Podiatrist Band 6

Job summary

Band 6 Podiatrists: 2 posts available in Leicester.

Are you enthusiastic, flexible, and self-motivated? Do you have excellent communication, organisational, interpersonal, problem solving and time management skills?

Do you enjoy working in all areas of podiatry?

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1m people living in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.

Our successful candidates will deliver high quality, evidence based podiatric care to the local population. We are proud to offer our podiatrists the opportunity to work with routine, biomechanics, high risk ulcer care treatments as well as nail surgery. The post holder will also be required to work within other clinical locations, attend meetings as appropriate, provide domiciliary visits etc across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.

It is important that you can work on your own initiative as well as part of a team. You should also have a good working knowledge of governance issues and possess good IT skills as we are fully electronic with regards our records and booking etc.

We provide excellent support and development for all staff through regular clinical supervision and team meetings.

For enquiries, please contact:

Rachel Norton or Lesley Weaving Podiatry Leads 0116 2255118.

Main duties of the job

You will assess, diagnose, treat, manage, and maintain a defined caseload using your professional autonomy, applying sound reasoning and judgemental skills whilst ensuring practice is evidence based whenever possible. Our clinics and home visits are a mixture of routine, biomechanics, and high-risk patients. The clinic rota will also include telephone and video call appointments. Nail surgery is done on a rota but often there is a need for extra sessions to meet the demand. Nail surgery is also provided for the housebound in their homes. We have rotational placements working within the diabetic foot clinic at Leicester General Hospital and treating patients on the acute wards at one of the three main hospitals in Leicester. You will liaise with professional colleagues to ensure safe and effective outcomes of interventions particularly the community nursing service and the wider MDTs. You will have a base of work but will need to work at other clinics too which is great to meet other staff. We encourage all podiatrists to have roles of interest e.g., getting involved in projects, audits, research, being a student placement instructor, line managing etc. We 'treat to discharge' except for the high-risk patients. This requires excellent treatment planning and communication skills with patients and their families/carers to manage their expectations. We promote self-care and independence.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Hockley Farm Medical Practice

39 Hockley Farm Road

Leicester

LE3 1HN

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Hockley Farm Medical Practice

39 Hockley Farm Road

Leicester

LE3 1HN

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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