Podiatry Apprentice

Job overview

Are you caring, compassionate, motivated and interested in developing your career within the health service? Then this may be the opportunity for you! Join us at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT). Following successful completion of the programme, you will be awarded a degree-level equivalent qualification (level six) and can move into a role as a qualified Podiatrist. The Podiatry Apprenticeship is a new route to ‘Learn while you Earn’ and combines 4 years of clinical employment, work based learning, and academic learning. During the programme you will be an employee of Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust and a student at a Higher Education Institution (HEI). During the apprenticeship you will develop skills and knowledge that will allow you to work in today’s dynamic and changing health and social care environment. Whilst you will be based in one specific team, your placements will allow you to experience a variety of learning environments. You will be working across both internal and external clinical placements to gain an appreciation of the different areas of the local healthcare service and in order to meet the Podiatry practice learning requirements. As many of our bases are away from public transport routes, it is a requirement of the role that you are able to drive and have access to a car (subject to the provisions of the Equality Act 2010).

Main duties of the job

You will be employed as a Podiatry Apprentice at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT). The service is delivered in Community Clinics, Health Centres, GP surgeries, Acute and Community Hospital Sites, Prisons and patient’s own home. All staff are given the opportunity to get involved in a wide variety and scope of practice. If you are looking for a challenging post and want to deliver the best podiatry care for your patients then this post will be ideal for you. At the end of the four-year programme, you will be equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviours relevant to the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), The standards of proficiency for chiropodists / podiatrists and will be a fully qualified Podiatrist. As an employee of KCHFT you will demonstrate our values, and once you have completed all the requirements for registration as a qualified Podiatrist, you will become a Band 5 Podiatrist within the Trust.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.  If you feel you qualify for sponsorship via a discounted salary threshold, please contact us via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number and how you feel you qualify for a discounted salary threshold.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application.  We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

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At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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