Job summary
At Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an inclusive, dedicated organisation working to provide outstanding care to our entitled personnel.

Are you a Band 6 Podiatrist looking for an exciting role, working alongside the military, which offers numerous benefits and opportunities? If the answer is yes, then we are looking to appoint a professional and patient focused individual with a strong commitment to providing a high quality service to work within our friendly and welcoming team at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC), Loughborough.

The vacant post is part time working 18.75 hours per week.

Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

Benefits:

• Access to learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• Free parking
• Free access to sports facilities including swimming pool, gym and tennis courts
• Cinema
• On site shop
• Canteen

Main duties of the job
The Band 6 Podiatrists role is to be responsible for providing MSK rehabilitation to service personnel with complex clinical needs within the Lower Limbs Service. They are also responsible for the routine care of a small inpatient cohort with complex needs. The clinician is required to assess patients pre-surgically and decide on their suitability for surgical intervention. They are required to utilise local anaesthetic injection therapy as well as post-operative wound care dressings and care planning. They are required to keep up to date with rheumatology, vascular pathology, neurological and post-surgical wounds.

About us
Our success depends on our people our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

Job responsibilities

• Providing high-standard MSK podiatry services to outpatient & inpatients at DMRC Stanford Hall.
• Planning and implementing the development of the podiatry service as required to meet demand.
• Assist in evaluating the current need of the podiatry service and contracts within the region.
• Provide MSK podiatry advice/support to the teams at DMRC Stanford Hall.
• Only utilise Ministry of Defence (MOD) approved orthotics in order to complete the evaluation and report.
• Provide input into the DMRC in service training programme as directed by advanced practitioner podiatrist and Officer Commanding (OC) Lower Limbs.
• Support the clinical needs of the inpatient cohort with regular foot care and nail surgery where appropriate.

Person Specification
Registrations and Memberships

• Registered with Health & Care Professions Council.
• Member of Royal College of Podiatry.
• Please provide your membership registration number.
• You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
• Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.

Qualifications

• Degree in Podiatry.

Experience

• Have experience in the assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders.

Desirable

• Considering or undertaking a postgraduate specialist training to Masters Level or equivalent in Clinical Biomechanics / Advanced clinical practice.
• Minimum of 2 years post-graduate clinical experience.
• Evidence of attendance of related courses.
• Experience of working with a military population.

Additional information
This 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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours.