Job Description

Our vision is to be the best place for healthcare anywhere and the best place to work in healthcare.

We believe that every life deserves world class healthcare.

What are we looking for?

Cleveland Clinic London is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Bank Podiatrist to join our dedicated Bank Team, offering a competitive rate of pay and the opportunity to work within a world-class clinical environment.

The Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute is a key service within Cleveland Clinic London, providing specialist care to a diverse patient population. In this role, you will deliver high-quality podiatry services across the hospital, including the assessment and management of inpatient referrals, delivery of outpatient podiatry clinics, and contribution to multidisciplinary services with integrated podiatry support - particularly within the diabetic foot service.

This is an excellent opportunity to work collaboratively with leading multidisciplinary teams and play a vital role in delivering exceptional patient care and outcomes.

We are looking for a clinician available to work one day per week on Wednesdays, supporting both inpatient and outpatient services. Flexible working hours can be considered, with shifts available either 9:00am–5:00pm or 8:00am–8:00pm depending on availability and service needs.

Job responsibilities:

• Provides a high quality of service to patients requiring diagnosis and management, including inpatients and outpatients.
• Undertakes comprehensive specialist assessment of patients using investigative and analytical skills including vascular assessment, neurological assessment, assessment of infection status, laboratory investigations, and wound classification.
• Formulates an individual management and/or treatment programme using clinical reasoning and a wide range of treatment skills and options, considering wound status, neuropathy, peripheral arterial disease, infection, diabetes control, off-loading, and mobility.
• Identifies patients needing escalation of care, including immediate hospital admission.
• Identifies patients with active infection and arranges immediate empirical antibiotic therapy until microbiological investigation results are available.
• Ensures patients are provided with all the necessary information on treatment options and implications, enabling the development of a mutually agreed treatment plan.
• Liaises internally and internationally with medical and non-medical staff within Cleveland Clinic to ensure patients receive the highest quality care in line with current best practice guidelines.
• Contributes and regularly engages with a wider multidisciplinary team to provide high quality care for patients.

What we need from you?

• Diploma / degree in Podiatry.
• Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (UK).
• Evidence of CPD, maintained in a portfolio showing CPD events/activity relevant to the clinical specialty.
• Diabetes related further study at MSc level (Desirable).
• Experience of advanced wound care techniques and pressure relieving devices.
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary diabetes foot service.
• Involvement in audit, research and understanding quality issues.
• Experience of supervising clinical staff.
• Experience of advanced wound care techniques and pressure relieving devices.
• Ability to carry out management/treatment programmes using clinical reasoning, problem solving, sound judgement and wide knowledge of treatment options.

What can we offer you?

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest profits back into our organisation. This means we can offer tailored support and development for caregivers, alongside benefits such as:

• Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension - Cleveland Clinic contributes 10% through Salary Exchange
• Priority shifts over agency workers
• On-site discounted gym facilities
• Weekly pay
• Victoria card giving you discounts to local venues and restaurants.

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

If you would like to know more, please email bankrecruitment@ccf.org.

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Due to the volume of applications we are not always able to provide individual feedback.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”

As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.