Specialist Podiatrist

NHS

Carlisle

Hybrid

GBP 40,000 - 48,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

NHS Discounts

Salary Sacrifice schemes (lease cars,

Cycle to Work

Vivup counselling

Job summary

North Cumbria IntegratedCare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Specialist Podiatrist on a Band 6 level. The role involves triage, assessment, and delivering comprehensive podiatric care across multiple sites within North Cumbria.

The post supports education for staff and closer links with multidisciplinary teams, including diabetic foot services, with a focus on safe, high-quality patient care. The successful candidate will work autonomously, manage a varied caseload, and contribute to

Qualifications

HCPC registration is essential and maintained.
Experience with high-risk foot assessment and treatment.
Ability to work autonomously across multiple sites.

Responsibilities

Be a specialist practitioner with a high degree of autonomy.
Prioritise and manage your own workload and supervise others when required.
Triage, assess, diagnose and implement treatment plans for podiatric conditions.
Deliver educational packages to podiatry colleagues and the wider healthcare team.
Uphold NCIC values in day-to-day work.

Skills

Autonomy

Clinical supervision

Triage & assessment

Podiatry management

Patient education

Education

HCPC registration

Local anaesthesia certificate

IRMER radiology certificate

Job description

Go back North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Podiatrist

The closing date is 30 September 2026

Do you want to work in one of the nation's areas of outstanding natural beauty, delivering care with the scenic Lake District Fells as your back drop? Not only that, the North Cumbria Podiatry Department have been shortlisted for the CAHPO awards 2025 for digital innovation.

North Cumbria Podiatry team are looking to recruit a B6 podiatrist.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a high level of interpersonal and organisational skills, alongside a good sense of humour and team focused.

The Department has a good skill mix including advanced and specialist Podiatrists, Podiatry assistants and administrative staff. Currently we maintain high risk, biomechanics and nail surgery caseloads. As a specialist podiatrist you will triage and treat a variety of podiatric problems and provide foot health education to patients and other stakeholders.

Opportunities to develop skills and knowledge in specialist areas are available by our close links with the multi-disciplinary diabetic foot team and North Cumbria MSK service.

Main duties of the job

Be a specialist practitioner with a high degree of autonomy across a variety of settings.
Prioritise and manage their own workload and when required offer clinical supervision to less experienced podiatrists and podiatry assistants.
Be expected to triage, assess, diagnosis and implement individual treatment plans for a variety of conditions including, long term conditions, neurological conditions, vascular problems, wound management/sharp debridement, biomechanical assessment, manufacture of orthoses and nail surgery. The post holder will also be expected to discharge following a set criteria.
Be provided with peer support, continued professional development and regular clinical supervision.
Deliver educational packages to podiatry colleagues and the wider healthcare team.
Uphold and demonstrate North Cumbria Integrated Care trust values in their day-to-day work

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

Being a clinically led organisation

Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust

A positive patient experience every time

A great place to work

Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit theUK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

AHP - Return to Practice Job Advert information.This role may be suitable for individuals Returning to Practice. Please speak to the recruiting manager for further information.

Registered Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles or changing clinical environments, may access an agreed preceptorship period.

Disclosure and Barring Service:

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as followsif applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £5.90 = £27.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £5.90 = £55.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

NHS Discounts*

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*

Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
Local anaesthesia certificate
Certificate in radiology (IRMER)

Knowledge & experience

Previous experience working in the NHS
Knowledge and experience in the assessment, diagnosis and management of high-risk foot
Knowledge of UK NHS Podiatry services
Understanding of Primary care
Understanding of relevant NHS Policies
Experience working in a specialist area

Personal Circumstances

The ability to work at and travel to various sites throughout North Cumbria.

Other Requirements

Demonstrate satisfactory health screening.
Acts in a way that supports equity and diversity (level 1).
Documented evidence of Hep B vaccination

Skills and Aptitudes

Ability to assess new patients and provide appropriate treatment based on individual need of patients and care planning.
Ability to manage and critically evaluate caseload.
Ability to manage own time, prioritise tasks, work independently and under own initiative and multi-task.
To have good organisational and timekeeping skills.
To have a highly developed level of manual dexterity for the use of surgical instruments, including scalpels and needles.
To be able to work in restricted positions, particularly when carrying out domiciliary visits to accommodate patient needs.
Ability to carry out, analyse and interpret results of various specialist assessments within scope of practice.
Able to adapt to change and resolve problems.
Work unsupervised
High levels of concentration during treatment and to be able to deal with unexpected situations (e.g. emergencies).
Exercise individual responsibility and judgement.
Able to remain calm while under pressure.
Communicate effectively with colleagues, other health care professional's carers and patients.
Receives information concerning patients/clients history, sensitive issues, and some patients with communication difficulties: requires persuasive, reassurance skills.
Work as a member of a team.
Undertake clinical audits, as necessary to own work/ regularly undertake R&D trials/ clinical trials.
Performance manage staff when indicated.
Ability to supervise less experienced members of the podiatry team.