# Bank Podiatrist Band 6

**Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Eltham
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: bank
**Salary**: £48,307 a year pro rata pa inc
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for HCPC registered Podiatrists to join our community podiatry teams to work on bank.

The role will include assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of high-risk patients. The postholder will be expected to provide a full range of podiatry treatments to clients in community clinics, client's home, and care homes. This will include wound dressings, scalpel debridement of nail & soft tissue pathology & care of foot problems resulting from neglect & lack of self-care.

**Main duties of the job**

- Assess, diagnose, develop, and implement personalised care plans for patients with a wide variety of complex clinical needs.

- Plan and manage your own case load, be punctual and reliable.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required for this role.

- Travel across Greenwich and Bexley to work including home visits.

**Person Specification**

- Qualifications: HCPC Registered Podiatrist, BSc (Hons) Podiatry.

- Training and Experience: Worked as a band 5 podiatrist for a minimum of 12 months, Previous NHS experience in wound care, Domiciliary and Nursing Home Experience.

- Skills and Abilities: Effective communication skills - written and verbal, Good interpersonal skills, Previous wound care/ high risk foot experience.

**Benefits**

- Flexible working

- Bank contract

**Job Responsibilities**

- Provide assessment and the full range of podiatry treatments to clients in community and outreach clinics, hospital, clients home, Health Centres, Care Homes and Day Centres.

- Work as an autonomous practitioner, developing & agreeing treatment plans individually with clients.

- Be responsible for protection of health and wellbeing of all clients.

## Skills

### Required
- Podiatry
- Wound care
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills

### Nice to have
- Post graduate qualifications in relevant area
- Experience with Research/audit/ Qi
- Line management experience

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