Job Opportunity: Experienced Specialist Podiatrist

We encourage those who would like to work with a small friendly team and is interested in a full-time or part-time position looking to develop their skills in managing the high-risk foot to apply.

Are you passionate about Podiatry? Would you like to work for a Trust whose mission is to promote health and quality of life in partnership with people & communities?

As An Experienced Specialist Podiatrist Within RDaSH You Would

• Work in varied settings across Doncaster.
• Provide quality care which focuses on those with high-risk conditions, rotate into MDT foot ulcer team, nail surgery.
• Formulate & implement podiatry interventions, including lower limb MSK assessment, manufacture & provision of insoles for those at increased risk due to long-term conditions.
• An annual appraisal & personal development plan, supportive mentorship & essential learning required by the Trust. RDaSH engage, involve & support staff to reach their full potential.
• To become part of our Team - involvement in team meetings, make valuable suggestions to influence & help make changes to service, to use innovative technology and make a real difference to patient’s health.
• To be responsible for the planning and management of complex and specialised caseloads involving the implementation and coordination of highly specialised treatment regimes.
• To assess, plan and provide the highest quality programmes of podiatric care to patients with a variety of care needs in a variety of settings, especially patients requiring specialist care.
• To provide professional lead in treatment plans to patients to maintain mobility, independence, viability and to relieve discomfort especially for those patients who are “at risk” because of Diabetics, PVD, Peripheral Neuropathy, RA.
• To act as clinical lead overseeing Podiatrist and Podiatry Assistant.
• To adhere to podiatry department and Trust policies, strategies and objectives, and actively contribute in a senior role in their development.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team and act as a source of specialist advice for patients, carers, GP’s, other healthcare professionals and for less senior podiatrists within the podiatry team.
• To maintain and improve assessment and treatment knowledge and skills based upon best practice, particularly specialist knowledge and skills in Diabetes, Rheumatology, Biomechanics, wound management and other core CPD subjects.
• To work in a variety of settings either as part of a highly specialised hospital team, podiatric surgery theatre, outpatient clinic and provide minor surgery in day theatre when appropriate.