Job summary
Are you passionate about improving foot health and enhancing quality of life? Join our podiatry team and make a difference to the lives of patients every day.
Our podiatry service treats and manages foot complications related to diabetes and other disorders that may affect the feet.
As a Podiatry Assistant, you will assist registered Podiatrists with patient care, treatment and assessments in clinic settings and patients own homes including nursing and residential homes. You will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating with other healthcare professionals to deliver high quality patient centred care.
Our offer to you:
- Rotation into the acute sector as an observe in departments such as vascular and orthopaedics.
- Encourage and support with your career progression.
Our values are the heart of everything we do, they are:
- Continuous improvement
- Accountability
- Respect
- Enthusiasm
- Support
If you share our values and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
You will have the responsibility for participating as a key member of the team and other agencies to promote and maintain the health and wellbeing of an identified client group.
You will provide a high standard of clinical care for individuals and groups within a defined area of the population under the supervision of a registered practitioner.
You will maintain, develop and evidence their clinical knowledge, skills and competencies at all opportunities and act within the standards, protocols and guidelines for the delivery of care.
You will ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver local and national health priorities and objectives.
- Accept clinical responsibility for a manageable caseload, where appropriate.
- Be accountable for own clinical practice.
- Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
- Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
- Provide clinical support and knowledge to support staff.
- Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
- Support clinical staff in managing long term conditions.
- Organise and facilitate groups and /or individuals to develop self-care skills.
- Identify the need for and initiate referrals to internal/external partners, within agreed parameters.
- Develop person specific goals with individuals, carers and colleagues
- Enable individuals to develop the necessary skills to improve own health and lifestyle.
- Contribute to health needs assessment of a defined area of the population.
- Undertake risk assessment on a defined patient population in line with relevant guidelines.
- Lead on health promotion activities as required.
- Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
- Provide leadership, mentorship and role modelling to support staff within the clinical team.
- Participate in individual clinical supervision.
- Participate in mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation policies and procedures.
- Provide information as requested.
- Participate in audit as required by the organisation.
- Undertake the relevant foundation degree.
- Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
- Develop and maintain own knowledge and skills through the use of competency frameworks and continuous professional development (CPD) and personal development process.
- The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
- The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver local and national health priorities and objectives.
- Accept clinical responsibility for a manageable caseload, where appropriate.
- Be accountable for own clinical practice.
- Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
- Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
- Provide clinical support and knowledge to support staff.
- Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
- Support clinical staff in managing long term conditions.
- Organise and facilitate groups and /or individuals to develop self-care skills.
- Identify the need for and initiate referrals to internal/external partners, within agreed parameters.
- Develop person specific goals with individuals, carers and colleagues
- Enable individuals to develop the necessary skills to improve own health and lifestyle.
- Contribute to health needs assessment of a defined area of the population.
- Undertake risk assessment on a defined patient population in line with relevant guidelines.
- Lead on health promotion activities as required.
- Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
- Provide leadership, mentorship and role modelling to support staff within the clinical team.
- Participate in individual clinical supervision.
- Participate in mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation policies and procedures.
- Provide information as requested.
- Participate in audit as required by the organisation.
- Undertake the relevant foundation degree.
- Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
- Develop and maintain own knowledge and skills through the use of competency frameworks and continuous professional development (CPD) and personal development process.
- The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
- The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Foundation Degree or equivalent or equivalent work-based experience
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
- Assessing, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care
- Understanding local and national influences on health care delivery, including Public Health
- Experience of previous work in health care
- Clinical Governance and Risk Management
- Actively Involved in professional development
- Knowledge of Health Promotion strategies
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to travel for work purposes
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Foundation Degree or equivalent or equivalent work-based experience
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
- Assessing, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care
- Understanding local and national influences on health care delivery, including Public Health
- Experience of previous work in health care
- Clinical Governance and Risk Management
- Actively Involved in professional development
- Knowledge of Health Promotion strategies
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to travel 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.
