Essential skills:

• Ideally experience of podiatry wound care of the diabetic and non-diabetic foot.
• To provide specialist podiatry services.
• To assess, diagnose and manage:
  • the on-going primary care of patients with ‘at risk’ foot health status and treat wounds (deficiencies in circulatory and neurological supplies and reduced tissue viability);
  • patients with painful gait anomalies (through biomechanical assessment and the prescription/manufacture of appropriate orthoses),
  • and patients with onychocryptosis (through the use of local anaesthetics and surgery).
• To manage an identified caseload of patients and undertake all associated communication and liaison with other health care professionals.
• To provide safe and adequate record keeping within the EMIS – electronic patient record system

Desirable skills:

• Valid driving licence and using own car