Specialist Podiatrist

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

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.

If this sounds like your ideal role, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

  1. Be a specialist practitioner with a high degree of autonomy across a variety of settings.
  2. Prioritise and manage their own workload and when required offer clinical supervision to less experienced podiatrists and podiatry assistants.
  3. 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.
  4. Be provided with peer support, continued professional development and regular clinical supervision.
  5. Deliver educational packages to podiatry colleagues and the wider healthcare team.
  6. Uphold and demonstrate North Cumbria Integrated Care trust values in their day-to-day work

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • BSc Podiatric Medicine or equivalent qualification
  • Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
  • Local anaesthesia certificate

Desirable

  • Pharmacology certificate
  • Certificate in radiology (IRMER)

Knowledge & experience

Essential

  • 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

Desirable

  • Experience working in a specialist area

Personal Circumstances

Essential

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

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Demonstrate satisfactory health screening.
  • Acts in a way that supports equity and diversity (level 1).

Desirable

  • Documented evidence of Hep B vaccination

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential

  • 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.

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).

Closing Date: 2 August 2026

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