Podiatry Diabetes Lead

  • Permanent – full-time
  • Crawley

Website nhs_scft Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist

Band 7 1 WTE (37.5 hours per week)

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Podiatrist in Diabetic Foot Care to join our combined Podiatry North / Brighton & Hove locality teams on a permanent basis. We are inviting formal expressions of interest for the role to start from 1st April 2024. The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership in diabetic foot care across the localities, though most of the clinical activity will be in the North locality. This post offers the chance for someone to develop their clinical and leadership skills by providing a high level of foot care to the community while offering supervision and mentorship to colleagues.

Main duties of the job

Key areas of responsibility:

The Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist provides an advanced level of clinical and professional leadership across the Podiatry North / Brighton & Hove localities and to provide specialist clinical advice to colleagues regarding complex patients who will primarily present in the North locality.

They will work with the Professional Lead to ensure staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered.

The Diabetes Clinical Lead Podiatrist will work with the Operational Team Leads and the Clinical Services Manager to develop key partnerships and to ensure services continue to develop in line with Trust transformation programmes and the SCFT Clinical Strategy.

The post holder will be supported in their development where needed and appropriate training will be available.

For further information, please contact Lucy Lewin or Johnny Black.

If you are interested in this post, please complete the attached application form and email jonathan.black5@nhs.net by the end of the 14th July 2024.

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.