Job Description

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NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area

Surrey Downs Health & Care

Grade

NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Part time - 7.5 hours per week

Job ref

343-SDH&C-7331814

Site

Leatherhead Hospital

Town

Leatherhead

Salary

48,270 - 54,931 Pro Rata Per Annum inc Fringe HCAS

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

27/07/2025 23:59
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Job overview

Surrey Downs Health & Care

The Podiatry Service at Surrey Downs Health and Care are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Band 7 Podiatrist with specialist skills in the field of lower limb wound care and complex foot wounds. Working in conjunction with our existing lower limb specialist Podiatrist Lead and Podiatry leads.



The successful candidate will be required to have experience of delivering high quality care to patients and be able to develop patient pathways between acute and community care.


The post holder will lead and be a source of clinical expertise for lower limb wounds within community, working with Podiatry team colleagues across Community, Tier 3 Diabetes service and acute. You will provide highly specialist diagnostic assessment, treatment and advice; including wound management of high risk groups particularly but not exclusively diabetes, to maintain patient's mobility, independence and prevent disability.



Teaching, mentoring and supervising students, podiatrists, and building working relationships with members of the MDT and other AHP's in primary and secondary care will be an essential aspect of this role.



If you have excellent organisational skills as well as being an effective communicator and have experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment we would like to hear from you. Short listing will be based upon meeting the essential job criteria.






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Main duties of the job

To take the lead role in all foot and lower limb care. Ensuring an effective, co-ordinated podiatry service is provided. To continue to strengthen patient pathways between acute, primary and community care. To lead and implement a regular review of outcome measures across the service to ensure the service is effective. Provide an exemplary standard of care which included highly specialist diagnostic assessment, treatment and advice, including advanced wound management of high risk groups including vascular complications, to maintain patient's mobility, independence and prevent disability. To lead on clinical local and national audits, service pilots/projects and other research activities to support the development of evidence based practice. To act as a source of expertise and undertake training, support colleagues maintain and develop their clinical skills in within the MDT including district nursing.

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Working for our organisation

Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people's own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.



Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:


The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area CSH Surrey Epsom and St Helier's University Hospitals NHS Trust Surrey Council County

Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.



It's on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed - we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.



In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.


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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To work as an integral member of the multi- disciplinary team to deliver high quality and responsive programmes of podiatric care to patients. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team including General practitioners and other health care professionals. To be responsible for a highly complex and specialised caseload involving the implementation and co-ordination of highly specialise treatment regimes involving the holistic management of the 'at risk foot'. To be highly proficient in: comprehensive neurological and vascular assessment, total contact casting, deep wound debridement, advanced pathology, wound management techniques e.g. VAC therapy. To undertake diagnostic procedures using appropriate equipment e.g. wound swabs, Doppler ultrasound. Also to request diagnostic procedures via referral process. To ensure best practice when exposed to unpleasant working conditions. Maintaining infection control standards when faced with malodorous wounds, ulcerations and challenging unhygienic environments. To provide a service based in the community. Professional To work as an autonomous clinician working within professional, departmental and Surrey Downs Health and Care guidelines. Therefore being legally and professionally accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of your patients. To take a lead role in departmental clinical governance initiatives for example designing audit projects, collection of audit data, research, and development of clinical standards within specialist area of practice. To keep up to date with clinical and professional developments and use evidence based practice. To complete and maintain clinical competencies identified for the post. To maintain and update individual Professional Portfolio, and achieve statutory hours of CPD per year. To actively participate in personal development reviews (PDR's) and lifelong learning. To lead, promote and participate in clinical support (clinical supervision) whilst facilitating team members to utilise reflective skills as a method of ensuring quality of care for all service users. To support and represent the Podiatry department in any projects, programmes and training events as required. To lead on any relevant Podiatric contribution to NSF's and NICE guidelines. This will involve proposing and developing new policies and service changes which may impact on own department and others, and represent the department at trust level when required. To be aware of one's own scope of practice and refer to other peers/ professionals as necessary.

Management

To prevent professional isolation for colleagues working in the community by creating and maintaining systems for encouraging and supporting communications between podiatrists. To collaborate closely with team leaders and managers to ensure consistent delivery of clinical standards across Surrey Downs health and care. To be responsible for the supervision of colleagues and students, and provide specialist training in area of expertise. Ensure that team learn from mistakes, near misses and complaints, promoting a learning culture. To facilitate in-service training programmes e.g. including liaising with internal/external trainers and other professional leads. To participate in recruitment, reviewing job descriptions, short listing and sitting on interview panels and inducting new members of staff including bank staff and locums. To contribute to the department's strategy and annual business plan and produce objectives in line with it for the team. ###

Person specification

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Qualifications

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Essential criteria

HCPC Registered Podiatrist Local Anaesthetic Certificate (DPodM or BSc) Car Driver (Full Licence) #####

Desirable criteria

Specialist clinical experience. Involvement in training and teaching IR(ME)R Relevant post graduate qualifications Pharmacology certificate Independent prescriber ####

Skills

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Essential criteria

Good hand eye co-ordination Good clinical expertise in lower limb wound care including Doppler assessment #####

Desirable criteria

Evidence of clinical leadership Experience of line management ####

Experience

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Essential criteria

NHS experience. . Experience in the provision of high risk treatments and diabetic assessments in an acute/community environment Broad spectrum of clinical experience #####

Desirable criteria

Experience in clinical audit Experience in research ###

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.


This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.