This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Podiatrist in Diabetic Foot Care to join our combined Podiatry North and B&H locality teams on a permanent basis. The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership in diabetic foot care across the localities, though most of the clinical activity will be in the North locality. This post offers the chance for someone to develop their clinical and leadership skills by providing a high level of foot care to the community while offering supervision and mentorship to colleagues. The Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist provides an advanced level of clinical and professional leadership across the Podiatry North / Brighton & Hove localities and to provide specialist clinical advice to colleagues regarding complex patients who will primarily present in the North locality. They will work with the Professional Lead to ensure staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered. The Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist will work with the Operational Team Leads and the Clinical Services Manager to develop key partnerships and to ensure services continue to develop in line with Trust transformation programmes and the SCFT Clinical Strategy. The post holder will be supported in their development where needed and appropriate training will be available.
Responsibilities
* Act as a recognised expert podiatric resource for specialised clinical advice to patients, peers and other medical staff including Consultants and General Practitioners.
* Ensure professional standards are maintained in accordance with CORU, The College of Podiatry (UK) Guidelines on Minimum Standards of Clinical Practice for Podiatry.
* Responsibility for own clinical and administrative practices in line with SCFT policies procedures and guidelines as well as national models of care and national podiatric best practice.
* Treat and manage the acute diabetic foot within the community for those with active diabetes foot disease.
* Undertake specialist podiatry treatments and interventions as appropriate to the grade, skills and competencies in the community setting.
* Provide standardised high-quality diabetes foot management to patients with active foot disease /in remission foot.
* Adhere to national and international guidelines on diabetes foot management with emphasis on that developed by the National Clinical Programme for Diabetes/Chronic disease programme.
* Develop specialised, tailored management plans following an in‑depth accurate assessment and diagnosis of the patient, using highly advanced and specialist skills in patient management.
* Ensure timely referral to other services in the Multidisciplinary diabetic foot team or other as required.
* Identify the need for change in own clinical practice, and that of colleagues, within the context of changing demographics, economic and legislative needs.
* Provide clinical leadership that will influence and assist in the development of quality improvements in diabetes foot management.
* Work in a safe manner with due care and attention to the safety of self and others.
* Implement national and internationally developed standards in care for the diabetic foot and avail of evidence based interventions to achieve these standards as agreed locally.
* Develop and review appropriate clinical care pathways for patients with diabetes and facilitate these with other specialists within the team and wider organisation and region.
* Ensure that every patient is to be treated as an individual and provided with a high quality service in terms of dignity courtesy, kindness, interest and efficiency.
* Lead and collaborate on the development and implementation of local and national standards of practice, clinical protocols and clinical pathways for diabetes foot management.
* Actively participate in relevant Special Interest Groups including local governance and implementation groups on a regular basis as agreed with the line manager.
* Support and stimulate and partake in research in your specialist area.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays. Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services. Why work for us?
Benefits
* Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
* Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussex
* Flexible working options: part-time, flexi‑time, annualised hours, and flexi‑retirement
* Excellent training, development and research opportunities
* Cost‑effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
* Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+ and Religion & Belief networks
* Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
* Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
* Our values: Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
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