# Bank Specialist Podiatrist

**Company**: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £24.66 an hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Bank Specialist Podiatrist to join our team. As a Specialist Podiatrist, you will work autonomously as part of a multidisciplinary team, assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with a wide range of foot and lower limb pathologies.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with various podiatric conditions, including systemic, vascular, neurological, dermatological, and musculoskeletal disorders, wounds, deformities, nail and skin conditions, paediatric conditions, and emergencies

- Developing, implementing, evaluating, and documenting individualized treatment plans

- Providing care to diverse patients, including children, elderly, housebound, and vulnerable patients, adapting communication and treatment to individual needs

- Participating in diabetic and high-risk foot clinics, including diabetic foot assessments, risk stratification, management of diabetic foot disease and ulcers, wound swabbing, infection management, and urgent referral or hospital admission where required

- Assessing and treating lower-limb musculoskeletal conditions, including prescribing and evaluating insoles, orthotics, exercise programs, and bespoke foot orthoses

- Undertaking minor surgery, including nail surgery and electro-surgery, administering local analgesia, and managing emergency complications, including anaphylaxis

- Participating in rotations, including Nail Surgery, Acute Foot Services, Biomechanics, Low-Level Laser Therapy, and Podiatric Surgery, maintaining clinical competence, and delivering safe, patient-centered care

The Trust offers a range of benefits, including:

- Flexible working options

- London Living Wage accreditation

- Recent investment in workforce growth across key services

- Recognition as a great place to work, including a London NHS Parliamentary Award in 2020

The post is bank-funded, with a salary of £24.66 per hour, and a flexible working pattern.

## Skills

### Required
- podiatry
- clinical assessment
- diagnosis
- treatment planning
- patient care
- communication
- diabetic foot care
- musculoskeletal assessment
- minor surgery
- electro-surgery
- local analgesia administration

### Nice to have
- IRMER certificate
- POMs certificate
- CPD portfolio

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