Senior Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist to work within our Podiatry team.

The Senior Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist will work in partnership with patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes with moderate, high risk and active foot problems in a community setting, aiming to improve outcomes for patients. This includes the development of clinic-based care, home visits, along with healthcare professional and patient education programmes for diabetes management.

Diabetes Care for You is a multidisciplinary community diabetes service covering Brighton, Hove, High Weald and the Havens in East Sussex. The service comprises of consultants, nurses, dietitians, podiatrists, psychologists and support staff, that all contribute to the development of this innovative service.

The podiatrists also support with the Multi-Disciplinary Foot Team down at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will also establish and maintain effective working relationships with health professionals in both primary and secondary care. They will work alongside the Lead Podiatrist to develop their clinical skills, and those of the team of Band 5 and Band 6 Podiatrists, to ensure the provision of high quality specialist podiatry care to patients. This role offers an excellent opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team integrating physical and psychological support.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

- Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
- Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussex
- Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
- Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
- Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief network
- Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
- Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values -- Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence -- guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job responsibilities

To ensure the provision of a robust, integrated arrangement of care for diabetic feet within the community diabetes service and across the interface between Tier 3 and Tier 4 patients, providing a consistent high quality and a systematic approach to patient care.

The post holder will carry a high risk diabetic clinical caseload, using their highly developed specialist skills to ensure that patients receive the best evidence based care package.

The clinician will be required to participate in regular Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings within the service in order to input into this forum of patient care.

This role will require the triage of incoming referrals ensuring that they are allocated to the right level of speciality within the service, or referring on to other specialities, services or agencies as appropriate.

To clinically supervise Band 5 and 6 members of the podiatry team, acting as a clinical mentor, this role extends to students placed within the service and clinicians on rotation from the podiatry service. The post holder will be accountable, with the Lead Podiatrist, for the delivery of safe effective Podiatric care within the pathway.

To participate in team meetings and to regularly update the staff on developments within the field of diabetes.

To attend regional and local expert reference groups.

Person Specification

Qualifications

- BSc Podiatry or equivalent
- MSc (working towards) or equivalent experience
- Evidence of Post graduate Continual Professional Development
- Evidence of working at nationally accepted competency level for Band 7 Diabetes Specialist
- Holder of Independent prescriber certification

Experience

- Substantial post graduate experience preferably covering both acute and community clinical work. To include significant experience providing specialist care for the patients with diabetes
- Developing specialised programmes of care
- Working in multi-disciplinary setting
- Undertaking clinical audit
- Comprehensive evidence of relevant lifelong learning and post graduate training
- Undertaking research in a health care setting

Skills and Knowledge

- Complex diabetic wound assessment and management
- Vascular assessment and associated podiatric management
- Experience in the provision of health education
- Ability to use the Microsoft Office Suite of programs

Other requirements

- This position will require the post holder to be independently mobile and own a vehicle for personal transport as it will require regular travel across East Sussex and the Brighton and Hove area

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearPer annum/pro rata

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