Job summary
- Main area
- Podiatry
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 381-CT-6372898
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- Sandwell/West Birmingham
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Foot Care Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 3
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
Footcare assistants are an essential part of the foot health team, working both independently and alongside the podiatrists. Independently, assistants manage an identified risk assessed caseload of patients, offering basic foot care and foot care advice. This will be in clinical settings across Sandwell, in patients homes and residential/care homes. Assistants will work alongside Podiatrists in dual clinics, specialist clinics as well as in our on site ortotics lab.
We would welcome applicants from those without a level 2 healthcare qualification, however, these candidates will be required to undertake this qualification as part of their employment.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role are to support the Podiatrist as well as managing a risk assessed caseload of patients. The role will require you to monitor and assess these patients and offer routine footcare treatment and advice for them in a variety of settings including clinical health centers, patients homes and care homes across the Sandwell borough. You will be asked to participate in quality, audit and risk management activities, ensure efficient stock control and keep up tp date accurate record keeping using SystmOne. There will be scope to support the podiatry team in specialist clinical environments such as in nail surgery, vascular/PAD clinic and in our lab where we manufacturer semi-bespoke orthotics.
We are continually looking to develop and support our clinicians with new skills and training via PDR, individual training budgets and core training needs opportunities and competencies to enhance our available interventions and services and to meet the changing needs of the diabetic foot.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve life
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details on what this role entails.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- No formal qualification are required, but a high level of numeracy and literacy are needed.
- Will be required to complete the recognised Royal College of Podiatry Assistant Practitioner training.
Desirable criteria
- Maths and English level 1 or 2 qualification or equivalent
- FCA qualification or equivalent
- Recognised first aid qualification.
- NCQ3 Care
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills
- Able to work as part of a team.
- Willing to learn
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ashley Sargeant
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Podiatrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07811715048
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