This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, dynamic community podiatry team delivering high-quality care across West Essex.
We are seeking an experienced, motivated and forward‑thinking Podiatrist (band 6 career progression considered) with expertise in wound care and some knowledge of MSK podiatry to join our friendly and progressive service. You will manage a high‑risk caseload across a range of community and clinical settings, providing assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
The role includes work within specialist clinics including Diabetes, Wound Care, Nail Surgery and Musculoskeletal Podiatry, alongside close working with Podiatric Surgery, Tissue Viability, Patient Appliances and the Multidisciplinary Diabetic Foot Team at Princess Alexandra Hospital.
You will be required to work both independently and as part of a team, demonstrating strong clinical decision‑making, communication and organisational skills. A flexible approach is essential to meet service needs.
You’ll be joining a service where staff are valued and well supported, with real opportunities to influence service delivery and your ongoing professional development.
ROLE SUMMARY
As an advanced specialist podiatrist you will act as an autonomous practitioner providing assessment, diagnosis and treatment within specialist clinics including Diabetes, Wound Care, Nail Surgery and MSK Podiatry, working closely with multidisciplinary teams, including Podiatric Surgery, Tissue Viability, Patient Appliances and the Multidisciplinary Diabetic Foot Team at Princess Alexandra Hospital.
You will demonstrate strong clinical, communication and organisational skills, and be able to work both independently and as part of a team. Flexibility is essential to meet service needs.
To provide an experienced advanced resource and leadership to the Podiatry team taking a developmental and operational lead as required.
Benefits
* 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service
* Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay
* Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits
* £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
* Season ticket loans are interest‑free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus
Work that wraps around your needs
* Flexible working: available from day one for most roles
* Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Be part of a self‑motivated multi‑disciplinary team, communicating within the team and advising patients, who may have barriers to understanding.
2. Attend times and places stated on the rota as determined by the team lead.
3. Support the team lead and service manager, deputise when required in the daily operational management, assist with the team rota, prioritise patients during staff sickness and support the administrative team.
4. Work in community and hospital settings as an independent autonomous professional, manage the departmental caseload with judgement in initiation and management of change, and seek professional support when necessary.
5. Use advanced knowledge to assess and treat complex cases holistically, motivate others, and serve as a source of advice for specialist areas.
6. Responsible individually for assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of podiatric care for a wide variety of high‑risk patients, with expertise in diabetes, wound care, MSK podiatry and nail surgery.
7. Conduct patient consultations and treatment including MSK/vascular examinations, exercises, orthoses prescription, diagnostic imaging and offer injection therapy and extracorporeal shockwave therapy.
8. Identify when patients require interventions from other professionals and/or departmental specialists, following agreed referral pathways and eligibility criteria.
9. Provide foot health advice and education to patients, relatives/carers and other healthcare professionals.
10. Provide education to other podiatrists and healthcare professionals within the trust and local region.
11. Maintain, secure and control stock, clean and maintain all podiatry equipment.
12. Participate in departmental nail surgery as required.
13. Perform diabetic and high‑risk assessment review clinics, including Doppler evaluation and sensory/motor assessment to categorize high‑risk patients.
14. Participate in implementing and suggesting changes to departmental policies, procedures and protocols.
15. Follow departmental policies and procedures, using clinical judgement within professional boundaries.
16. Move and handle patients who may be immobile, wheelchair or bed bound, often in confined spaces.
17. Arrange, depending on professional judgement and clinic need, appropriate follow‑up appointments.
18. Demonstrate manual dexterity and coordination for sharp scalpel techniques in debriding lesions involving tendon, bone or joint.
19. Be cognisant of relevant anatomy and skilled when injecting parenteral drugs.
20. Supervise podiatry assistants and students, providing formal training, clinical reasoning sessions and direct observation.
21. Act as duty podiatrist as required, managing daily triage of referrals, patient enquiries, cascading information, and handling local complaints.
22. Lead advanced work, taking referrals of highly complex nature beyond scope of less advanced colleagues, and advise specialist areas.
23. Apply sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management.
24. Act professionally in customer care and contribute to investigations/responses to complaints in line with trust policy.
25. Decide priorities for own work area, balancing patient and professional demands, maintaining service focus.
26. Adapt to regular interruptions from phone calls and junior staff requiring advice on patient care.
27. Work on own initiative, assertive and proactive in service developments.
28. Contribute to longer‑term service planning to maintain quality and identify cost improvement opportunities.
Health & Safety
1. Report any accidents, complaints, defects in equipment, near misses and untoward incidents following the Trust procedure.
2. Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation at all times, including COSHH, risk assessment and infection control.
3. Undertake general workplace risk assessments and assist team lead with health and safety inspections.
4. Attend all mandatory training sessions as required.
Research and Development
1. Participate in audit activities and development of outcomes, implement local and national audits, and present findings.
2. Keep up to date with evidence‑based research and apply findings to practice.
3. Be involved in research and development, including new alternative ways of working in specialised areas.
4. Participate in departmental clinic governance initiatives, developing and implementing standards, guidelines, policies and protocols.
Professional Development
1. Maintain registration with the HPC.
2. Work within HPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics and EPUT Policies and Procedures.
3. Participate actively in continuing professional development.
4. Incorporate new trends and developments within specialities into practice.
5. Lead in‑service training programmes, attend and contribute at staff meetings, training sessions, courses and other CPD activities, undertaking reflective practice.
6. Develop new skills and maintain and update existing skills.
7. Participate in individual performance review/appraisal.
8. Ensure high‑quality delivery of podiatry service and fulfil CPD requirements identified through appraisal process, with expected rotation in specialist areas.
9. Supervise assistant and technical grades, train students and basic grade podiatrists, acting as mentor when appropriate.
10. Provide clinical professional supervision to junior team members through formal training, clinical reasoning sessions and direct observation.
11. Assist in organising student placements and sign‑off competencies in nail surgery for students.
Communication and Working Relationships
1. Maintain accurate records of all patient consultations and related work carried out at each clinical session, including audit and other data collection.
2. Communicate complex information with patients, colleagues, administrative staff and other healthcare professionals, using verbal and non‑verbal communication tools.
3. Demonstrate highly developed skills of reasoning and persuasion when communicating with patients, relatives, carers, particularly when there are barriers to understanding.
4. Provide specialised advice to community‑based podiatry colleagues and other members of the MDT working within other clinical areas and primary care.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 May 2026.
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