Podiatrist

Communications • Work effectively as a member of a multi-professional team and liaise with other professionals and agencies to provide quality care across all care boundaries social services, hospital, care homes. • Communicate effectively with patients and carers so as to obtain clear diagnostic information where there may be difficulties due to hearing loss, anxiety or a language barrier. This is particularly important in assessing capacity to gain valid informed consent. • Deliver appropriate foot care advice to patients and their carers • Promote equality, diversity and rights. • To actively promote a healthy lifestyle to patients persuading and encouraging them to eat healthily, take up exercise and stop smoking • Maintain accurate contemporaneous treatment records of patients care. • Attend and actively contribute to department and multi-disciplinary meetings. If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16. Job description Job responsibilities Communications • Work effectively as a member of a multi-professional team and liaise with other professionals and agencies to provide quality care across all care boundaries social services, hospital, care homes. • Communicate effectively with patients and carers so as to obtain clear diagnostic information where there may be difficulties due to hearing loss, anxiety or a language barrier. This is particularly important in assessing capacity to gain valid informed consent. • Deliver appropriate foot care advice to patients and their carers • Promote equality, diversity and rights. • To actively promote a healthy lifestyle to patients persuading and encouraging them to eat healthily, take up exercise and stop smoking • Maintain accurate contemporaneous treatment records of patients care. • Attend and actively contribute to department and multi-disciplinary meetings. If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.