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Job overview

As an expert practitioner provide ongoing teaching, coaching and support to all grades of podiatry staff in their delivery of patient care. 

In collaboration with the Professional Lead for Podiatry provide direction for the future of podiatry through education and supervision, practice development, recruitment, and retention strategies, in line with local and national initiatives.

In this role you will also provide a robust quality and governance programme for staff in the department, with a focus on competencies, audit, governance, outcome measures and innovation.

In this leadership position you will be expected to role model the Trust values while observing and implementing the policies, procedures, and guidelines of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.

You will be experienced, highly motivated, enthusiastic and flexible. 

Applicants must be registered with the HCPC. 

Main duties of the job

• Provide a robust quality and governance framework for staff within the department.
• Attend and participate at directorate quality meetings.
• Maintain a clinical caseload commensurate with hours of the post. 
• Actively contribute to the delivery of an efficient, effective, and safe service.
• Deputise for the Professional Lead as appropriate.
• Provide expert clinical assistance and advice to staff as required.
• Provide operational management and leadership for the team in line with best practice and national standards.
• Promote, monitor, and maintain best practice in health, safety and security.
• To support the Professional Lead in the recruitment, induction, and preceptorship processes of new staff including the regular review of staffing levels and skills mix to ensure they meet the needs of the service, national targets, and Trust objectives.
• To job share the responsibility for budgets, recruitment, stock, and roster management.  
• Lead, facilitate and participate in research projects, clinical audit and other quality projects.
• Deliver educational programmes in relation to clinical practice and professional development.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care