Highly Specialist Podiatrist

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Newham’s Podiatry Service are recruiting for Band 7 podiatrists, full-time (Monday to Friday 9-5) or part-time. Be part of this exciting development in a busy, progressive, and motivated team whose patients reflect the diversity of communities and their health needs in Newham.

We are calling on enthusiastic Podiatrists who are:

seeking a role as a Highly Specialist Podiatrist where you can use and develop your skills and knowledge across the full range of our services.

self-motivated and motivated by others to provide excellent patient-centred care.

looking for an opportunity to further develop your career and be an active team member.

We have a fruitful and strong culture of collaborative working with Vascular services, GPs, Diabetologists, District Nursing and Tissue Viability Services, and other Therapy services.

Main duties of the job

You will work in outpatient High Risk Foot clinics as part of the Service Level Agreement with Barts Health as well as rotations in Nail Surgery, MSK and Community Outpatient clinics including domiciliary provision.

You will need to be able to assess, create appropriate treatment plans and escalate to the appropriate services where clinically indicated.

You will need excellent skills in debridement and wound management.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

  • BSc Degree In Podiatric Medicine
  • Registration with the Health Professions Council
  • Certificate in local anaesthesia
  • Evidence of postgraduate training
  • Diabetes Module via RCoP or equivalent qualification
  • Up-do date knowledge of clinical issues and recent developments in the profession
  • Knowledge of RCoP code of conduct
  • Knowledge of audit and risk assessment

Experience

Essential

  • Minimum of 3 year post graduate working with a minimum of 2 years at Band 6 or equivalent within the NHS.
  • Experience of working with a wide range of patient and disease / pathology types including the at-risk and high-risk foot 4.
  • Experience of delivering advanced care in of the diabetic foot
  • Experience of delivering service development projects
  • Experience of implementing new initiatives
  • Experience of operational management including waiting list management, rostering, arranging meetings, training / CPD sessions.
  • Experience of engaging patient / public in service development / improvement

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Effective communication skills- oral, listening and written- to encourage and enable patients and carers to adhere to their treatment plans
  • Good interpersonal skills to liaise with other disciplines, and staff within the team
  • Excellent psychomotor skills
  • Ability to undertake vascular assessment including ABPI and interpret the results
  • Ability to identify appropriate investigations for patients and to interpret the results e.g. x-rays
  • Organisational and planning skills to manage your own work time and plan and develop the work and training of others Presentation skills to deliver Service Promotion, Health Promotion & Education
  • Ability to identify and solve problems
  • Experience of collecting, collating and reporting on service activity data

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: 17 August 2026

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