Podiatrist Specialising in Therapeutic Footwear

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Kettering; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Kettering is seeking a motivated Specialist Podiatrist specialising in Therapeutic Footwear. The successful applicant will manage a caseload of diabetic patients and work collaboratively with a dynamic team to deliver exceptional patient care. Essential qualifications include HPC registration and expertise in the musculoskeletal field. This role offers opportunities for personal development and contributing to quality patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Registered Podiatrist with HCP.
• Clinical expert in musculoskeletal field with postgraduate education.
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Manage ongoing care of a caseload of diabetic patients.
• Prescribe therapeutic stock and modified stock footwear.
• Educate and supervise staff related to therapeutic footwear.

Skills

Clinical practice with complex/high-risk patient groups

Problem solving within footwear provision

Education

Health Profession Council registration

Postgraduate development

Postgraduate experience/clinical expert in musculoskeletal field

Masters level education

Leadership training

Job description

Podiatrist Specialising in Therapeutic Footwear

The closing date is 26 November 2025

The Diabetic & High-Risk Foot Service is seeking a motivated Specialist Podiatrist specialising in Therapeutic footwear who is looking for a unique opportunity.

The successful applicant will join our already long-established therapeutic footwear team, specialising in a complex caseload of diabetes. The post involves working alongside a dynamic team of Diabetes Specialist Podiatrists and Footwear Specialists to provide optimum care and play an essential role in a multi‑disciplinary approach to patient treatment plans. The post holder will be instrumental in ensuring that our forward‑thinking footwear team continues to deliver a high‑quality clinical therapeutic footwear service and excellent patient outcomes. This is a countywide post based in Northamptonshire.

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust strives to continually innovate and make a positive difference to our community and those working for and with our Trust. We share a collective vision to provide outstanding, compassionate care to the people of Northamptonshire and surrounding areas.

Main duties of the job

Assess and manage ongoing care of an agreed caseload of patients within the specialist area. In particular, care will be provided to patients with:

• Late/end‑stage complications arising from diabetic foot disease and inflammatory arthropathies resulting in complex deformities requiring therapeutic footwear provision.
• Circulatory and neurological deficits and reduced tissue viability (e.g. pressure ulcers), requiring specialist off loading and footwear.
• Complex medical conditions (e.g. peripheral vascular disease) that significantly impact foot pathology.

The post holder will be responsible for a defined caseload, primarily consisting of patients with diabetes and associated complications. They will be expected to communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals and the diabetes multi‑disciplinary team.

Prescribe therapeutic stock and modified stock footwear and be actively involved in the provision of made‑to‑measure footwear.

To participate in the education, training and supervision of other staff in association with therapeutic footwear.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. Many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

• Health Profession Council registered Podiatrist
• Evidence of appropriate specialist postgraduate development
• Postgraduate experience/clinical expert in the musculoskeletal field including postgraduate education to Masters level
• Understand the impact of clinical targets and development of local services
• Leadership training

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrate high level of clinical practice working with complex/high‑risk patient groups
• Proven problem solver within footwear provision

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.

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust