Clinical Manager - Podiatry

Wye Valley NHS Trust

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Job summary

Clinical Manager - Podiatry

Full time - Band 8a

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced podiatrist to join our small, hard working podiatry team in Herefordshire as clinical manager.

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to support and develop our team that provides community podiatry across many sites, specialist diabetes podiatry and inpatient podiatry at our acute hospital. We work closely with many specialist teams including podiatric surgery, diabetes, trauma and orthopaedics and orthotics. We have started a transformation journey and would value an experienced manager to join us and take this work forward.

This post is a clinical / managerial mixed post, fitting with the applicants clinical background and specialism. We would welcome a discussion about flexible working, and further opportunities for development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the operational and strategic management, professional and clinical leadership of the Podiatry service across the organisation ensuring that the key priorities and targets are met within the services through maximising clinical and practitioner involvement.

You will work closely with the Therapy Services clinical managers across the division to achieve the divisional objectives. The post holder will be a registered Podiatric professional and have responsibility for professional leadership within Podiatry Services.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Date posted

08 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

229-IC-6116917

Job locations

County Hospital

Stonebow road

Hereford

HR1 2ER

Job description

Job responsibilities

Professional lead and clinical manager for the Podiatry service for Wye Valley NHS Trust
To manage the Podiatry service budget within trust and divisional financial guidelines
To act as clinical lead for development and implementation of policies and strategic development of Podiatry services in line with trust and One Herefordshire objectives.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Professional lead and clinical manager for the Podiatry service for Wye Valley NHS Trust
To manage the Podiatry service budget within trust and divisional financial guidelines
To act as clinical lead for development and implementation of policies and strategic development of Podiatry services in line with trust and One Herefordshire objectives.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Qualified Podiatrist with relevant 1st level Degree or equivalent
HCPC Registration
Significant post graduate education including leadership and management to Masters level

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Strong and demonstrable leadership skills and experience
Knowledge of the skills required in the assessment and treatment of therapy patients/service users with longstanding and complex needs
Understanding of relevant legislation and clinical governance
Ability to maintain effective working relationships with other partners and professions

Experience

Essential

Experience of managing people and financial resources at a senior level
Experience of developing services in a multi-disciplinary team(s)
Experience of leading a service and service development projects

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Qualified Podiatrist with relevant 1st level Degree or equivalent
HCPC Registration
Significant post graduate education including leadership and management to Masters level

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Strong and demonstrable leadership skills and experience
Knowledge of the skills required in the assessment and treatment of therapy patients/service users with longstanding and complex needs
Understanding of relevant legislation and clinical governance
Ability to maintain effective working relationships with other partners and professions

Experience

Essential

Experience of managing people and financial resources at a senior level
Experience of developing services in a multi-disciplinary team(s)
Experience of leading a service and service development projects

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.