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Main area podiatry Grade 3 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 days per week between Monday - Friday 08.15-16.15) Job ref 828-PROVIDE4248
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Springfield Green Clinic Town Chelmsford Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/09/2026 23:59
Job Overview
We are looking for a caring, enthusiastic, and motivated Health Care Support Worker to join our friendly Podiatry Service. You will play an important role in supporting the podiatry team to provide safe, effective, and person-centred care to our patients.
We are looking for someone who is compassionate, reliable, and able to communicate well with patients and colleagues. You will need to work well as part of a team, demonstrate a positive attitude, and be willing to develop your skills to support the podiatry service effectively. Attention to detail, good organizational skills, and the ability to support clinical procedures are essential.
Experience within a healthcare environment would be advantageous, but we are equally interested in candidates who demonstrate the right values, commitment to patient care, and willingness to learn. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their career within a supportive community podiatry service.
Main duties of the job
- To support the team in providing a highly specialised podiatry service in a clinic setting to adults with a range of foot care needs, providing a high standard of clinical care in community settings.
- To assist the registered staff in ensuring appropriate pathways of care for patients who require those services.
- To contribute to the assessment and treatment of individual patients on the caseload and communicate any changes in care needs to the registered staff.
- Provide clerical and clinical assistance to Podiatrists in the treatment of a wide range of Podiatric conditions.
- To contribute to the smooth running of the clinic, ordering stock ensuring stock levels are maintained, and the clinic is set up appropriately.
- Carry out observations, record accurately, and report abnormal results to senior colleagues.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive, and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes, and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families, and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia, and the North of England.
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A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times:
- Vision: Transforming Lives
- Values: Care, Innovation, and Compassion
- Mission: An ambitious, employee-owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring, and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Eligible for NHS Pension
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- To help implement and evaluate podiatric care to a variety of patients with a wide range of clinical needs, e.g., high-risk diabetes, chronic neuropathy, vascular problems, and rheumatoid arthritis, under the supervision of a podiatrist.
- To provide foot care in line with the individual treatment plan in the form of education, assessments, and redressing’s for wound care patients where required.
- To notify the podiatrist if there is any change in the patient’s health status that may influence the treatment plan.
- To ensure that all information relating to clients and staff gained through employment with the Trust is kept confidential. Disclosure to any unauthorized person is a serious disciplinary offence.
- Understands the processes, techniques, equipment, terminology, and basic theory relevant to the work area.
- To maintain accurate patient records if required, using the SystmOne record system.
- Understands relevant legislation, policy, and guidance.
- Able to carry out delegated tasks and take responsibility for the completion of tasks.
- Able to solve straightforward problems by integrating information from more expert sources.
- Understands when to seek guidance from more expert practitioners.
- Can undertake basic maintenance of work area equipment. Ensure all equipment is maintained.
Person specification
Essential criteria
- Education
Desirable criteria
- Experience in working in healthcare
Essential criteria
- Able to drive
Desirable criteria
- Good computer skills
FURTHER INFORMATION:
How will we contact you?
All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails. As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager. If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination. We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
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Disability
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Work Trials
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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices, and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant:
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
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