Job summary
Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist
Band 7 1 WTE (37.5 hours per week)
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Podiatrist in Diabetic Foot Care to join our combined Podiatry North / Brighton & Hove locality teams on a permanent basis. We are inviting formal expressions of interest for the role to start from 1st April 2024. The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership in diabetic foot care across the localities, though most of the clinical activity will be in the North locality. This post offers the chance for someone to develop their clinical and leadership skills by providing a high level of foot care to the community while offering supervision and mentorship to colleagues.
Main duties of the job
Key areas of responsibility:
The Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist provides an advanced level of clinical and professional leadership across the Podiatry North / Brighton & Hove localities and to provide specialist clinical advice to colleagues regarding complex patients who will primarily present in the North locality.
They will work with the Professional Lead to ensure staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered.
The Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist will work with the Operational Team Leads and the Clinical Services Manager to develop key partnerships and to ensure services continue to develop in line with Trust transformation programmes and the SCFT Clinical Strategy.
The post holder will be supported in their development where needed and appropriate training will be available.
For further information, please contact Lucy Lewin or Johnny Black.
If you are interested in this post, please complete the attached application form and email jonathan.black5@nhs.net by the end of the 14th July 2024.
Suitable candidates will be invited to attend a short interview:
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Clinical Specialist Podiatrist (Diabetes) will:Clinical PracticeAct as a recognised expert podiatric resource for specialised clinical advice to patients, peers and other medical staff including Consultants and General Practitioners.Ensure professional standards are maintained in accordance with CORU, TheCollege of Podiatry (UK) Guidelines on Minimum Standards of Clinical Practice for Podiatry.Responsibility for own clinical and administrative practices in line with SCFT policies procedures and guidelines as well as national models of care and national podiatric best practice.Treat and manage the acute diabetic foot within the community forthose with active diabetes foot disease.Undertake specialist podiatry treatments and interventions as appropriate to the grade, skills and competencies in the community setting.Provide standardised high-quality diabetes foot management to patients with active foot disease /in remission foot.
Adhere to national and international guidelines on diabetes foot management with emphasis on that developed by the National Clinical Programme for Diabetes/Chronic disease programme.Develop specialised, tailored management plans following an in-depth accurate assessment and diagnosis of the patient, using highly advanced and specialist skills in patient management.Ensure timely referral to other services in the Multidisciplinary diabetic foot team or other as required.Identify the need for change in own clinical practice, and that of colleagues, within the context of changing demographics, economic and legislative needs.Provide clinical leadership that will influence and assist in the development of quality improvements in diabetes foot management.Quality, Safety and Risk ManagementWork in a safe manner with due care and attention to the safety of self and othersImplement national and internationally developed standards in care for the diabetic foot and avail of evidence based interventions to achieve these standards as agreed locally.Develop and review appropriate clinical care pathways for patients with diabetes and facilitate these with other specialists within the team and wider organisationand region.Ensure that every patient is to be treated as an individual and provided with a high quality service in terms of dignity courtesy, kindness, interest and efficiency.Lead and collaborate on the development and implementation of local andnational standards of practice, clinical protocols and clinical pathways for diabetes foot management.Actively participate in relevant Special Interest Groups including local governance and implementation groups on a regular basis as agreed with the line manager.Support and stimulate and partake in research in your specialist area
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Clinical Specialist Podiatrist (Diabetes) will:Clinical PracticeAct as a recognised expert podiatric resource for specialised clinical advice to patients, peers and other medical staff including Consultants and General Practitioners.Ensure professional standards are maintained in accordance with CORU, TheCollege of Podiatry (UK) Guidelines on Minimum Standards of Clinical Practice for Podiatry.Responsibility for own clinical and administrative practices in line with SCFT policies procedures and guidelines as well as national models of care and national podiatric best practice.Treat and manage the acute diabetic foot within the community forthose with active diabetes foot disease.Undertake specialist podiatry treatments and interventions as appropriate to the grade, skills and competencies in the community setting.Provide standardised high-quality diabetes foot management to patients with active foot disease /in remission foot.
