# First Contact Podiatrist **Company**: Promni Health **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: £42,000 to £56,500 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/E0149-26-0176?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_691a588c-b3d ## Description We are looking for a dedicated First Contact Podiatrist to join our innovative, compassionate team. As an autonomous First Contact Practitioner, you'll assess, diagnose and manage patients presenting with foot and ankle conditions without the need for a GP referral. **Job Responsibilities:** - Assess, diagnose, triage, and manage patients, taking responsibility for a complex caseload. - Develop and utilise your full scope of clinical practice, including skills relating to independent prescribing, injection therapy, and investigations when trained. - Manage complex interactions, including working with patients with psychosocial and mental health needs, referring to social prescribing where appropriate. - Deliver programmes of supported self management that facilitate behavioural change, optimise physical activity, mobility, independence, and minimise reliance on pharmacological interventions. - Provide care tailored to individual needs, including appraising the impact of clinical status on general health, wellbeing, and employment. - Support patients to set their own goals and build confidence in self management. - Develop relationships and collaborative working across the PCN, supporting pathway integration in primary care. - Work as part of an MDT in a patient facing role, using expert knowledge of lower limb issues to strengthen links with wider foot and ankle services through clinical leadership, teaching, and evaluation. - Support research and audit programmes to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the FCP service. - Streamline pathways by providing a responsive service that ensures timely access to care. - Lead, manage, and contribute to service delivery. - Implement all aspects of effective clinical governance, including audit, evaluation, supervision, and training. - Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with patients and carers, supporting personalised care. - Provide feedback and support to other PCN clinical team members on appropriate referral criteria. - Critically reflect on your own practice and continue to develop your skills. **Benefits:** - A fast-growing, award-winning clinical organisation that genuinely puts people first - The only MSK organisation in the UK certified as a Great Place to Work - 12.5+ days of protected CPD and supervision time each year - Funded development opportunities **Requirements:** - Fully HCPC and CoP registered practicing Podiatrist - An up-to-date CPD portfolio demonstrating that you have knowledge of the musculoskeletal core capabilities framework for first point of contact practitioners and the four pillars of advanced practice, in addition to identifying your developmental needs against these - Minimum 5 years post-graduate podiatry experience - Qualified injection therapist and / or independent prescriber (desirable) - Completion of some level 7 MSc learning (desirable) ## Skills ### Required - Podiatry - Independent Prescribing - Injection Therapy - Musculoskeletal Core Capabilities Framework ### Nice to have - Qualified Injection Therapist - Independent Prescriber - Completion of some level 7 MSc learning - Previous clinical experience of first contact triage clinical work - Previous experience of working in a GP practice - Previous experience of using EMIS / SystmOne --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/E0149-26-0176?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)