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Podiatry Team Lead
The closing date is 04 June 2026
Step into a leadership role where your clinical expertise and people skills shape the future of our podiatry service. You'll guide a motivated team, support complex caseload decision-making and help drive service development that genuinely improves patient outcomes. This role calls for someone who can balance advanced clinical practice with confident leadership, using sound judgement to prioritise care, support colleagues and maintain high professional standards. You'll play a key part in coordinating pathways, ensuring safe, effective practice and fostering a culture where staff feel supported to grow. If you're ready to influence how podiatry is delivered across our community and want to work in a service that values innovation, collaboration and compassionate care, this is your next step.
Main duties of the job
In this leadership role, you'll take responsibility for coordinating a high‑quality podiatry service, ensuring patients with a wide range of foot‑health needs receive safe, effective and timely care. You'll manage a complex clinical caseload, providing advanced assessment, treatment planning and expert decision‑making, while supporting colleagues with guidance on challenging presentations. A key part of your work will be leading and developing the team, offering clinical supervision, shaping professional standards and creating a positive environment where staff feel supported to grow and deliver their best work. You'll oversee day‑to‑day service activity, helping to prioritise workload, allocate resources and maintain smooth patient pathways. You'll also contribute to service development by using data, feedback and clinical insight to identify opportunities for improvement and implement changes that enhance patient experience. Strong communication, leadership confidence and the ability to motivate others are essential, as you'll work closely with multidisciplinary partners, community teams and patients to ensure a seamless, person‑centred approach to care.
About us
Flexible working will be considered for all roles.
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.
Bringing together community and out‑of‑hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.
Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM).
They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.
Our mission
We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other
Our vision
We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn
Our values
* Kind: We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone
* Open: We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
* Fair: We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
* One team: We work well together and with our communities
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
* Utilising highly specialised knowledge the post holder will take the team lead role in the provision of Podiatry services at Warrington
* The post holder will have managerial responsibility for the Podiatry team providing articulate, motivational leadership to facilitate development of the team and service.
* To create an environment conducive to learning within the Podiatry Team and act as a coach, mentor and assessor to all team members and as a health educator to the wider community in opportunistic and planned situations.
* Lead and support others to promote professional and service development.
* To provide expert advice, highly specialised care and support to podiatry patients and their carers, ensuring an equitable and accessible service provision.
* Plan and develop specialised, evidence based service delivery which is linked to both local and national targets.
* Utilise specialist clinical skills to assess, plan and deliver High Risk podiatry interventions to this specialised cohort of patients.
* To ensure delivery of skilled podiatric care through appropriate delegation of duties to members of the podiatry team
* To ensure that the Podiatry Team works collaboratively and co-operatively with clinical colleagues
* To undertake/participate in research and lead clinical audit within own service specialism.
* Use highly specialised knowledge to assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care for high risk podiatry patients in acute and community settings
* To work autonomously and manage own specialist defined patient caseload
* Provide clinical supervision and mentorship for new staff
* Take a lead in a specific area of service delivery and take responsibility for related projects and implementing change
* Demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge and highly specialist skills within practice
* Demonstrate sound communication skills to facilitate the provision of sensitive and complex information to patients and relatives regarding their clinical condition.
* To provide clinical leadership to the Warrington Podiatry Team
* To ensure effective deployment of staff and delegation of workload to the Warrington Podiatry team and supervision of the team.
* To facilitate the delivery of evidence‑based practice to the client group by auditing activity and performance in respect of agreed roles and responsibilities.
* To act instrumentally in the selection, interviewing and recruitment of various grades of staff to the Podiatry service.
* To facilitate/undertake preceptor and mentor programmes for all new members of the Podiatry Team.
* To participate in staff personal development review process as appraiser and appraisee.
* To ensure that Trust Policies are implemented within the team and are adhered to by all team members
* Be responsible for a defined group of podiatry clients developing specialised care plans based upon individual assessment of patients clinical need.
* Contribute to the development, writing and implementation of Trust wide protocols for areas of podiatry and Diabetes care.
* To provide mentorship and supervision to junior staff, colleagues and students
* Demonstrate effective time management to promote efficient use of time and resources
* To monitor service delivery via defined and agreed tools e.g. KPIs and performance data and highlight resources required to respond to the changing needs of the service
* To ensure that appropriate management information is available to the Clinical Manager
* To co‑ordinate, record and monitor study/sick/annual leave
* To manage sickness and absence in accordance with Trust Policy
* To act as authorised signatory for extra duty payments, bank staff hours and mileage.
* To ensure that the staff are deployed in accordance with need and with consideration to budgetary requirements
* To be responsible for ensuring the repair and maintenance of equipment
* To ensure administrative tasks are implemented within delegated time scales.
* To ensure that staff are compliant in recording patient activity onto the computer system.
* To implement change and use management skills to initiate improvements in practice
* To inspire the team with clearly articulated values and vision for the future by demonstrating motivational and influential behaviour
Clinical
* Manage own case load working autonomously and unsupervised utilising highly specialised clinical skills including clinical assessment of the patient.
* To deliver High risk podiatry led clinics or home visits where appropriate. To be responsible for assessing the needs of patients and planning, implementing and evaluating specialised individual plans of care
- To make recommendations of appropriate medical treatment within trust approved guidelines based upon the results of investigations and patient need.
* To coordinate the delivery of High risk podiatric care plans
* To devise, plan and implement health education programmes
To maintain contemporaneous, accurate and legible documentation within the service and patient records
Research
* To audit and research areas of diabetes service in both primary and secondary care as and when required for both Care pathway work and Trust agendas.
Please find attached Full Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Experience
* Post graduate clinical experience in advanced Diabetic foot care
* Primary Care Diabetes Diploma or equivalent experience
Relationships
* If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.
Skills and Knowledge
* Sound practical and theoretical knowledge of management of the high-risk and diabetic foot.
* Advanced wound management skills
* Sound knowledge of Diabetes NSF and Regional Foot care pathways
* Audit experience and analysis.
* Exemplary practical and theoretical knowledge of management of the high-risk and diabetic foot.
* Excellent knowledge of Diabetes NSF and Regional Foot care pathways
Qualifications
* Diploma/Degree in Podiatric Medicine
* Certificate in L.A.
* Masters Degree or equivalent level of CPD/ experience, or willingness to undertake
Job Specific Requirements
* The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs
* Ability to travel across the Trust and to comply with the travel requirements of the post.
Sponsorship
* Please confirm your Right to Work status (share‑codes will be checked where applicable).
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.
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