Adhere to national and international guidelines on diabetes foot management with emphasis on that developed by the National Clinical Programme for Diabetes/Chronic disease programme.Develop specialised, tailored management plans following an in-depth accurate assessment and diagnosis of the patient, using highly advanced and specialist skills in patient management.Ensure timely referral to other services in the Multidisciplinary diabetic foot team or other as required.Identify the need for change in own clinical practice, and that of colleagues, within the context of changing demographics, economic and legislative needs.Provide clinical leadership that will influence and assist in the development of quality improvements in diabetes foot management.Quality, Safety and Risk ManagementWork in a safe manner with due care and attention to the safety of self and othersImplement national and internationally developed standards in care for the diabetic foot and avail of evidence based interventions to achieve these standards as agreed locally.Develop and review appropriate clinical care pathways for patients with diabetes and facilitate these with other specialists within the team and wider organisationand region.Ensure that every patient is to be treated as an individual and provided with a high quality service in terms of dignity courtesy, kindness, interest and efficiency.Lead and collaborate on the development and implementation of local andnational standards of practice, clinical protocols and clinical pathways for diabetes foot management.Actively participate in relevant Special Interest Groups including local governance and implementation groups on a regular basis as agreed with the line manager.Support and stimulate and partake in research in your specialist area
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience 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 administering or managing a budget Experience of delivering quality improvement and productivity Evidence of active participation in audit and clinically relevant research.
Desirable
- Experience Significant postgraduate experience Expert clinician and able to demonstrate credibility of Significant experience of supervision provision Significant experience of working in the clinical setting
Qualifications and/or Professional qualification
Essential
- Qualifications and/or Professional Registration 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 Post Registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent and experience Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the role Evidence of leadership education/ development or a willingness to undertake this.
Desirable
- Qualifications and/or Professional Registration 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 Post Registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent and experience Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the roles.
Skills & 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. Demonstrates ability to delegate to others 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 competency in a range of clinical skills Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit Demonstrates ability to reflect and learn from situations Demonstrates a commitment of life-long learning and development with documented evidence of CPD Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development, skill sharing and developing staff competencies Demonstrates an ability to identify and manage difficult situations and act appropriately to obtain Method of Assessment support Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions Demonstrates self awareness, able to identify personal limitation and shows openness to address them Use of advanced clinical reasoning demonstrated in knowledge and experience shown in a wide range of approaches to treatments and management of conditions
Desirable
- 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 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 competency in a range of clinical skills. Use of advanced clinical reasoning demonstrated in knowledge and experience shown in a wide range of approaches to treatments and management of conditions.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience 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 administering or managing a budget Experience of delivering quality improvement and productivity Evidence of active participation in audit and clinically relevant research.
Desirable
- Experience Significant postgraduate experience Expert clinician and able to demonstrate credibility of Significant experience of supervision provision Significant experience of working in the clinical setting
Qualifications and/or Professional qualification
Essential
- Qualifications and/or Professional Registration 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 Post Registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent and experience Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the role Evidence of leadership education/ development or a willingness to undertake this.
Desirable
- Qualifications and/or Professional Registration 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 Post Registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent and experience Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the roles.
Skills & 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. Demonstrates ability to delegate to others 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 competency in a range of clinical skills Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit Demonstrates ability to reflect and learn from situations Demonstrates a commitment of life-long learning and development with documented evidence of CPD Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development, skill sharing and developing staff competencies Demonstrates an ability to identify and manage difficult situations and act appropriately to obtain Method of Assessment support Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions Demonstrates self awareness, able to identify personal limitation and shows openness to address them Use of advanced clinical reasoning demonstrated in knowledge and experience shown in a wide range of approaches to treatments and management of conditions
Desirable
- 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 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 competency in a range of clinical skills. Use of advanced clinical reasoning demonstrated in knowledge and experience shown in a wide range of approaches to treatments and management of conditions.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
