Senior Podiatrist | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Colchester; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A large NHS organization is seeking a qualified podiatrist to provide integrated care for patients in Colchester. You will support the development of staff while delivering specialized care in various podiatric activities. This role emphasizes patient independence and offers extensive training and development opportunities, alongside a generous benefits package including a pension scheme and flexible working options.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

Access to NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering care across various podiatry needs.
• Ability to support the development of staff including assistants and apprentices.
• Skills in acting as a care coordinator.

Responsibilities

• Carry out assessments and contribute to integrated care plans.
• Support patients with advice and community resource navigation.
• Develop and review specialist care programs.

Skills

Experience with NHS service caseload

Ability to develop care plans

Expertise in podiatric activities

Education

Relevant podiatric qualifications

Job description

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.
• 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.

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


This advert closes on Thursday 4 Sep 2025