Podiatry General Support Worker - Truro, United Kingdom - Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Truro, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Podiatry General Support Worker:

Band 2:

Main area

Podiatry

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Grade

Band 2

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Contract

Permanent

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Hours

Full time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week
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Job ref

Site

Various 3 posts, one each in Liskeard, CRCH, Truro Health Park areas and vicinities.

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Town

Truro

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Salary
- £22,383 Pro rata
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Salary period

Yearly

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Closing

Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

_ Strategic Themes_

_ Great Care_
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

_Great Organisation_
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

_Great People_
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

_Great Partner_
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a 'home' office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._

Job overview:

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and adaptable individual to join our caring and progressive Podiatry team in Cornwall who is passionate about providing clinical excellence.

As a podiatry general support worker your responsibilities will vary, giving assistance to podiatrists in a variety of clinics mainly to podiatrists providing specialised care such as wound management and nail surgery.

The job role encompasses enabling and assisting the clinical team to provide a calm, safe and friendly environment for our patients.

3 posts are available at various locations across the county.

Post - Liskeard/ Launceston/Bodmin

Post 2 Helston/Truro Health Park/ Cambourne and Redruth

Post 3 Cambourne and Redruth/Falmouth/ Truro

You will work alongside experienced podiatrists and are encouraged in your own professional development. We offer regular clinical supervision, peer review and in-house CPD to support the development of our staff. Further training and development opportunities external to the organisation are supported via access to an individually allocated fund.

Main duties of the job:

The purpose of this post is to work as part of the Podiatry Team to provide general assistant tasks in accordance with Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust protocols and standards

These tasks may include:

General social interaction with patients, talking, observing and escalating concerns
Wiping down of equipment used between patients
Meet and greet
Unpacking weekly stock orders and ensuring stock is rotated and in date
Carrying out delegated duties under the supervision of our trained and experienced staff
To report any concerns or issues to senior staff in charge
To make or receive telephones calls to admin, patients, patient's carers or GP surgeries

Working for our organisation:

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us.

As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our