Podiatry Diabetes Lead

Job overview

Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist

Band 7 1 WTE (37.5 hours per week)

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Podiatrist in Diabetic Foot Care to join our combined Podiatry North / Brighton & Hove locality teams on a permanent basis. The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership in diabetic foot care across the localities, though most of the clinical activity will be in the North locality.

This post offers the chance for someone to develop their clinical and leadership skills by providing a high level of foot care to the community while offering supervision and mentorship to colleagues.

Main duties of the job

The Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist provides an advanced level of clinical and professional leadership across the Podiatry North / Brighton & Hove localities and to provide specialist clinical advice to colleagues regarding complex patients who will primarily present in the North locality.

They will work with the Professional Lead to ensure staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered.

The Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist will work with the Operational Team Leads and the Clinical Services Manager to develop key partnerships and to ensure services continue to develop in line with Trust transformation programmes and the SCFT Clinical Strategy.

The post holder will be supported in their development where needed and appropriate training will be available.

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.

• 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

• Act as a recognised expert podiatric resource for specialised clinical advice to patients, peers and other medical staff including Consultants and General Practitioners.
• Ensure professional standards are maintained in accordance with CORU, The College of Podiatry (UK) Guidelines on Minimum Standards of Clinical Practice for Podiatry.
• Responsibility for own clinical and administrative practices in line with SCFT policies procedures and guidelines as well as national models of care and national podiatric best practice.
• Treat and manage the acute diabetic foot within the community for those with active diabetes foot disease.
• Undertake specialist podiatry treatments and interventions as appropriate to the grade, skills and competencies in the community setting.
• Provide standardised high-quality diabetes foot management to patients with active foot disease /in remission foot.
• Adhere to national and international guidelines on diabetes foot management with emphasis on that developed by the National Clinical Programme for Diabetes/Chronic disease programme.
• Develop specialised, tailored management plans following an in-depth accurate assessment and diagnosis of the patient, using highly advanced and specialist skills in patient management.
• Ensure timely referral to other services in the Multidisciplinary diabetic foot team or other as required.
• Identify the need for change in own clinical practice, and that of colleagues, within the context of changing demographics, economic and legislative needs.
• Provide clinical leadership that will influence and assist in the development of quality improvements in diabetes foot management.

• Work in a safe manner with due care and attention to the safety of self and others
• Implement national and internationally developed standards in care for the diabetic foot and avail of evidence based interventions to achieve these standards as agreed locally.
• Develop and review appropriate clinical care pathways for patients with diabetes and facilitate these with other specialists within the team and wider organisation and region.
• Ensure that every patient is to be treated as an individual and provided with a high quality service in terms of dignity courtesy, kindness, interest and efficiency.
• Lead and collaborate on the development and implementation of local and national standards of practice, clinical protocols and clinical pathways for diabetes foot management.
• Actively participate in relevant Special Interest Groups including local governance and implementation groups on a regular basis as agreed with the line manager.
• Support and stimulate and partake in research in your specialist area

Person specification

Experience

• Significant postgraduate experience
• Expert clinician and able to demonstrate credibility
• Relevant managerial experience
• Significant experience of supervision provision
• Significant experience of working in the clinical setting
• Significant experience providing clinical leadership to a team
• Experience of managing a multi-professional/collaborative working
• Experience of delivering quality improvement and productivity
• Evidence of active participation in audit and clinically relevant research

• Experience of administering or managing a budget

Qualifications and/or Professional Registration

• Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in podiatry
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a podiatrist
• Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses/ CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality
• Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the role
• Evidence of leadership education/ development or a willingness to undertake this

• Post Registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent and experience

Skills & Knowledge

• Demonstrate expertise within clinical area underpinned by theory and significant experience
• Use of advanced reasoning and assessment skills demonstrated in knowledge and experience shown in a wide range of approaches to treatments, management of conditions and situations
• Demonstrates excellent leadership and ability to empower others in practice
• Demonstrates ability to delegate to others
• IT skills, with the ability to use a number of databases, excel, word and internet
• Excellent written communication skills with an ability to negotiate and manage conflict
• Current knowledge of local and national policies informing health and social care
• Demonstrates leadership in practice
• Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit
• Demonstrates a commitment of life-long learning and development with documented evidence of CPD
• Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
• Demonstrates self awareness, able to identify personal limitation and shows openness to address them

Other requirements

• Ability to travel – has driving licence and car available for work purposes.

At the heart of how we operate is our Trust values:

• Compassionate Care
• Working Together,
• Achieving Ambitions
• Delivering Excellence

Our values are fundamental to the high-quality care we provide to the people who need us. We are proud to be a community that cares, delivering our services as a team whilst supporting our employees as individuals.

Our aim is to grow a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.

We strive to create an environment where every individual is valued and respected. Our recruitment process is designed to support candidates who require reasonable adjustments and to accommodate the needs of applicants.

This post may close earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.

Correspondence relating to this vacancy will be conducted electronically, please ensure you check your emails, including your junk folder. If you have not heard from us within two weeks please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.