Senior Podiatrist

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

Job summary

An exciting opportunity arises for a Senior Podiatrist within East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. This role involves providing specialized podiatric care to diverse patient groups, supporting staff development, and promoting patient independence. The ideal candidate will be a registered Podiatrist with experience in the NHS, ready to make a positive impact in our integrated service that prioritizes patient care and staff support.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

Access to NHS discounts

Flexible working options

Health and Wellbeing program

Qualifications

• Proven experience in NHS podiatry services.
• Registered with HCPC and a member of the Royal College of Podiatry.
• Experience in biomechanics, diabetes, or paediatrics.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out assessments and developing integrated care plans.
• Supporting patient self-management and independence.
• Training and advising patients and their families.

Skills

Assessment

Specialist Care

Patient Advice

Education

Registered Podiatrist with HCPC

Degree Level Training

Post Qualification Training

Job description

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Podiatrist

The closing date is 27 June 2025

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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Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Experience

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

Qualifications

• Registered Podiatrist with HCPC with POM-A annotation
• Registered member of the Royal college of Podiatry

Knowledge

• 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.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearPer annum Pro rata