Specialist Podiatrist

Job overview

We are looking for a Podiatrists to join our  growing  dynamic team at Guys & St.Thomas' Hospital. This post is hospital based within the central London in the Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, in this post there will be an opportunity to support our community colleagues in treating high risk patients in the community. The post will involve wound care management. The suitable candidate should be self-motivated and have a broad range of post-graduate clinical experience and will be working alongside a multidisciplinary team.  Patient care takes place in both out and in-patient setting. You may also be required to occasionally cover our satellite clinic.   You will be working within a team and must have good communication skills.  There will be supervision and mentoring from colleagues for continual CPD. In addition regular team meeting updates on Department and Trust positions.

Main duties of the job

• To work within an in-and out-patient settling
• To triage referral and work within in the NICE guidelines.
• To assess and treat the high risk case load with advanced wound management methods and work within a multidisciplinary team
• Candidate must be highly motivated and should be able to cope with clinical emergencies win a pressurised environment.
• To be able to total contact cast, apply Negative pressure devices, apply larvae and other complex advanced techniques
• To build a working network with all community services to benefit patients.
• Maintain the education  element and referral pathways for GPs, District Nurses, Urgent Care team
• Teaching and managing junior staff
• Audit /Data collection and reporting

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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• Based at Guys and ST. Thomas' hospital sites
• To triage referral and work within in the NICE guidelines.
• To assess and treat the high risk case load with advanced wound management methods
• To build a working network with all community services to benefit patients.
• Maintain the education  element and referral pathways for GPs, District Nurses, Urgent Care team
• Teaching and managing junior staff
• Data collection and reporting

The service will work across borders within South East London in a collaborative approach to reduce the variation in outcomes, allowing the prompt repatriation of patients and the provision of specialist care closer to home. Initially the service will operate 5 days a week, but in time will move to working 6 days a week.