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Musculoskeletal Podiatrist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,521 - £41,956 pa inc |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2025 |
| Location: | Greenwich, SE3 0EN |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6947618/277-69476180-CPH |
Summary
This post is a specialist podiatry clinical training post within the Oxleas Greenwich Musculoskeletal team. The post holder will work with other AHPs at designated clinic sites in Greenwich to provide seamless musculoskeletal treatment plans within our community clinics. The post holder will develop high level assessment clinical skills ready to employ a range of treatment options including custom and chairside orthotics, shockwave therapy, exercise therapy, manual therapy, injection therapy and diagnostic ultrasound.
• Assessment and management of patients presenting to the service with complaints involving the lower limb and specifically those of the foot and ankle.
• The post holder will work as a multi disciplinary team comprising physiotherapists, podiatrists, podiatric surgeons and extended scope practitioners.
• The post holder will be responsible for maintaining a caseload including accurate clinical notes.
• Contribution towards team meetings and training with the local and larger team will be integral aspects of the role
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• To provide assessment and MSK podiatry treatment to clients in community clinics.
• To provide advanced neurological & biomechanical assessment of foot function to isolate the cause of the pathology so that pathways of care can be followed by the team responsible for individual patient care.
• To undertake advanced gait assessment.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner, developing & agreeing treatment plans individually with clients. Support from senior staff is provided.
• To develop treatment plans and discharge plans through an agreed contract with each client, and to follow through the treatment plan with an end result of improved foot pathology & discharge where appropriate.
• To assess all clients at every visit and refer to specialist services as appropriate.
• To prescribe, and manufacture, orthoses/insoles/appliances/and shoe adaptations when required using the laboratory equipment.
• To be responsible for protection of health and wellbeing of all clients. Alert others to concerns where protection may be required for both children and vulnerable adults.
• To appropriately refer clients to specialist teams whenever needed.
• Dealing sensitively and appropriately with a client caseload with complex health needs, assisting individuals to manage their health needs effectively.
• To work within the community care team to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to improvement of foot pathology.
• Always aiming to achieve with each client maximum independence through self-care and effective client management.
This advert closes on Monday 24 Feb 2025
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