Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Podiatrist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7273613KD
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Victoria Therapy Centre
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Podiatrist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
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Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHCT) Community Podiatry Services are looking for a highly motivated, proactive and focused qualified Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) registered Specialist Podiatrist to join their department. Essential qualifications required to apply are: Diploma/ Degree in Podiatric Medicine, HPC registration, local anaesthetic certificate, computer literate and an understanding of pathways of care.
To assess, diagnose, treat and evaluate abnormalities and diseases related to the foot and lower limb in people of all ages. provide treatment for high-risk patient groups such as the elderly and those with increased risk of amputation.
To provide high quality support to others in the team and work into wider MDTs to the benefit of patients.
Main duties of the job
You will be joining a highly motivated and friendly professional team. Duties will include delivering evidence-based podiatry within clinics and patients homes. The post covers the North Tyneside locality.
To be a strong candidate we are looking for a Specialist Podiatrist able to integrate into multidisciplinary teams, function within a supportive peer group and display the strength of character to work autonomously. There is a requirement to support and develop others including podiatry students and other professions, podiatry assistants and newly qualified staff.
This is a full time position.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work as part of a highly motivated team, with NHS post-registration experience and/or having completed a band 6 competency based programme. The job entails autonomous working without supervision across community and acute settings providing a high standard of quality clinical care.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
The post holder will provide professional, quality planned programmes of podiatry care to a specified caseload of patients based on their clinical needs and provide specialist care in order to maintain mobility, independence, tissue viability and to relieve discomfort especially for those patients with diabetes, circulatory disorders, neuropathy, rheumatoid arthritis and biomechanical pathologies.
The post-holder must be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, acting as a source of professional advice to patients, carers, GPs and other healthcare professionals and will be expected to contribute to the development of the Podiatry Department and to adhere to Trust and Departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Have a relevant diploma/ degree in Chiropody/ Podiatric Medicine from a recognised institution and have previous accumulated postgraduate experience
- Demonstrate continued registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Have a certificate in local anaesthesia
Desirable criteria
- Prescribing for Podiatrists
- Diploma in Diabetes Care
- Health Education Certificate
- Teachers Certificate
- Preparation for Mentoring Course
- Radiology and Diagnostic Skills
- Shoe Fitting Skills
- ECDL European Computer Driving License
- Clinical Educator qualification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Have a history of continual professional development whilst continuing to attend organised departmental and regional/ national events. The post holder will be expected to have a high degree of knowledge over a wide range of clinical conditions including diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, peripheral vascular disease, biomechanics and must have developed a high level of manual dexterity.
- Experience of working in the NHS and completion of a Senior II competency programme.
- Experience in specialist areas of work, i.e. minor nail surgery, biomechanics, rheumatology and managing the ‘at risk or ‘high risk’ foot
- Experience working single handed and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of treatment planning and discharge planning according to clinical need
Desirable criteria
- Range of relevant short courses.
- Held a previous post in the relevant field.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Specialised knowledge of Diabetes, Rheumatology, Biomechanics, Wound Management gained through short courses, CPD and in-house training
- Be able to supervise and mentor.
Desirable criteria
- Basic IT skills to aid with audit and data collection.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Victoria Marshall
- Job title
- Deputy Podiatry Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07799148499
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