Specialist Diabetic Podiatrist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 27 Chwefror 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | £53,751.00 i £60,651.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £53751.00 - £60651.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Enfield, EN2 0JB |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9391-26-0392 |
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1. CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES 1.1. To be responsible for the podiatric assessment, diagnosis, delivery, and evaluation of care plans using a variety of appropriate treatment regimens for high risk and at-risk patient categories. Working either uni-professionally or within a multidisciplinary team. 1.2. To hold responsibility for own caseload working as an autonomous clinical expert within diabetes/high risk foot pathologies. 1.3. Triage referrals as required monitoring waiting lists, prioritising and redirecting patients according to medical and podiatric need. 1.4. To ensure effective communication of complex and highly sensitive and emotional information to patients, this requires excellent interpersonal and counselling skills. 1. RESPONSIBILITY FOR PATIENTS 2.1. To be responsible for the clinical provision of diabetic/high risk care. 2.2. To undertake tailored care packages dependent on patients complex needs. To use advanced clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment techniques to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis of their condition. 2.3. Formulate and deliver individual treatment plans based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and utilize extended skills such as offloading and performing ABPIs. 2.4. To evaluate and review agreed patient treatment outcomes to facilitate patients engagement/self-care/onward referral. 2.5. To work in close collaboration with the community diabetic team including the Diabetic Specialist Nurse and Tissue Viability Specialist to ensure a holistic approach to the management of the at-risk and high risk patient is met. 2.6. To take a proactive role in the planning and delivery of Health Promotion and Health Education to users and health care professionals (HCP). Including promoting the departments services to other HCP to ensure appropriate patients are referred to Podiatry. And to develop and deliver a training programme for HCP for screening the at risk diabetic foot in Community/Primary Care. To deliver diabetic education to users in conjunction with the diabetes service. 2.7. To understand offloading the high-risk foot and prescribe, modify, and fit off the shelf orthoses/insoles as required. To liaise with extended care network including orthopaedics, and surgical appliances to ensure that the patients rehabilitation needs are met. 2.8. Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment. 2.9. To work within Trust clinical guidelines, national and professional body guidelines and standards, thus, to have a good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practice as appropriate. 2.10. To be responsible for maintaining accurate comprehensive patient treatment records in line with recognised professional standards of practice (i.e. Royal College of Podiatrists) and BEH policies. To record patient appointment outcomes on Rio within 24 hours. 2.11. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care. 2.12. Where appropriate, to supervise and provide mentoring to other podiatrists and lot care assistants. 2.13. To be responsible for the maintenance and security of stock in own work area, with the added responsibility of some clinical online ordering. 2.14. To refer patients on as necessary to other healthcare professionals to ensure appropriate care is provided and to follow Trust referral timeline. 2.15 To deliver diabetic health education to service users.