As our Podiatry Assistant, you will be supported by your senior clinicians and report to the Podiatry Clinical Lead. You will continue to learn and develop your clinical skills and support the podiatrists, podiatry students and other health care clinicians on work placement.
You will be assisting the podiatry team in their clinical and administrative duties, contributing to the safe and smooth running of the service.
Package DescriptionAs a Podiatry Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team at our Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital.
You will feel valued as a Podiatry Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
Salary of £22,369.35 pro-rata with group pension
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main Responsibilities
To work as part of a clinical team
A varied and changeable schedule of work
Assess and manage nail pathologies
To educate patients on safe self-foot care and footwear
To assist the Podiatrist with minor nail surgery procedure
To audit stock levels, request purchase orders & process orders
To issue prescription orthotics to patient’s with suitable aftercare advice
To ensure effective communication of information with patients
To maintain professional accurate and accountable patient records.
To understand and apply policies and procedures for the service
Attend domiciliary visits.
The Ideal CandidateThe essential qualities we are looking for in our Podiatry Assistant applicants are:
Minimum of 1 years’ experience as a Podiatry Assistant or Foot Health Practitioner
Must be able to drive and have access to a car to travel to various clinical sites
Strong verbal communication skills
Willingness to undertake professional development
Ability to work under pressure and prioritise caseload
Ability to work independently, without direct supervision if required
Ability to carry out assessments, suitable treatment and discharge where appropriate
To be able to work on your own initiative and problem solve
To resolve patients concerns/ issues at source
To be flexible and adaptable.
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About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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