Job summary
As our Podiatry Assistant, you will be supported by your senior clinicians and report to the Podiatry Clinical Lead. You will continue to learn and develop your clinical skills and support the podiatrists, podiatry students and other health care clinicians on work placement.
You will be assisting the podiatry team in their clinical and administrative duties, contributing to the safe and smooth running of the service.
Main duties of the job
- To work as part of a clinical team
- A varied and changeable schedule of work
- Assess and manage nail pathologies
- To educate patients on safe self-foot care and footwear
- To assist the Podiatrist with minor nail surgery procedure
- To audit stock levels, request purchase orders & process orders
- To issue prescription orthotics to patients with suitable aftercare advice
- To ensure effective communication of information with patients
- To maintain professional accurate and accountable patient records.
- To understand and apply policies and procedures for the service
- Attend domiciliary visits.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Podiatry Assistant, you'll be part of our valued team at our Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital.
You will feel valued as a Podiatry Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £22,369.35pro-ratawith group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
The Ideal Candidate
The essential qualities we are looking for in our Podiatry Assistant applicants are:
- Minimum of 1 years experience as a Podiatry Assistant or Foot Health Practitioner
- Must be able to drive and have access to a car to travel to various clinical sites
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Willingness to undertake professional development
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise caseload
- Ability to work independently, without direct supervision if required
- Ability to carry out assessments, suitable treatment and discharge where appropriate
- To be able to work on your own initiative and problem solve
- To resolve patients concerns/ issues at source
- To be flexible and adaptable.
- IT Literate
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Podiatry Assistant, you'll be part of our valued team at our Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital.
You will feel valued as a Podiatry Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £22,369.35pro-ratawith group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
The Ideal Candidate
The essential qualities we are looking for in our Podiatry Assistant applicants are:
- Minimum of 1 years experience as a Podiatry Assistant or Foot Health Practitioner
- Must be able to drive and have access to a car to travel to various clinical sites
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Willingness to undertake professional development
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise caseload
- Ability to work independently, without direct supervision if required
- Ability to carry out assessments, suitable treatment and discharge where appropriate
- To be able to work on your own initiative and problem solve
- To resolve patients concerns/ issues at source
- To be flexible and adaptable.
- IT Literate
Person Specification
General Requirements
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Person Specification
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Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
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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.
