Job summary
- Main area
- Podiatry
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 150-OM1423-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brighton
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist
Band 7
Job overview
Diabetes Care for You is a multidisciplinary community diabetes service covering Brighton, Hove, High Weald and the Havens in East Sussex. The service comprises of consultants, nurses, dietitians, podiatrists, psychologists and support staff, that all contribute to the development of this innovative service.
The podiatrists also support with the Multi-Disciplinary Foot Team down at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking to recruit a Senior Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist to work within our Podiatry team.
The Senior Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist will work in partnership with patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes with moderate, high risk and active foot problems in a community setting, aiming to improve outcomes for patients. This includes the development of clinic-based care, home visits, along with healthcare professional and patient education programmes for diabetes management.
The post holder will also establish and maintain effective working relationships with health professionals in both primary and secondary care. They will work alongside the Lead Podiatrist to develop their clinical skills, and those of the team of Band 5 and Band 6 Podiatrists, to ensure the provision of high quality specialist podiatry care to patients. This role offers an excellent opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team integrating physical and psychological support.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To ensure the provision of a robust, integrated arrangement of care for diabetic feet within the community diabetes service and across the interface between Tier 3 and Tier 4 patients, providing a consistent high quality and a systematic approach to patient care.
The post holder will carry a high risk diabetic clinical caseload, using their highly developed specialist skills to ensure that patients receive the best evidence based care package.
The clinician will be required to participate in regular Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings within the service in order to input into this forum of patient care.
This role will require the triage of incoming referrals ensuring that they are allocated to the right level of speciality within the service, or referring on to other specialities, services or agencies as appropriate.
To clinically supervise Band 5 and 6 members of the podiatry team, acting as a clinical mentor, this role extends to students placed within the service and clinicians on rotation from the podiatry service. The post holder will be accountable, with the Lead Podiatrist, for the delivery of safe effective Podiatric care within the pathway.
To participate in team meetings and to regularly update the staff on developments within the field of diabetes.
To attend regional and local expert reference groups.
To attend and input into Sussex Community NHS Trust podiatry service Continuing Professional Development events and facilitate Band 5 & 6 team members attending.
To participate in patient satisfaction and audit studies as deemed necessary by the service manager and Lead Podiatrist.
To lead the education sessions with other providers in matters relating to diabetic podiatric care.
Prescribe and review medication (if appropriate prescribing qualification has been obtained and governance in place) for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national practice protocols, and within scope of
practice.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Podiatry or equivalent
- MSc (working towards) or equivalent experience
- Evidence of Post graduate Continual Professional Development
- Evidence of working at nationally accepted competency level for Band 7 Diabetes Specialist
Desirable criteria
- Holder of Independent prescriber certification
Experience
Essential criteria
- At least 5 years post graduate experience preferably covering both acute and community clinical work. At least 3 years of this must involve specialist care for the patients with diabetes
- Undertaking new patient assessment, diagnosis and treatment
- Developing specialised programmes of care
- Working in multi-disciplinary setting
- Undertaking clinical audit
- Comprehensive evidence of relevant lifelong learning and post graduate training
- Undertaking research in a health care setting
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Complex diabetic wound assessment and management
- Vascular assessment and associated podiatric management
- Evidence of presenting academic work/reports to an audience
- Appropriately request and assess imaging when clinically required
- Experience in the provision of health education
- Ability to use the Microsoft Office Suite of programs
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- This position will require the post holder to be independently mobile and own a vehicle for personal transport as it will require regular travel across East Sussex and the Brighton and Hove area
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Eleanor Rezazadeh
- Job title
- Deputy Operational Head of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07787 277530
- Additional information
Anna Edleston- ACP Podiatrist- [email protected]
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