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Job summary

Main area
Community Services
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 15 hours per week (Includes Mondays)
Job ref
395-WF249-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Across Redbridge & Waltham Forest Boroughs
Town
Chigwell
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata plus HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/03/2025 23:59

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Specialist Podiatrist - Redbridge & Waltham Forest

Band 6

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in

Job overview

Specialist Podiatrist

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and innovative team player to join our friendly Podiatry team Ìý(@Nelft_Podiatry on X) within NELFT.Ìý

Our Podiatry Department provides services to a high risk, multi-cultural ÌýpopulationÌýacross the London boroughs of Waltham Forest & Redbridge.

Our friendly Podiatry Service pride themselves on their close working together as a very friendly and approachable close-knit team with effective communication.

Main duties of the job

Your clinical work would be across an array of community & domiciliary settings across these boroughs, and a car is therefore essential to this role.

You would be responsible for treatment planning for foot complications associated with diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and vascular / ischaemic long-term conditions and would be part of the team treating foot ulceration in the community.

As a department we pride ourselves on being innovative and forward thinking and have MolecuLight i:X technology & Toe Pressure kits available across our wound care clinics.Ìý

We are committed to CPD and training initiatives to achieve personal as well as service objectives and there are opportunities to rotate into our Biomechanics and Nail Surgery Teams, and specialise.

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Personal Specification for full details.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).


Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement – London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This vacancy would suit a qualified Podiatrist who has worked within the NHS environment for at least a year and enjoys rising to theseÌý challenges.

We are a high risk service, so the appropriate podiatry skills are required for the high-risk foot.

A Band 6 Specialist Podiatrist is responsible for providing programmes of clinical podiatric care to high-risk patients with a variety of podiatric needs in the community, hospital and domiciliary setting and will have autonomous responsibility for the specialist assessment of patients including those with multiple pathologies using clinical reasoning skills and diagnostic techniques. Evaluating the patient’s progress and altering care plans if required.

Care is provided into the specialist areas of the service as required eg, diabetes, biomechanics, nail surgery, wound care.Ìý

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As a department we pride ourselves on being innovative and forward thinking and have MolecuLight:iX technology as well as Toe Pressure Kits in all of our high risk clinics to undertake the recently highlighted '2 minute Toe Pressure challenge'.

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We have an MDFT at Whipps Cross Hospital and also work closely with the Podiatry team (part of an MDFT) based at The Royal London & St Bartholomew Hospitals, which has providedÌý fantastic shadowing & learning opportunities.

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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BSc Diploma/Degree in Podiatric Medicine
  • Evidence of continual Professional Development
  • Evidence of post graduate training or equivalent experience
  • Registration with HCPC
  • Prescription only medicines certificate (included in BSc degree from 2001)
  • Certificate in Local Anaesthesia (included in BSc degree)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum of 1 year working in the community as a podiatrist
  • Experience of communicating across internal and external boundaries
  • Experience of governance , quality and audit
  • Experience of multi-agency working

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
  • Enthusiasm, integrity, confident, positive attitude
  • Commitment to own development
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent organisational and clinical skills
  • Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
  • Ability to balance competing priorities to meet personal and directorate targets within a fluctuating and demanding workload

Other

Essential criteria
  • Applicant will need to be car driver with valid UK Licence (this criteria will be reasonable adjusted to meet the requirements of a disabled applicant) and access to a car for work purposes. As they will need to travel throughout the area and provide podiatry for a domiciliary high risk caseload
  • To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

Demostration of Trust Values

Essential criteria
  • We are kind
  • We are respectful
  • We work together with our communities

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
Karen Wise
Job title
Podiatry Care Pathway Manager (west)
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 300 1722
Additional information

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Karen Wise
Podiatry Care Pathway Manager (West)

[email protected]

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