Job Introduction
We are looking for a Band 7 Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist to join our Community Diabetes team in the Dartford / Gravesend area, you will be based from Livingstone Hospital. You will promote the health and wellbeing of people with diabetes enabling them to achieve optimum glycaemic control through informed self-management.
You'll provide a link between GP and consultant led specialist teams and provide education and support both to people with diabetes and those who care for them, whilst supervising and organising the Diabetes led clinics.
This is a community role working hours are between Monday - Friday either 8-4 or 9-5 with no weekend work or bank holidays included.
Main Responsibility
As a Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist, you will be responsible for organising the clinics in the community, managing a defined caseload of patients and providing education and training to patients, their families and carers.
You will ensure the delivery of a high quality and productive service, based on best available evidence, and referring patients to other disciplines e.g. Consultants, GPs, district and practice nurses when necessary.
As we are looking for a Band 7 Specialist Diabetes Podiatrist you'll have the responsibility of ensuring the safe use of equipment, monitoring, and maintenance of standards of care, protocols and guidelines, which will include the training of staff and the implementation of quality control and assurance procedures.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a Podiatry Degree with HCPC Registration, and be a Qualified Mentor with a post-graduate qualification in Diabetes with at least 2 years experience specialising in Diabetes. You will have experience in providing structured education programmes to patients with the ability to make clinical decisions associated with high clinical risk and potential harm to patients.
This is a community service, a full UK driving licence and access to a car is essential.
Package Description
As a Band 7 Specialist Podiatrist, you’ll be part of our valued team at Livingstone Hospital
You will feel valued as a Specialist Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £41,659 - £47,672 Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
- Plentiful on site-parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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