Clinical Specialist Podiatrist

Job responsibilities

Our service provides expert Podiatric care to patients who are at moderate or high risk of developing complications and those with active ulceration. These patients are often complex and your excellent clinical skills will be put to good use to supporting their care, enabling them to remain in their homes without the need for acute or emergency admission and helping them to remain mobile and active.

Key Responsibilities:

- To retain own clinical competency to carry out assessment, treatment, rehab interventions and to contribute to timely discharge where appropriate, particularly for highly complex patients.

- To use advanced knowledge, skills and expertise to facilitate and drive future service development.

- To work with Professional Leads to ensure delivery of evidenced based clinical practice.

- To facilitate the delivery of a robust clinical supervision structure is in place in line with Trust policy.

- To ensure all staff work to appropriate competency frameworks and manage performance of individuals through the appraisal and supervision process.

- To work collaboratively with other leads to facilitate effective operational management of allocated services.

- To ensure the service functions within financial constraints through collaborative working with the budget holders, and to contribute to the annual business planning process.

- To ensure effective delegation as per Trust guidelines and to support the implementation of new clinical initiatives.

- To manage own caseload of complex cases within defined clinical area.

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in podiatry
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a podiatrist
• Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses/ CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality
• Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the role
• Evidence of leadership education/ development or a willingness to undertake this.

Desirable

• Post Registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent and experience

Experience

Essential

• Significant postgraduate experience
• Expert clinician and able to demonstrate credibility
• Relevant managerial experience
• Significant experience of supervision provision
• Significant experience of working in the clinical setting
• Significant experience providing clinical leadership to a team
• Experience of managing a multi-professional team/ collaborative working
• Experience of delivering quality improvement and productivity
• Evidence of active participation in audit and clinically relevant research

Desirable

• Experience of administering or managing a budget

Skillls & Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrate expertise within clinical area underpinned by theory and significant experience
• Use of advanced reasoning and assessment skills demonstrated in knowledge and experience shown in a wide range of approaches to treatments, management of conditions and situations
• Demonstrates excellent leadership and ability to empower others in practice/ delegate to others
• Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit
• IT skills, with the ability to use a number of databases, excel, word and internet
• Excellent written communication skills with an ability to negotiate and manage conflict
• Current knowledge of local and national policies informing health and social care
• Demonstrates an ability to draw information from a range of sources in order to make a contribution to service development
• Demonstrates leadership in practice/ Demonstrates an ability to apply research to practice
• Demonstrates ability to reflect and learn from situations
• Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills
• Demonstrates a commitment of life-long learning and development with documented evidence of CPD / skill sharing and developing staff competencies
• Demonstrates an ability to identify and manage difficult situations and act appropriately to obtain support
• Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
• Use of advanced clinical reasoning demonstrated in knowledge and experience shown in a wide range of approaches to treatments and management of conditions

Other Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel - has driving licence and car available for work purposes.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).