• Job Description

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  Job summary

  Are you passionate about improving foot health and enhancing quality of life? Join our podiatry team and make a real difference to the lives of patients every day!

  As a Community Podiatrist, you will assess and provide clearly planned podiatric care packages to patients with a variety of care needs, with the aim of maintaining independence and mobility. You will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating with other healthcare professionals to deliver high quality, patient centred care.

  Whether you're a newly registered Podiatrist or experienced practitioner, this is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills in a supportive and forward thinking environment.

  Our offer to you:

  • Rotation into the acute sector as an observer in departments such as vascular and orthopaedics.
  • Encouragement and support with your career progression into advanced clinical roles and leadership roles.

  Our values are at the heart of everything we do, they are:

  • Continuous improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respect
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support

  If you share our values and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we want to hear from you.

  Main duties of the job

  You will work as part of a highly motivated team providing a high standard of clinical care in a variety of community settings, ensuring the provision of seamless care between primary and secondary care.

  You will provide treatment for patients to maintain tissue viability and relieve pain; especially patients who require specialist care packages because they are at special risk due to diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and peripheral vascular disease.

  About us

  Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

  We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

  At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

  Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

  Details

  Date posted

  09 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 5

  Salary

  £29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  350-CC7241964

  Job locations

  Dovecot Health Centre

  Longreach road

  Liverpool

  L14 0NL

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Clinical:

  • Delivery of podiatry in clinical, domiciliary and residential home settings, usually working in isolation, always as an autonomous practitioner.
  • Assessment and treatment of existing patients in line with departmental protocols using judgements involving complex facts about the patients medical conditions, current medication and podiatric needs.
  • Develop treatment plans with expected outcomes and agree with patient how these outcomes may be best achieved. Provide advice to patients on foot health matters.
  • Employ stringent control of cross infection and decontamination measures during daily exposure to infectious material i.e., wound/ulcer dressings, blood, pus or body fluid, unkempt dirty feet, and body and when working in less than hygienic conditions in domiciliary situations.
  • Follow standard operating procedures for podiatry instrument use
  • Assess for nail surgery and undertake nail surgery, supervised by a senior podiatrist. Be responsible for the administration of local analgesia, observation of the patient for adverse reaction and the administration of adrenalin in the event of the patient suffering anaphylactic shock.
  • Assess for orthotics, make and provide chair-side devices, prescribe bespoke orthotics and liaise with appropriate specialist.
  • Have the capability to move and handle patients who may be immobile, wheelchair or bed bound.
  • Work in patients homes/residential homes in confined spaces, with poor lighting, inadequate seating, sitting in a restricted position/ over patient's bed working from a domiciliary bag. Treatment position may be restricted by non-compliance from the patients due to physical, mental or emotional debility.
  • Provide health education advice including one to one advice and education to groups of peers, professionals and patients.
  • Delegate appropriate patients to the care of podiatry assistants.

  Leadership:

  • Assist in the supervision of students, podiatry assistants and new members of staff.
  • Delegate suitable patients to podiatry assistants.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Clinical:

  • Delivery of podiatry in clinical, domiciliary and residential home settings, usually working in isolation, always as an autonomous practitioner.
  • Assessment and treatment of existing patients in line with departmental protocols using judgements involving complex facts about the patients medical conditions, current medication and podiatric needs.
  • Develop treatment plans with expected outcomes and agree with patient how these outcomes may be best achieved. Provide advice to patients on foot health matters.
  • Employ stringent control of cross infection and decontamination measures during daily exposure to infectious material i.e., wound/ulcer dressings, blood, pus or body fluid, unkempt dirty feet, and body and when working in less than hygienic conditions in domiciliary situations.
  • Follow standard operating procedures for podiatry instrument use
  • Assess for nail surgery and undertake nail surgery, supervised by a senior podiatrist. Be responsible for the administration of local analgesia, observation of the patient for adverse reaction and the administration of adrenalin in the event of the patient suffering anaphylactic shock.
  • Assess for orthotics, make and provide chair-side devices, prescribe bespoke orthotics and liaise with appropriate specialist.
  • Have the capability to move and handle patients who may be immobile, wheelchair or bed bound.
  • Work in patients homes/residential homes in confined spaces, with poor lighting, inadequate seating, sitting in a restricted position/ over patient's bed working from a domiciliary bag. Treatment position may be restricted by non-compliance from the patients due to physical, mental or emotional debility.
  • Provide health education advice including one to one advice and education to groups of peers, professionals and patients.
  • Delegate appropriate patients to the care of podiatry assistants.

  Leadership:

  • Assist in the supervision of students, podiatry assistants and new members of staff.
  • Delegate suitable patients to podiatry assistants.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • BSc Hons Degree or diploma in Podiatric Medicine.
  • Registered with HCPC
  • LA certificate

  Values

  Essential

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support
  • High professional standards
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strong customer service belief
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet
  • Change oriented

  Skills

  Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Good time management and organisational skills
  • Demonstrate ability to analyse complex facts / situations and act accordingly
  • Highly developed hand to eye co-ordination

  Knowledge and Experience

  Essential

  • Demonstrate an understanding / willingness to participate in continuous professional development
  • Demonstrate development of a personal portfolio
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the clinical governance agenda
  • Demonstrate active involvement in research, audit or other quality issues
  • Computer literate

  Desirable

  • Demonstrate experience of range of podiatry procedures / situations e.g., orthotics, nail surgery, diabetic footcare, care of the elderly, delivery of care in clinical and domiciliary setting through a variety of student placements

  Other

  Essential

  • Ability to travel for work purposes

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • BSc Hons Degree or diploma in Podiatric Medicine.
  • Registered with HCPC
  • LA certificate

  Values

  Essential

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support
  • High professional standards
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strong customer service belief
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet
  • Change oriented

  Skills

  Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Good time management and organisational skills
  • Demonstrate ability to analyse complex facts / situations and act accordingly
  • Highly developed hand to eye co-ordination

  Knowledge and Experience

  Essential

  • Demonstrate an understanding / willingness to participate in continuous professional development
  • Demonstrate development of a personal portfolio
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the clinical governance agenda
  • Demonstrate active involvement in research, audit or other quality issues
  • Computer literate

  Desirable

  • Demonstrate experience of range of podiatry procedures / situations e.g., orthotics, nail surgery, diabetic footcare, care of the elderly, delivery of care in clinical and domiciliary setting through a variety of student placements

  Other

  Essential

  • Ability to travel for work purposes

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Dovecot Health Centre

  Longreach road

  Liverpool

  L14 0NL

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Dovecot Health Centre

  Longreach road

  Liverpool

  L14 0NL

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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