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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.
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.
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.