Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Podiatrist
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Bexley Community Podiatry Team - Podiatrist
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated Podiatrist to join the Bexley Community Podiatry Team. We are a friendly and close-knit team who takes pride in what we do.
This is a fixed-term post for 12 months to cover maternity leave.
Bexley Podiatry
Bexley Podiatry is within the Oxleas Trust which was included in the Sunday Times Top 10 Best place to work list 2023. In 2023 it was named the Best Place to work in the country for people with disabilities and also won the prestigious HSJ Trust of the Year Award.
Bexley Podiatry is a high-risk service which is close to the London Borough of Greenwich.
Responsibilities
- Use and develop your skills and knowledge across our service.
- Develop strong links and working relationships with acute hospital trusts.
- Rotate into these services.
- Run clinics alongside Diabetologists and Diabetic specialist nurses.
- Work with Diabetes specialist nurses, District nurses, Tissue Viability, and the MSK services.
- Work within clinical settings as well as carrying out domiciliary visits.
- Plan and deliver care plans for patients at high risk of developing foot complications.
- Work with patients who have foot ulcerations, make onward referrals to vascular services, refer into the Diabetes MDT service and acute services.
- Work within the Diabetes Specialist nurse MDT and sit on the vascular phone calls with the acute MDFT.
- Attend handover with the district nurses and manage your domiciliary ulcer caseload.
- Undertake nail surgery and carry out new patient assessments.
- Undertake clinical audits as required by the service.
- Become involved in Quality improvement projects.
- Access Podiatry CPD training events, both in-house and external.
- Regular clinical supervision and support.
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Requirements
A car and/or the ability to move around the borough is essential to this role.
About Oxleas
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and people’s homes.
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We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose
To improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Contact
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Tanya Chapman
- Job title: Team Lead
- Email address: tanya.chapman9@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02083203550
Email for applications: oxl-tr.bexleycommunitypodiatry@nhs.net
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