Job summary
- Main area
- Podiatry
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 196-LIS9539
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Guys & St. Thomas Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 p.a. inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Podiatrist - Acute Specialist
Band 6
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are looking for Band 6 Podiatrists to join our growing dynamic team at Guys & St.Thomas' Hospital. These posts are hospital based within the central London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark.
The post will involve wound care management and 2 days of MSK rotating quarterly with other staff. The suitable candidate should be self-motivated and have a broad range of post-graduate clinical experience.
Patient care takes place in both out and in-patient setting. You may also be required to occasionally cover our satellite clinic.
You will be working within a team and must have good communication skills.
There will be supervision and mentoring from colleagues for continual CPD. In addition regular team meeting updates on Department and Trust positions.
Main duties of the job
Candidate will be managing a high risk caseload and working closely within a multi disciplinary team and using a range of advanced wound techniques in both in-patient and out-patients settings. There will be a 2 day rotational element for treating MSK patients
Candidate must be highly motivated and and should be able to cope with clinical emergencies in a pressurised environment.
You will be supervising junior staff and be involved in teaching, taking part in audit / research
The successfully candidate is required to be able to demonstrate Trust Valves, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country,
with around 12,500 staff; an annual turnover of more than £1 billion; and 1.6 million patient contacts a year. Our hospitals have a long and proud history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. We continue to build on these traditions and have a reputation for clinical, teaching and research excellence.
We provide a full range of hospital services for our local communities and -
from April 2011 – have integrated community services in Lambeth and
Southwark into the Trust. We also provide specialist services for patients
from further afield, including cancer, cardiac, kidney, women’s and
orthopaedic services, and we are home to the Evelina Children’s Hospital.
See www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk
We also have a positive approach to corporate social responsibility and are keen to engage our staff in an agenda that ranges from promoting environmental sustainability to the creation of local employment opportunities.
We are part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre
(AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between one of the world’s leading
Updated July 2015 research-led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts. Our AHSC is one of only five in the UK and consists of King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Guys & St. Thomas' Foundation trust.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Able to communicate clinical knowledge effectively with colleagues and patients
- At least 3 years Post graduate experience in the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising and training others
- Experience of clinical audit
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Podiatry
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Non-medical Prescribing
- Post Grad. Education
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of treating high risk caseload and MSK
- Experience in assessing patients with a range of medical conditions
- Able to demonstrate effective clinical reasoning in developing care pathways and treatment plans
Desirable criteria
- Experience in advance wound care techniques
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alpa Lakhani
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Podiatrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For further information, please contact:
[email protected](Clinical Lead)
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