Senior Podiatrist

Candino CA; Colchester; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare service in North East Essex as a Senior Podiatrist, where you'll provide vital care through clinic and home visits for a diverse patient population. You'll be integral in developing care plans, supporting the training of junior staff, and ensuring optimal patient outcomes across various podiatric pathologies. This role offers opportunities for continuous professional development and is at the heart of community healthcare.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Experience relevant to podiatry care group.
• Ongoing CPD.
• Professional knowledge to degree level.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and develop integrated care plans.
• Implement specialist aspects of care and review plans.
• Support patients with self-management advice.

Skills

Assessment skills

Patient support

Communication

Education

Registered Podiatrist

Job description

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Job Summary

The podiatry service in North East Essex provides clinic and home visits to patients who NHS podiatry needs.

Job Summary

The podiatry service in North East Essex provides clinic and home visits to patients who NHS podiatry needs.

This role is part of the integrated podiatry service, which provides care for all ages and variety of pathologies, including nail surgery; wound care; biomechanics; foot protection service and MDT foot clinic for diabetic patients.

The post holder will be required to participate in the full breath of the service.

You should have experience with an NHS service caseload through which you can evidence related the above areas.

We will consider applicants wishing to be considered for a band 5 to 6 development role and are able to offer preceptorship.

The service has committed to supporting the workforce of the future and as such you will support the development of staff across a range of points in their career, from assistant staff working towards the RCoP qualifications, to Apprentice podiatrists (pre-reg) and post registration staff through preceptorship and into expert practice.

Main duties of the job

• Act as a specialist resource, carrying out assessments, and contributing to the development and delivery of integrated care plan.
• Develop programmes of specialist podiatric activities, weighing options and delegating aspects of care as appropriate
• Implement specialist aspects of the care plan, potentially acting as care coordinator and reviewing the plan on behalf of the integrated team.
• Support patients with advice, information, persuasion and direction to community resources to encourage self-management and ongoing independence.
• Provide support, training and advice to patients, parents and carers.
  
  

About Us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Details

Date posted

18 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum Pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

432-HR371-25

Job locations

659 The Crescent

Colchester Business Park

Colchester

CO4 9YQ

Job Description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Job Description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Proven experience relevant to the care group
• Professional knowledge and skills acquired through a combination of formal training, short courses and experience to degree level of equivalent
• Relevant post qualification training through short courses and/or further study and experience for example biomechanics, diabetes or paediatrics, working towards post graduate level of study.
• Evidence of on-going CPD
• Specialist skills and techniques relevant to care group
  
  

Desirable

• Competencies relevant to specialism
• Experience of managing the work of others
• Recognised registered qualification and further courses and experience relevant to role
  
  

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Podiatrist with HCPC with POM-A annotation
  
  

Desirable

• Registered member of the Royal college of Podiatry
  
  

Knowledge

Essential

• Good theoretical and practical knowledge of a broad range of assessments including specialist relevant to the specialist care group and the relative benefits of each
• Good knowledge of a range of specialist therapeutic interventions relevant to the care group including the relative benefits of each and the comparative outcomes
• Awareness of national guidance relevant to own specialities, including, consent issues, and other legal frameworks relating to care group
• Understanding of the roles of other professionals
• Knowledge of standards of record keeping
• Awareness of strategic direction of ESNEFT
• Knowledge of the current evidence based practice
  
  

Person Specification

Essential

• Good theoretical and practical knowledge of a broad range of assessments including specialist relevant to the specialist care group and the relative benefits of each
• Good knowledge of a range of specialist therapeutic interventions relevant to the care group including the relative benefits of each and the comparative outcomes
• Awareness of national guidance relevant to own specialities, including, consent issues, and other legal frameworks relating to care group
• Understanding of the roles of other professionals
• Knowledge of standards of record keeping
• Awareness of strategic direction of ESNEFT
• Knowledge of the current evidence based practice
  
  

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

659 The Crescent

Colchester Business Park

Colchester

CO4 9YQ

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

659 The Crescent

Colchester Business Park

Colchester

CO4 9YQ

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals

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