Advanced Podiatrist

Job summary

We are seeking to appoint an experienced podiatrist to work within the Bexley Community High Risk Podiatry team.

We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible podiatrist to join our friendly and dedicated team at Oxleas. This role will involve working across sites; community and acute.

Applicants must be registered with the HCPC and have a degree in Podiatry with a Local Anaesthesia certificate. It is essential that you have the ability to work flexibly, and you should be a driver with access to a car for work purposes.

Main duties of the job

Our service delivers comprehensive high risk podiatry care to the residents of Bexley.

You will be involved in the assessment and planning of individual patient care, working independently and as part of a team, so excellent communication, diagnostic, and team building skills are essential.

We deliver patient care to a variety of clinical settings including community health centres, patients' homes, and residential/care homes. You will be responsible for undertaking advanced diabetes foot care in line with NICE guidance and associated care planning and risk management.

This role also requires you to undertake line management responsibilities including recruitment, health roster, complaints investigations, and performance reviews.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools, and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London, we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Date posted

17 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£51,883 to £58,544 a year pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-7151161-CPH

Job locations

Bexley Community Podiatrist

50 Pier Road

Erith

DA8 1RQ

Job description Job responsibilities

You will have excellent clinical skills and extensive experience of treating patients with a wide variety of long-term conditions, especially those with high-risk clinical needs. Our aim is to deliver excellent quality care to patients to maintain their mobility and independence. You must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and enthusiasm for contributing to the service provided by the Trust.

Oxleas is committed to CPD and training initiatives to achieve personal and service objectives. We offer regular 1:1 supervision meetings; an annual PDR, frequent peer reviews, and monthly in-house CPD sessions. The team also has access to a dedicated CPD training budget to support staff development. We support the training of Podiatry students, and our Podiatrists are actively involved in a clinical educator programme with the University of East London.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential

• Bachelor of Science - Podiatry
• HCPC Registration
• Previous line management experience

Desirable

• IRMER Certificate
• Teaching, Mentoring, Supervision Experience

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 3 years working at a band 6 level
• Domiciliary & Care Home Experience
• Previous NHS Experience

Desirable

• Experience across community and acute
• MDT working

Specialist Clinical Skills

Essential

• Advanced debridement skills and wound care knowledge
• Experienced in advanced neurovascular assessments of lower limb
• Advanced knowledge of complex wound treatments

Desirable

• Previous acute hospital experience
• Casting/ offloading experience

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Evidence of team working

Desirable

• Prior Band 7 experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bexley Community Podiatrist

50 Pier Road

Erith

DA8 1RQ

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)