First Contact Podiatrist

Job summary

Solent Podiatry Service have exciting new opportunities for highly skilled, experienced, and motivated Podiatrists to join our team as a first contact practitioner (FCPs). The role involves working as the first point of contact for foot and ankle conditions presenting to our inner Southampton city primary care network. Additionally, you will be supported to work as part of the Solent Podiatry Community team ensuring effective integrated working and continued peer support.

Our FCP model is part of our vision for foot health services, creating greater ease of access to the right person at the right time, and where possible removing inequitable barriers to specialist, personalised foot health advice and care.

Our trust shared values (HEART -- honesty, everyone counts, accountable, respectable and teamwork) support the development of a strong working culture and guides and inspires all our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care for our patients. Our last CQC rating of 'outstanding' for care and 'good' for the other domains depict these.

The Podiatry team provides services across South East Hampshire, Fareham and Gosport, West Hampshire, Portsmouth City and Southampton City. Our main sites are within the Portsmouth and Southampton City localities; at St Mary's Community Campus and Adelaide Health Centre.

Main duties of the job

*A first contact practitioner who is highly specialised and has considerable knowledge, clinical skills, and experience at a senior level, in the management of patients with lower limb pathology e.g., musculoskeletal, dermatological, neurological and vascular. Working as part of the NHS 7 day working service and in collaboration with the PCN enhanced services provision.

*To provide effective and efficient assessment, diagnosis and care planning for undifferentiated, undiagnosed foot and lower limb problems. The podiatrist will use precision clinical skills and provide highly developed diagnostic services. The podiatrist can work autonomously as part of a motivated multi-disciplinary PCN team providing a high standard of clinical care in a variety of settings.

*To deliver programmes of supported patient self-management, in ways that facilitate behavioural change, optimise individuals' physical activity, mobility, fulfilment of personal goals and independence, and that minimise the need for pharmacological interventions, using a person-centred approach.

*To act as an experienced and skilled podiatry resource for both the podiatry service and PCN multi-disciplinary team, promoting best practice and ensuring appropriate management within the various Podiatry and PCN Pathways.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.