Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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Job overview

A specialist podiatrist is an autonomous foot and lower-limb clinician who diagnoses, treats, and manages complex patient cases—most notably high-risk groups such as individuals with diabetes, severe peripheral arterial disease, neuropathy, and chronic foot ulceration.

To have highly developed physical skills, precision hand/eye co-ordination and be able to concentrate for prolonged periods.
To have the capability to safely move and handle patients who may be immobile, wheelchair or bed-bound often in confined spaces.

To provide care in a range of primary care and residential settings, some of which may be in isolation.

To be responsible for the assessment diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation of Podiatric care to a variety of patients with a wide range of complex clinical needs including:

o   High and increased risk diabetes,

o   Neurological and vascular disease.

o   Rheumatologic and biomechanical conditions.

o   Mental health conditions.

To be responsible for the assessment of new patients with subsequent production of individual care packages and provision of the appropriate foot care education and self-management advice to patients and/or their carers.

Main duties of the job

The role requires the ability to work autonomously and effectively within the multidisciplinary team and seek support when necessary to ensure safe effective care.

To determine clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated, and to maintain excellent clinical records.

The post holder will be responsible for a defined population of service users across the Trust including community clinics and domiciliary and hospital setting.

To maintain and develop skills and knowledge to deliver a range of interventions and sets an example of good practice to other team members including skill sharing.

To be responsible for documenting client activity data, health promotion, training and education data in accordance with information governance guidelines, departmental and trust standards.

To be responsible for effective time management, meeting deadlines and responding to fluctuating workloads and organising, planning and prioritising clinical and non-clinical workload.

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