusiasm
* Support
If you share our values and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities
* You will work as part of a highly motivated team providing a high standard of clinical care in a variety of community settings, ensuring the provision of seamless care between primary and secondary care.
* You will provide treatment for patients to maintain tissue viability and relieve pain; especially patients who require specialist care packages because they are at special risk due to diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and peripheral vascular disease.
* Delivery of podiatry in clinical, domiciliary and residential home settings, usually working in isolation, always as an autonomous practitioner.
* Assessment and treatment of existing patients in line with departmental protocols using judgements involving complex facts about the patient's medical conditions, current medication and podiatric needs.
* Develop treatment plans with expected outcomes and agree with patient how these outcomes may be best achieved. Provide advice to patients on foot health matters.
* Employ stringent control of cross infection and decontamination measures during daily exposure to infectious material in domiciliary situations.
* Follow standard operating procedures for podiatry instrument use.
* Assess for nail surgery and undertake nail surgery, supervised by a senior podiatrist. Be responsible for the administration of local analgesia, observation of the patient for adverse reaction and the administration of adrenaline in the event of anaphylactic shock.
* Assess for orthotics, make and provide chair-side devices, prescribe bespoke orthotics and liaise with appropriate specialist.
* Have the capability to move and handle patients who may be immobile, wheelchair or bed bound.
* Work in patients' homes/residential homes in confined spaces, with poor lighting, inadequate seating, or restricted positions; treatment positions may be constrained by non-compliance due to physical, mental or emotional debility.
* Provide health education advice including one to one advice and education to groups of peers, professionals and patients.
* Delegate appropriate patients to the care of podiatry assistants.
* Leadership: Delegate suitable patients to podiatry assistants.
Administrative and Equality Information
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs, not NHS Jobs. We reserve the right to close vacancies when we have received a minimum number of applications. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, including those who are disabled and those who require sponsorship.
The Trust operates as a Disability Confident Employer and offers a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and who meet the minimum criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form. If you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email the provided address to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you. We require enhanced DBS checks for post holders; DBS Update Service enrollment is expected for those who need it. Trans applicants seeking DBS guidance can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people, and offering specialist inpatient and community services across physical health, mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are committed to delivering “perfect care” and are undergoing transformation to improve quality and reduce costs.
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