Specialist podiatrist- Diabetes
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 33.75
- Posted
- 14/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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 role is for an experienced and passionate Podiatrist to join the Diabetes and Podiatry team, focusing on improving outcomes for people with diabetes foot complications. You will support the hospital diabetes team at UHD Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospitals, delivering high-quality specialist foot care and providing expert advice. The position involves assessment and management of complex diabetes-related foot complications, education, and health promotion. It is a part-time role for 33.75 hours per week, requiring a car driver for travel between sites.
Essential criteria
- Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level supplemented by post registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
- Membership of the relevant Professional Body
- Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio
Desirable criteria
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role
- Job specific experience
- Experience of specialist working in Diabetes
- Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of Diabetes
- Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
- Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role
- Experience of managing change
- Managerial/Supervisory Experience
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff
- Experience of devising and delivering training
- Personal Qualities/Attributes
- Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills
- Able to analyse and assess situations and to interpret potentially conflicting situations and determine appropriate action, where there is a range of options and judgement is required
- Demonstrable ability to analyse situations and provide a resolution
- Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours.
- Able to overcome barriers to understanding where there are physical or mental disabilities.
- Ability to use own initiative within sphere of authority
- Demonstrable ability of using tact and diplomacy
- Knowledge and understanding of legislation relevant to practice
- Ability to evaluate care leading to improvement in quality standards an service improvement
- Demonstrable leadership qualities and the ability to perform as a role model
- Willingness to advance own clinical knowledge, skill and competence based on current evidence
- Finance/resources
- Able to effectively manage available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment
- Information technology/resources
- Able to analyse data and produce reports using Microsoft Excel and Word
- Experience of using electronic patient / service user record systems
- Additional requirements
- Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English to a standard which enables the post holder to carry out the full range of duties and responsibilities of the role effectively.
- Business travel
- Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act, able to travel using own vehicle on Trust business.
- Knowledge, skills and training
- Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level supplemented by post registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
- Membership of the relevant Professional Body
- Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role
- Job specific experience
- Experience of specialist working in Diabetes
- Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of Diabetes
- Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
- Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role
- Experience of managing change
- Managerial/Supervisory Experience
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff
- Experience of devising and delivering training
- Personal Qualities/Attributes
- Able to communicate effectivel
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist podiatrist- Diabetes
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced and passionate Podiatrist, looking to develop your clinical and leadership skills? The Diabetes and Podiatry team would like you to join the team to help deliver and improve outcomes for people with diabetes foot complications.
You will support the hospital diabetes team (based in UHD Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospitals sites) to deliver high quality care. You will be forward thinking, with excellent communication, organisational, interpersonal skills and have an enthusiasm for improving patient care. The ability to liaise effectively with patients, members of the diabetes foot MDT, podiatry team leads and the wider healthcare team to ensure timely delivery of care will be essential. Your clinical work will involve looking after people with complex diabetes related foot complications.
We offer a supportive team working environment, pastoral and peer support with excellent learning and development opportunities. Your career is important to us, and we will support you in your ongoing clinical and leadership development.
This sought after role is a part-time position, for 33.75 hours per week. We will try to be flexible to accommodate a positive work life balance. Being a car driver with use of a vehicle is ess
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