Job summaryAre you an experienced and passionate Podiatrist, looking to develop your clinical and leadership skills? The Diabetes and Podiatry team would like you to join the team to help deliver and improve outcomes for people with diabetes foot complications.
You will support the hospital diabetes team (based in UHD Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospitals sites) to deliver high quality care. You will be forward thinking, with excellent communication, organisational, interpersonal skills and have an enthusiasm for improving patient care. The ability to liaise effectively with patients, members of the diabetes foot MDT, podiatry team leads and the wider healthcare team to ensure timely delivery of care will be essential. Your clinical work will involve looking after people with complex diabetes related foot complications.
We offer a supportive team working environment, pastoral and peer support with excellent learning and development opportunities. Your career is important to us, and we will support you in your ongoing clinical and leadership development.
This sought after role is a part-time position, for 33.75 hours per week. We will try to be flexible to accommodate a positive work life balance. Being a car driver with use of a vehicle is essential for this role, as there will be some travel between sites.
Main duties of the jobAs an integral part of the hospital-based diabetes foot MDT, and wider podiatry team, you will be:
- Delivering high quality specialist foot care within the hospital diabetes podiatry team, working closely with the wider DHC and UHD clinical teams.
- Undertaking assessment and management of people with diabetes foot complications, creating clinical management plans, and providing specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of patients/service users.
- Providing education and health promotion.
- Providing a high-quality person-centred approach to care delivery which always considers people's safety, privacy, and dignity.
- Providing supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students, apprentices and trained practitioners.
- To help monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research and education. To promote and demonstrate best practice by integrating evidence into practice.
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of.
About usAt Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.
We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.
Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.
Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.
Job responsibilitiesFor the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.
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Person SpecificationKnowledge, skills and trainingEssential- Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level supplemented by post registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
- Membership of the relevant Professional Body
- Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio
Desirable- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role
Job specific experienceEssential- Experience of specialist working in Diabetes
- Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of Diabetes
- Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
- Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
Desirable- Recent previous experience within a comparable role
- Experience of managing change
Managerial/Supervisory ExperienceEssential- Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff
- Experience of devising and delivering training
Personal Qualities/AttributesEssential- Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills
- Able to analyse and assess situations and to interpret potentially conflicting situations and determine appropriate action, where there is a range of options and judgement is required
- Demonstrable ability to analyse situations and provide a resolution
- Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours.
- Able to overcome barriers to understanding where there are physical or mental disabilities.
- Ability to use own initiative within sphere of authority
- Demonstrable ability of using tact and diplomacy
- Knowledge and understanding of legislation relevant to practice
- Ability to evaluate care leading to improvement in quality standards an service improvement
- Demonstrable leadership qualities and the ability to perform as a role model
- Willingness to advance own clinical knowledge, skill and competence based on current evidence
Finance/resourcesEssential- Able to effectively manage available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment
Information technology/resourcesEssential- Able to analyse data and produce reports using Microsoft Excel and Word
- Experience of using electronic patient / service user record systems
Additional requirementsEssential- Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English to a standard which enables the post holder to carry out the full range of duties and responsibilities of the role effectively.
Business travelEssential- Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act, able to travel using own vehicle on Trust business.
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. 
