Apprenticeship training course

Podiatrist (integrated degree) (level 6)

Diagnose and treat foot, ankle and leg problems.

• Qualification level: 6 ; Equivalent to degree.
• Typical duration: 48 months
• Apprenticeship category: Health and science
• Maximum funding: £24,000 ; Maximum amount government will fund ; for apprenticeship training.
• Skills:
  Skills an apprentice will learn

  • Protect and keep people safe, applying current legislation to promote their rights, choices and wishes, treating them with dignity and respect, explain treatment options and risks/ benefit/ prognosis including no treatment to obtain and document informed consent for podiatry care
  • Work collaboratively with patients and others
  • Communicate effectively and appropriately, listening carefully to determine all the factors affecting the patients foot health in the context of their medical and social history and ability to self-care
  • Establish person-centred podiatry agreed treatment plans, encouraging informed decision-making encourage and enable appropriate self-care
  • Select and use appropriate assessment and treatment techniques safely, effectively and ethically e.g. interpreting medical history; recognising potential consequences of treatment; carrying out mechanical debridement to remove painful, dead, damaged, or infected tissue of intact and ulcerated skin; taping and similar adjunctive therapies; carrying out surgical procedures for skin and nail conditions; managing nail disorders, or prescribing foot orthoses
  • Observe, assess, diagnose, monitor and treat a patient’s lower limb, reviewing, updating and adapting or ceasing treatment as required
  • Use a systematic approach to formulate and test a preferred diagnosis
  • Work with a range of conditions encouraging mobility and independence
  • Perform treatments, including minor surgery under local anaesthetic
  • Manage medicines including accessing, supplying and administering prescription-only medicines use basic life support skills to deal safely with clinical emergencies
  • Make and receive referrals, including being responsible for the interpretation of clinical findings in relation to the lower limb and the decision for onward referral or discharge
  • Create, store, retrieve and update records in accordance with legislation, protocols and guidelines
  • Provide verbal and written health education on public health, foot health, mobility and the lower limb, including preventative, palliative or curative information, in a group or one to one setting
  • Assess, record, mitigate and review risks around podiatry services or treatments
  • Move and position people and podiatry equipment safely
  • Keep the environment clean and safe from hazards
  • Order, store, sterilise and dispose of equipment and other stock used in podiatry services
  • Incident reporting and follow on protocols when a safety risk has been breached
  • Work within the scope of practice for podiatrists, including being professionally accountable and adhering to clinical governance
  • Work as part of a multi-professional team, demonstrating leadership and management skills
  • Evaluate and measure your own practice and performance and that of those you work with, using clinical governance processes to improve podiatry practice and overall standards in healthcare
  • Demonstrate evidence-based practice

Full information on Podiatrist (integrated degree) (level 6) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

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