Clinical Specialist Podiatrist | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2024 |
| Location: | Ipswich, IP3 8LY |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6294609/432-HR319-24 |
Summary
Working as a Clinical Specialist within a dedicated surgical team of staff
including podiatric surgeons, podiatrists, podiatry assistants and support
staff to ensure foot surgery services are provided in a coherent manner in order to fulfil contract obligations.
You will be expected to provide general management support within the Team through developing skills as an extended scope practitioner alongside the Consultant Podiatric Surgeon.
You will be responsible for assessing surgical patients developing treatment plans, coordinating consent, undertake outpatient assessments, developing theatre skills, post-operative follow-up clinics as well as staff training, supervision, mentoring and appraising clinical staff as well as chairing team meetings. Excellent IT skills will be required as well as a sound working knowledge and practical use of SystmOne and PASCOM.
You will need to be flexible to the needs of the service provision and will be expected to keep up to date with clinical and professional developments, exhibit portfolio maintenance and should also take part in research and audit projects. You will need to be well-motivated, flexible and have good clinical, communication and team leading/working skills. You will be responsible for organizing and maintaining caseloads of patients under the leadership of the Consultant Podiatric Surgeon based upon a planned weekly program.
To work as an extended scope practitioner within a highly motivated team, working in a dedicated foot surgery unit providing a high standard of quality clinical care.
Assist Consultant Podiatric Surgeon with special projects, improving service delivery, as integral part of surgical team
Pre-Surgical Assessments
Administration of local anaesthesia (Digital, ankle and popliteal blocks)
Assist in theatre
Post-operative follow-up clinics
Appraisal of staff
Supervision of staff
Mentoring of new staff
Maintain departmental policies, protocols and guidelines in line with evidence based practice
Adhere to PGDs
Be proactive in Trust/departmental audit/research projects/clinical trials
Participate and contribute to Team Meetings
Be aware of KPI and 18 Week RTT Requirements
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 May 2024