Podiatry Team Lead

**Podiatry Team Lead**:
**Band 7**:
**Main area**
- Podiatry
- **Grade**
- Band 7
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-1006**Site**
- To Be Confirmed
- **Town**
- To Be Confirmed
- **Salary**
- £40,057 - £45,839 Per Annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
The post holder will be part of the professional and operational management for the Podiatry Service with a countywide remit. As part of this role, they will be the authorised signatory and responsible for appropriate use of resources as well as be responsible for Quality and Governance, including Health & Safety and patient safety.

Responsibilities within the role include leading and managing the operational services of the Podiatry team under the guidance of the Podiatry Service Manager, considering local health needs and the policy priority of developing services closer to home. Being responsible for the delivery and maintenance of high quality evidence based care, focussed on meeting the needs and choices of patients, carers and families and to foster positive relationships with local commissioning boards and community and voluntary organisations.

The post holder will be create an effective, integrated multi-disciplinary approach within the locality teams, ensuring best practice guidelines and performance standards are met while meeting service targets. They will be an autonomous practitioner responsible for the assessment and treatment of patients with highly complex health and social care needs.

**Main duties of the job**:

- Supporting Podiatry Service Manager and Professional Lead
- Interpret and manage team data recording eg RIO for team resource management.
- Deputise in Service Manager absence for the authorisation and monitoring of effective ordering of stores, eg Integra/ Onpos.
- Undertake supervisions and appraisals for clinical staff.
- Undertake facilitation of countywide staff training days.
- Undertake triage of new patient referrals.
- Undertake return to work interviews following staff sickness absence
- Lead and participate in team meetings to discuss patient care developments and to disseminate information.
- Ensure clinical supervision, appraisal and mandatory training is an integral part of professional practice within the teams.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of