Specialist Podiatrist - Redbridge & Waltham Forest inRedbridge & Waltham Forest Boroughs inRedbridge & Waltham Forest Boroughs PUBLISHED
SAT 26 OCT 2024
The department emphasises a supportive team environment and is dedicated to continuous professional development, offering opportunities to specialize in areas such as biomechanics and nail surgery. The role includes the use of advanced technologies like MolecuLight i:X and Toe Pressure kits, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams for enhanced patient care. Candidates will also be expected to evaluate patient progress and modify care plans as necessary, ensuring effective management of high-risk foot conditions.
Specialist Podiatrist
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and innovative team player to join our friendly Podiatry team (@Nelft_Podiatry on Twitter) within NELFT.
Our Podiatry Department provides services to a high risk, multi-cultural populationacross the London boroughs of Waltham Forest & Redbridge.
Our friendly Podiatry Service pride themselves on their close working together as a very friendly and approachable close-knit team with effective communication.
Your clinical work would be across an array of community & domiciliary settings across these boroughs, and a car is therefore essential to this role. You would be responsible for treatment planning for foot complications associated with diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and vascular / ischaemic long-term conditions and would be part of the team treating foot ulceration in the community.
As a department we pride ourselves on being innovative and forward thinking and have MolecuLight i:X technology & Toe Pressure kits available across our wound care clinics.
We are committed to CPD and training initiatives to achieve personal as well as service objectives and there are opportunities to rotate into our Biomechanics and Nail Surgery Teams, and specialise.
Please refer to the attached Job Description & Personal Specification for full details.
About us
This vacancy would suit a qualified Podiatrist who has worked within the NHS environment for at least a year and enjoys rising to these challenges.
We are a high risk service, so the appropriate podiatry skills are required for the high-risk foot.
A Band 6 Specialist Podiatrist is responsible for providing programmes of clinical podiatric care to high-risk patients with a variety of podiatric needs in the community, hospital and domiciliary setting and will have autonomous responsibility for the specialist assessment of patients including those with multiple pathologies using clinical reasoning skills and diagnostic techniques. Evaluating the patients progress and altering care plans if required.
Care is provided into the specialist areas of the service as required eg, diabetes, biomechanics, nail surgery, wound care.
As a department we pride ourselves on being innovative and forward thinking and have MolecuLight:iX technology as well as Toe Pressure Kits in all of our high risk clinics to undertake the recently highlighted '2 minute Toe Pressure challenge'.
We have an MDFT at Whipps Cross Hospital and also work closely with the Podiatry team (part of an MDFT) based at The Royal London & St Bartholomew Hospitals, which has provided fantastic shadowing & learning opportunities.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.
Please wait...this will take a moment...
Stand by, we'll show you...