Band 5 Podiatrist- £1000 Welcome Bonus

NHS; Farnham; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Band 5 Community Podiatrist, where you will provide specialist care across multiple locations. This role offers exciting opportunities for professional growth through rotations in MSK and nail surgery. You will be part of a collaborative team focused on delivering high-quality podiatry care, ensuring patients receive the best treatment possible. With a commitment to your development, you will enjoy dedicated training days and access to a variety of resources to enhance your skills. If you are passionate about transforming health and care in the community, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

£1,000 Welcome Bonus

Free tea and coffee

Discounts through My Reward Hub

Access to earned wages

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Access to eLearning and CPD opportunities

Innovation funding for ideas

Commitment to high clinical standards

Qualifications

• Degree in Podiatry is essential for this role.
• Strong communication skills are required for effective patient interaction.

Responsibilities

• Manage wound and ulcer care for patients with complex conditions.
• Lead new patient clinics and high-risk foot clinics.

Skills

Wound and ulcer care management

Communication skills

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Patient assessment

Motivation and persuasion

Education

Degree in Podiatry

Job description

We are looking for a dedicated and professional Band 5 Community Podiatrist to join our supportive team, providing specialist care across five clinic locations in Farnham, Surrey, North East Hampshire, and Surrey Heath, as well as in patients' homes.

This role offers rotations through MSK and nail surgery, allowing you to develop specialist skills while working within a multidisciplinary team that includes vascular, orthopaedics, and community nursing. We prioritise professional growth with two dedicated training days per year, along with statutory and mandatory training to keep your knowledge up to date. Regular team meetings ensure strong collaboration and support.

This is a full-time role (Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM), but we are open to discussing part-time opportunities. If you're passionate about delivering high-quality podiatry care and making a difference in the community, we'd love to hear from you!

This role is offering a £1,000 Welcome Bonus!

Main duties of the job

In this role, you'll play a vital part in managing wound and ulcer care for patients with complex systemic conditions, including diabetes, vascular disease, and systemic inflammatory disorders, as well as those with multiple comorbidities. You'll also take the lead in new patient clinics, nail surgery assessment clinics, high-risk foot clinics, and basic MSK assessments.

As part of a collaborative and supportive team, you'll have the chance to develop strong professional links across key care pathways, including multidisciplinary teams, vascular specialists, orthopaedics, and community nursing.

Clear and effective communication is key in this role. You'll need to convey information in an understandable way to patients, ensuring they feel informed and involved in their treatment. Using a range of communication techniques including motivation, persuasion, and negotiation, you'll encourage patient cooperation to achieve the best possible clinical outcomes.

Additionally, you'll have the exciting opportunity to take part in a variety of specialist clinical rotations, gaining valuable experience while providing expert care to both adults and children.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

Job responsibilities

As a Band 5 Community Podiatrist, you'll be part of our valued team working across Farnham, North East Hampshire and Surrey Heath.

You will feel valued as a Podiatrist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £29,970-£36,483 Band 5 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions, plus £1,000 Welcome Bonus.
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.