Podiatry Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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We are looking for a enthusiastic, motivated and caring individual to support the Podiatry Service in the delivery of quality foot care to the residents of South East London.


Guy's and St Thomas's Community Foot Health are a large community team of almost thirty podiatrists who work across nine clinical sites in the central London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark and you will need to work flexibly across our boroughs.


Ideally you will have previous experience in a healthcare environment, be a good communicator and have the ability to work unsupervised.

Good IT skills are essential as the role will involve regular use of computer based clinical systems. Comprehensive in-service training will be provided to enable you to undertake the role.


Patient care takes place in a wide variety of settings including community clinics, GP practices, hospitals and in patients' own homes where you will have access to our fleet of pool cars.

You will be issued with your own tablet for clinical use.


This role is both challenging and rewarding in equal measure so If you think you have what it takes to join us and would like to be part of one of the largest hospital trusts in the UK then please do apply, we look forward to hearing from you.

To assist the podiatrists to carry out foot care and health promotion activities


To carry out delegated foot care in a range of locations, including clinical, domiciliary, hospital, and other external settings with a holistic and multidisciplinary approach.

To organise and assist in the smooth running of podiatric clinics and to ensure stock levels are maintained.


Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts.

We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.


We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.

We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.


We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally.

We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

To assist the podiatrists to carry out foot care and health promotion activities


To carry out delegated foot care in a range of locations, including clinical, domiciliary, hospital, and other external settings with a holistic and multidisciplinary approach.

To organise and assist in the smooth running of podiatric clinics and to ensure stock levels are maintained.

To carry out and prioritise own caseload of patients with simple predictable conditions as delegated by the podiatrist

To provide competent treatment to patients within set clinical protocols as appropriate

Ability to work with mínimal or no immediate supervision - using initiative

To use own clinical judgement and knowledge in regards to progressing and/or adapting treatment programmes within agreed clinical protocols and parameters

To assist with the care of patients as appropriate

To assist the therapist with individual and group treatments / exercise and/or clinics

To be able to recognise change in the condition or reaction of a patient with guidance from therapists and to watch the patient response to any treatment undertaken

To demonstrate an awareness and an ability to manage clinical risk

To comply with the Health and Safety Regulations

To be able to cope with occasional, potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner

To attend mandatory training


To treat a wide variety of patient groups including those with special needs, the housebound, children, the elderly adults, vulnerable groups and those from different cultural backgrounds with the possibility of communication barriers.

To undertake a domiciliary caseload of at least 2 days a week.

To be responsible for competent use and maintenance of all equipment used to report defects in equipment


To maintain and order stocks of equipment and ensure good ordering records are kept to allow payment of invoices in a timely manner.

To assist with non-clinic
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