Job overview

Are you an experienced Advanced Podiatry Practitioner with an MSK specialism? 

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic podiatrist with an NHSE AP Digital Badge, or significant experience of working across the four pillars of AP and an ability to undertake the supported e-portfolio route.

This is your opportunity to join a team of physiotherapists, podiatrists and osteopaths working at the interface between core podiatry/physiotherapy and secondary care services, delivering high quality evidence-based care, and helping to drive service development.

Main duties of the job

You will contribute to the remote triage of referrals into the Single Point of Access  MSK Specialist Triage Service, as well as being responsible for the management of a complex foot and ankle clinical caseload. This will include clinical assessment, requesting of appropriate diagnostic imaging, treatment (advising/prescribing of medicines and exercise/ injecting/providing orthoses as appropriate) and appropriate onward referral to community and secondary care services. 

You will contribute to the wider functioning and development of the team through research, audit, training and education, working across all parts of the Gloucestershire MSK pathway and across professional boundaries. You will support core services, working on integration and clinical development pathways, and you will represent MSKAPS on appropriate MDTs with  secondary care teams.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.