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Job overview
Band 7 Advanced Specialist Podiatrist
Community Provision Care Pathway Lead Foot Protection
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the NELFT Podiatry - East team, to work as Care Pathway Lead for Community Provision and to support the Podiatry Manager in delivering the service.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and innovative care pathway lead to join our friendly Podiatry team within NELFT.
Our Podiatry Department provides services to a high risk, multi-cultural population across the London boroughs of Barking & Dagenham and Havering.
Your clinical work would be across an array of community & domiciliary settings across these boroughs, and a car driver is therefore essential to this role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a member of the local Community Podiatry Service who has podiatry skills and will be responsible for providing evidence based comprehensive assessment, review and treatment and support the team by delivering this service to the local high-risk population.
The post holder will be working within agreed local care pathways, codes of practice and professional standards, and specifically embedding Clinical quality guidelines.
Experienced podiatrists will provide specialist and complex podiatry care for a range of acute and chronic foot pathologies within community settings. The post holder will complement the service by using their first-class assessment, diagnostic and communication skills to develop programmes of care and their clinical expertise to implement treatment plans.
Please read the attached Job Description & Personal Specification for further details.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers, we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
1. We are kind.
2. We are respectful.
3. We work together with our communities.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement – Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at Northeast London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application. We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.
Certificates of Sponsorship
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Use of AI
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Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
4. BSc Diploma/Degree in Podiatric Medicine
5. Certificate in Administration of LA
6. Prescription only Medicine Certificate
7. HCPC Registration
8. Evidence of Continual Professional Development
9. Evidence of post graduate training masters level or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
10. Supplementary prescribing - working towards independent prescribing
Experience
Essential criteria
11. Minimum 3 years experience in area of specialism
12. Experience in communication across internal and external boundaries
13. Experience of governance, quality and audit
14. Experience of multi-agency working
Desirable criteria
15. Leadership skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
16. An awareness of NHS Priorities
17. Knowledge of current NHS strategy, and clinical governance priorities
18. Knowledge of local Health Priorities including cultural diversity
19. Knowledge of all Guidelines relating to diabetes
Skills
Essential criteria
20. Excellent organisational and clinical skills
21. Ability to work independently and as part of the team
22. Flexible to the changing needs of the service
23. Leadership skills
24. Team building skills
25. Enthusiasm, integrity, confident and positive attitude
26. Commitment to own development
27. Ability to balance competing priorities to meet personal and directorate targets within a fluctuating and demand workload
Other
Essential criteria
28. To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
Desirable criteria
29. Applicant will need to be a car driver with a valid UK Licence and access to a care for work purpose
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
30. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
31. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
32. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
33. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.