Highly Specialist Podiatrist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a full-time Band 7 Highly Specialist Podiatrist role within Newham's Podiatry Service, based primarily at The Appleby Road Health Centre in London. The successful candidate will work in outpatient High Risk Foot clinics, Nail Surgery, MSK, and Community Outpatient clinics, including domiciliary provision. The role involves assessing patients, creating treatment plans, and escalating care when necessary, with a focus on debridement and wound management. You will also supervise staff and students, and contribute to service development.
Essential criteria
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Education/ Qualification/ Training
- 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
- 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
- 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
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 14d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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East London NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Podiatrist
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Newham's Podiatry Service are recruiting for Band 7 podiatrists, full-time (Monday to Friday 9-5). 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.
If the above is of interest to you and you would like to know more, get in touch with us now to find out more about this exciting career move. Please contact us on [phone number removed] to speak to [contact details removed] (Clinical Lead, Foot Health)for further information or if you would like to arrange an informal visit.
Main duties of the job
You will work in outpatient High Risk Foot clinics as part of the Service Level Agreement with Barts He
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