Podiatrist - Band 5
Job Description
Job summary
We are recruiting a band 5 podiatrist in Penrith. Earlier start date would be consider at lower banding while awaiting graduation and HCPC registration.
The Podiatry Department provides a comprehensive service to patients throughout North Cumbria. As a band 5 podiatrist you will be given the opportunity to enhance your clinical skills and knowledge to improve patient care, through a robust preceptorship/induction programme. You will work alongside a friendly, welcoming and supportive team, dedicated to learning and improving, where everyone's voice counts.
This role would suit an enthusiastic and highly motivated new graduate or individual looking to return to practice to join our inspirational podiatry team on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will have excellent organisational and planning abilities to meet deadlines and prioritise tasks, be able to demonstrate high level interpersonal skills alongside a good sense of humour and high levels of resilience, being a team player with good IT skills. If this sounds like your ideal role, then we look forward to receiving your application.
We maintain high risk, biomechanics and nail surgery caseloads. While providing episodes of care for specific conditions. Opportunities to develop skills and knowledge in specialist areas are available in the multi-disciplinary diabetic foot team and North Cumbria MSK service.
Main duties of the job
- To work with individuals, families, carers, communities, Primary Healthcare Teams and other agencies to undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients / service users in order to inform a personalised plan of care / intervention.
- To triage, screen, assess, diagnosis and treat a number of podiatric conditions including the high risk foot, nail surgery and biomechanics.
- To formulate and deliver individual treatment plans for a number of foot conditions using holistic assessment, reasoning and treatments based on evidence based practice, and within specified scope of practice and skill level.
- To evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes within scope of practice and skill level, using an accepted and appropriate range of techniques as required.
- To follow treatments plans for foot ulceration, utilising digital technologies including electronic patient records and wound care applications.
- To understand escalation points for patients presenting with complex conditions outside the scope of practice, including deteriorating or stagnating foot ulcers to a senior podiatrist.
- To prioritise foot and/or medical problems, intervening appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
- To identify when patients need interventions from other services and initiate timely and onward referrals.
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':
Being a clinically led organisation
Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
A positive patient experience every time
A great place to work
Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment.Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
The Trust will provide a twelve month preceptorship period for New to registration Nurses Midwives and Allied Health Professionals.
Registered Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles or changing clinical environments, may access an agreed preceptorship period.
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Important Information
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- Junk Mail is checked regularly
Disclosure and Barring Service:
On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.
The changes mean that:
- youth cautions, reprimands and final warnings will no longer be subject to automatic disclosure
- the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.
If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.
Nacro Tel: 0300 123 1999, or email: helpline@nacro.org.uk
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The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children therefore if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:
Please note the cost of the DBS check has increased from 2nd December 2024
Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £5.90 = £27.40. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.
Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £5.90 = £55.40. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.
As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.
A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.
27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
Flexible working Scheme
Excellent opportunities for development
Competitive NHS Pension scheme
Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies
EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
These schemes are subject to availability
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or working toward qualification in Podiatric Medicine
- Local Anaesthesia Certificate
- HCPC registration or working toward
Knowledge
Essential
- Broad knowledge of routine and high-risk patient care (assessment, diagnosis and treatment/management) e.g. diabetes, peripheral vascular disease and wound care. Gained through graduate study and work experience/clinical placement
- Experience in the assessment, diagnosis and ...
