Community Podiatrist with Relocation Package - Hereford, United Kingdom - Wye Valley NHS Trust

Wye Valley NHS Trust

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Hereford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment, including patient education, for conditions of the foot and related structures to improve mobility, reduce pain and maintain tissue viability

Provide a Podiatry service for patients with complex pathologies of the foot with a range of often coexisting medical, long term conditions including Diabetes.

To fully assess, differentially diagnose and clinically manage patients, devising, implementing and delivering care packages and taking responsibility for individual patient discharge.

To provide assessment, diagnosis and specialist packages of care to patients with complex, multifactor foot pathologies and existing longterm conditions.
To communicate sensitive and complex condition related information to clients and their families in a way which is easily comprehensible and allows for possible barriers to understanding.
To liaise with other professionals and support workers on best strategies to meet client's needs, promoting client empowerment though health education.
To direct and refer to Podiatry Support Workers.
To undertake a reasonable number of treatments within the contracted hours and emergency treatments as necessary, as directed by the Professional Lead.
To undertake assessment and treatment of domiciliary patients, ensuring efficient use of Podiatry Support Workers' clinical time for visits as appropriate.
To discuss and refer as appropriate any complex or complicated cases to the appropriate specialist Podiatrist e.g. Podiatric surgery, MSK Podiatrist or specialist diabetes Podiatrist.
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Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman:
"The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time all the time.

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view 'supporting documents' linked to this vacancy.