Diabetic Specialist Podiatrist with managerial responsibility

1. To be responsible for the clinical provision of diabetic/high risk foot care.2. To undertake tailored care packages dependent on patients complex needs. To use advanced clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment techniques to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis of their condition.3. Formulate and deliver individual treatment plans based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and utilize extended skills such as offloading and performing ABPis/toe pressures as necessary.4. To evaluate and review agreed patient treatment outcomes to facilitate patients engagement/self-care/onward referral.5. To work in close collaboration with the community foot protection team including the Diabetic Specialist Nurse, Tissue Viability Specialist and DNs to ensure an Holistic approach to the management of the at-risk and high risk patient.6. To take a proactive role in the planning and delivery of Health Promotion and Health Education to users and health care professionals (HCP). Including promoting the department services to other HCP to ensure appropriate patients are referred to Podiatry.7. To understand offloading the high-risk foot and prescribe, modify, and fit off the shelf orthoses/insoles as required. To liaise with extended care network including orthopaedics, and surgical appliances to ensure that the patients rehabilitation needs are met. 8. Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent, and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.9. To work within Trust clinical guidelines, national and professional body guidelines and standards, thus, to have a good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practice as appropriate.10. To be responsible for maintaining accurate comprehensive patient treatment records in line with recognised professional standards of practice (i.e. Royal College of Podiatrists) and NMid policies. To record patient appointment outcomes on Rio within 24 hours.11. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.12. Where appropriate, to supervise and provide mentoring to other podiatrists and foot care assistants.13. To be responsible for the maintenance and security of stock in own work area. 14. To manage and develop in-house diabetic/high risk training events, and to participate in and attend staff and therapy team meetings.15. To refer patients on as necessary to other healthcare professionals to ensure appropriate care is provided and to follow Trust referral timelines.