Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist podiatrist- Diabetes
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Are you an experienced and passionate Podiatrist, looking to develop your clinical and leadership skills? The Diabetes and Podiatry team would like you to join the team to help deliver and improve outcomes for people with diabetes foot complications.
You will support the hospital diabetes team (based in UHD Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospitals sites) to deliver high quality care. You will be forward thinking, with excellent communication, organisational, interpersonal skills and have an enthusiasm for improving patient care. The ability to liaise effectively with patients, members of the diabetes foot MDT, podiatry team leads and the wider healthcare team to ensure timely delivery of care will be essential. Your clinical work will involve looking after people with complex diabetes related foot complications.
Role Responsibilities:
- Delivering high quality specialist foot care within the hospital diabetes podiatry team, working closely with the wider DHC and UHD clinical teams.
- Undertaking assessment and management of people with diabetes foot complications, creating clinical management plans, and providing specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of patients/service users.
- Providing education and health promotion.
- Providing a high-quality person-centred approach to care delivery which always considers people’s safety, privacy, and dignity.
- Providing supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students, apprentices and trained practitioners.
- Helping to monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research and education. To promote and demonstrate best practice by integrating evidence into practice.
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About Us:
We offer a supportive team working environment, pastoral and peer support with excellent learning and development opportunities. Your career is important to us, and we will support you in your ongoing clinical and leadership development.
This sought after role is a part-time position, for 33.75 hours per week. We will try to be flexible to accommodate a positive work life balance. Being a car driver with use of a vehicle is essential for this role, as there will be some travel between sites.
At Dorset HealthCare we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.
We do things differently here – it’s one of the reasons the CQC rated us ‘outstanding’ in 2019. It’s also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you’re looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.
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Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.
Working with us you’ll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don’t know. And you’ll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.
Contact Information:
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Claire Sommerville
- Job title: Diabetes Podiatry Team Lead
- Email address: claire.sommerville1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07881006165
Note:
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of.
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