Overview
Take a clinical specialist role across within: Assessment / Tissue Viability. Provide leadership within the Team and act as a senior clinician, leading by example. Provides specialist podiatry advice both within and externally to the Trust. Assesses and treats patients within the team caseload of patients with specialised care needs which includes adults and paediatrics, self-referrals from patients and referrals from other practitioners and disciplines. Participate in the training of other staff and students. Participate in service transformation activity with a view to continuous service improvement and value for money.
Main duties of the job
* Clinical Practice: To be responsible for the assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of podiatric care for patients within a team caseload with specialised care needs
* To provide appropriate podiatric health education to patients and carers
* To act as a senior clinician providing specialist advice to and accepting referrals from both podiatrists within the department and clinicians in other fields
* To ensure that all interventions are designed using, where possible, evidence based practice and to evaluate outcomes
* To work across acute, community and primary health care sectors as part of a multidisciplinary team with direct input to patient care, often highly complex individual cases, and acting as a source of advice to medical colleagues, other health care professionals, patients and carers
* To be responsible for the maintenance of appropriate documentation for patient records, reports, audits and Departmental standard.
If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.
You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.
We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients\' homes.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.
Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.
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