Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Podiatrist MSK Biomechanics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 824-INNER-7232323
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lisson Grove Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 per annum, inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Podiatrist - MSK Biomechanics
Band 7
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
In this role you will be at the forefront of delivering new models of care through transformation that meets the needs of our community, and will be able to contribute to the creation of what that looks like as well as positively impacting and enhancing the experiences of our patients in the diverse community of Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster.
You will provide day-to-day specialist clinical care in a supported environment and within a dynamic team, to a diverse group of patients. You will work to embed biomechanics within the service across our caseloads and carry some operational management duties supporting the Clinical Team Lead.
Providing day-to-day professional leadership, you will ensure the needs of patients are placed at the centre of care delivery while providing assurance that standards of clinical care within a designated area is of the highest standard attainable.
Main duties of the job
You will need to demonstrate effective leadership skills alongside excellent interpersonal skills with a strong ability to teach and inspire colleagues through reflective practice, active demonstration of clinical practice and leadership.
If this is an environment you could contribute to, help shape and excel in, and you are ready to join our growing, supportive, caring and dedicated team then we eagerly anticipate receiving your application!
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Single occupancy accommodation in Central London – (we can help you find accommodation in London, support you with your deposit)
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Degree In Podiatric Medicine or Diploma (if qualified prior 1991)
- Evidence of continual professional and personal development
- Registration with the Health Professions Council
- Certificate in local anaesthesia
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post graduate training in specialist area of podiatry
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post graduate clinical experience
- Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency working
- Experience of clinical supervision / mentoring
- Experience of service development
- Experience of working in an NHS environment
- Experience of working with a wide range of patient and disease / pathology types including the at-risk and high-risk foot
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing a team
- Experience of rota and diary management
- Experience of staff recruitment
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of recent developments in the profession
- Full knowledge of podiatric theory and practice
- Knowledge of foot orthotic design and manufacture
- Knowledge of CoP code of conduct
- Awareness of Equal Opportunities – theory and practice
- Understanding of Clinical Governance -theory and practice
- Up-to-date knowledge of clinical issues and treatment development
- Knowledge of audit and risk assessment
- Ability to evaluate patients concerns and needs and propose effective solutions
- Ability to undertake intricate work in using sensitive diagnostic tools and a range of surgical instruments. e.g in the management and debridement of poor tissue viability wounds and nail surgery
- Organisational and planning skills to manage your own work time and domiciliary caseload
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of current government health policy
- Data analysis skills i.e. reviewing reports
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to cope with a busy demanding and varied workload able to cope with the demands of moving between sessional clinics, on foot, by transport.
- Performing clinical treatments in physically restricted work positions requiring repetitive fine movements
- Ability to multi-task and concentration in order to apply continued diagnostic and analytical skills throughout the working day
- Ability to cope with patients anxieties and employ tactical techniques in order to help support patients and allay anxieties
- Adaptable to a variety of working environments and the ability to cope with sometimes distressing settings and work tasks including wound care , neglected feet and exposure to malodour, body fluids including blood and wound exudate
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Steven Lassetter
- Job title
- Podiatry Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500 987 980
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