Specialist Podiatrist - Diabetes
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic podiatrist to join a multidisciplinary diabetic foot team at the Norfolk & Norwich University NHS Foundation Trust. The role involves treating patients with acute diabetic foot complications in both inpatient and outpatient settings, participating in medical and surgical clinics, and developing skills in infection management, debridement, and off-loading. The successful applicant will also be involved in clinical research and departmental education.
Key responsibilities
- Work as a member of the diabetic foot team in both inpatient and outpatients treating people with acute diabetic foot complications.
- Experience dedicated medical and surgical clinics and ward rounds.
- Develop skills in the management of infection, specialist debridement and off-loading.
- Be involved in clinical research being carried out within the department.
- Actively involved in the delivery of departmental education material.
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree in Podiatry
- Registration with the Health Professions Council (UK)
- Evidence of CPD, maintained in a portfolio showing CPD events/activity relevant to the clinical speciality
- Working knowledge of a broad range of conditions
- Ability to undertake comprehensive specialist assessment of patients using investigative and analytical skills and to make a clinical diagnosis based on presenting signs and symptoms.
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focus, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of clinical governance and implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit. Including NICE guidance
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Specialist Podiatrist - Diabetes
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
We would like to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic podiatrist to join our multidisciplinary diabetic foot team based at the Norfolk & Norwich University NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a really exciting opportunity to join a well-established multidisciplinary diabetic foot team which is one of the largest in the East of England and we see over 700 new patients and 6500 follow-ups per year, all of whom have complex foot disease.
What we can offer
You will join a team of seven podiatrists. We can offer real variety in different sub-specialty working alongside consultants' colleagues in diabetes, microbiology, renal, vascular, plastics, and orthopedic surgery in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
However, being based in one of the UK's leading research hospital the role of a podiatrist can become so much more. We are actively involved in several large multicenter research projects and publish widely on many aspects of diabetic foot disease. This would give the successful applicant the opportunity to participate in the ongoing research and contribute to the department's ongoing research strategy.
Main duties of the job
You will work as a member of the diabetic foot team in both inpatient and outpatients treat
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