Diabetic Specialist Podiatrist with managerial responsibility

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Enfield; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a senior podiatry leader to develop and deliver a high quality diabetic foot and wound care service within the community. You will work with senior B7 leads to embed excellent care and provide managerial support to the Head of Podiatry.

You will take responsibility for podiatric assessment, treatment planning, triage referrals, and line management duties, including recruitment and service delivery reviews.

Qualifications

• Senior podiatry clinician with leadership experience.
• Ability to develop and evaluate care plans for high‑risk foot pathologies.
• Experience in audit/research to improve service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead podiatry service for diabetic foot and wound care.
• Triage referrals, monitor waiting lists, and prioritise care.
• Line management duties: recruitment, rosters, and appraisals.
• Deliver education to patients and supervise junior staff.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Podiatry expertise

Multidisciplinary working

Education/training

Education

Podiatry degree

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to provide clinical expertise in the treatment of diabetic foot and other high risk foot pathologies and in the education and supervision of less experienced members of the Podiatry team. To develop and deliver a high quality seamless diabetic and wound care foot service within the community, working with the other senior B7 leads to embed excellent care and to provide managerial support to the Head of Podiatry. The department is part of North Mid in the Community serving the borough of Enfield and as part of North Central London health family it has close working ties with the diabetic MDTs at North Middlesex University Hospital and the Royal Free Hospitals Pond Street and Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals.

To be responsible for the podiatric assessment, diagnosis, delivery, and evaluation of care plans using a variety of appropriate treatment methods for high risk and at-risk patient categories. Working either uni-professionally or within a multidisciplinary team.

To hold responsibility for own caseload working as an autonomous clinical expert within diabetes/other high risk foot pathologies.

Triage referrals as required monitoring waiting lists, prioritising and redirecting patients according to medical and podiatric need.

To undertake evidence-based audit and or project/research to further own and team’s clinical practice, and where appropriate make recommendations to the manager to improve service delivery for diabetic/high risk patients.

To ensure effective communication of complex and highly sensitive and emotional information to patients, this requires excellent interpersonal and counselling skills.

To deliver diabetic health education to users.

To take the lead on wound care within the department.

To undertake line management duties such as recruitment, health roster, service delivery reviews to support the head of Podiatry, acting in some circumstances as deputy.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other CIC's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an CIC infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: DAVIES, Anne Marie Job title: Head of Podiatry Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02087023172