Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is an Outstanding Hospital according to CQC. The staff think so too with Kingston Hospital scoring in the top 20% of all acute Trusts in the country for 16 key areas and the third best score in London for overall staff engagement.
So would you like to be part of this workforce in leafy suburbia?
This is an exciting opportunity to join a progressive innovative Diabetes and Endocrinology team.
We are looking for a dynamic, industrious and flexible individual to join a progressive and forward-thinking team that shares a great passion and vision in improving care for patient with diabetes in Kingston. The successful applicant will be linked with the South West London Multidisciplinary Diabetes Foot Team as part of our Hub and spoke Model.
Post holders will be based within the Diabetes unit at Kingston hospital and will provide both inpatient and outpatient services including the MDfT service.
We want to hear from you if you are a Band 6 or Band 7 level podiatrist, who is keen to provide highly specialist podiatry treatment to people with active foot disease within the hospital setting.
The successful individuals will be joining a progressive and forward thinking team who share a great passion and vision in improving patient care for patients with limb threatening conditions within the Kingston Hospital.
The role will include excellent opportunities to work autonomously as well as across teams and disciplines to provide a high impact into the outcomes of the Limb threatened foot. Individuals will have the opportunity to develop sub-speciality interests including renal dialysis, inpatient care, education, research, and training.
To provide specialist foot care for patient with complex high risk foot problems. This includes diabetes patients with acute and chronic foot wounds, patients with neuropathic and vascular complications, patient with foot complications who are immunosuppressed and patients who have poor tissue viability.
The post holder will be clinically responsible for treatment of the high risk caseload working autonomously as well as work as part of the multidisciplinary team. The post requires accepting emergency referrals from GPs, community podiatrists, and other health professionals and will provide responsive specialist care.
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust has four key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:
Compassionate - We treat everyone with kindness, understanding and empathy
Inclusive - We are respectful, fair and open, valuing everyone’s unique contribution
Collaborative - We work together across our teams and with our partners and are helpful, positive and supportive
Inspiring - We strive for the best for patients, communities, staff and partners and are always learning and improving
The successful applicants will form a Multidisciplinary Foot team and be part of the South West London Transformation program for the Diabetic Foot. The MDfT will be part of the SW London Diabetes Foot Network which brings together both multidisciplinary foot teams across SW London to share learning and promote best practice in the management of the threatened Limb.
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Closing date
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Shortlisting
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Application feedback
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Safeguarding and DBS Checks
We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. For roles with direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All staff are expected to understand and uphold their safeguarding responsibilities as part of their role.
