Are you a Podiatrist who has an interest in diabetes? Would you like to join an award-winning service that does things a bit differently?
Our Diabetes podiatry service is expanding and we are looking for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking individual to join our clinically-led team.
What’s the role?
- You’ll work across specialist inpatient and outpatient services as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- You’ll manage a complex clinical caseload, utilising your podiatry skills and you will be supported to gain additional skills and knowledge to aid you in your role.
- You’ll be encouraged to work on service developments and contribute to staff and patient education.
We are proud of our North East Essex Diabetes Service (NEEDS); it’s an award winning, progressive service with a multi-disciplinary team who are experts in their fields. The service set up allows us to be responsive to changes and we have a strong focus on service development.
We provide specialist diabetes care to the 21,000 people living with diabetes across North East Essex, in the form of specialist diabetes clinics for the most complex cases, young persons, pre pregnancy, antenatal, insulin pump and MDT foot clinics, numerous local and national diabetes patient structured education courses and a strong emphasis on up skilling and supporting primary care via education sessions, mentorship and in practice support alongside supporting delivery of Diabetes Masters modules at the University of Essex.
We pride ourselves on our close collaborative working with multiple services including vascular and orthopaedic teams as well as community services such as community nursing, lifestyle services, health in mind, pharmacy and the CCG. We are an enthusiastic, friendly team and strive to provide a patient centred, safe, effective and high-quality service. We nurture an environment of supportive learning with regular CPD and we strongly encourage audit and service improvement initiatives.
The role is based at Colchester Hospital, but the service is run by Suffolk GP Federation CIC, a not-for-profit community interest company.
Is it for me?
We will make sure you are fully inducted and trained; there will be regular constructive supervision in place. It is important to us that you feel safe and supported in your clinical decision making.
You’d be suited to this role if:
- You are self-motivated & enthusiastic and consider yourself an innovative team player who is able to work as an autonomous practitioner.
- You enjoy working with patients with the most complex foot problems, including acute presentations Charcot, infected foot ulcers and critical limb ischaemia.
- You have a Minimum of 4 years post registration experience and a knowledge of diabetic foot disease gained from relevant role/ basic study and experience is ideal.
- You have excellent communication and organisational skills including an ability to use own initiative and prioritise your own work load
What we can offer you:
- A strong ethos of flexible working, to help us maintain (or reclaim) that work/life balance
- Agile working, enabling us to work from a variety of bases, interacting with your teams at the most appropriate location
- Innovative teams who strive in forward thinking, with a voice that is heard
- A visible and supportive management team, with operational support that ‘get it’
- Excellent IT teams & support giving us first class equipment and ‘no wait’ responses
- A commitment to personal development, training and leadership opportunities, with service-managed training budgets
- Cycle to work scheme
- Death in service cover
- Competitive salaries with annual benchmarking
- 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays) on starting, rising to 29 days (plus bank holidays) after 5 years’ service
- Blue light card employer – Access to the discount service with thousands of discounts online and on the high street
Interested? Have questions? Just wondering? Get in touch with our Lead Podiatrist Angela angelabarry@nhs.net - we’d love to hear from you.
Interview date: Tuesday 2nd August