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The post holder will have developed high levels of post-graduate knowledge and skills in all areas of specialist Podiatry care, enabling them to assess and treat their own highly prioritised caseload of patients with specialist care needs. This will include at least two years post registration, recent practical and theoretical experience within the NHS, of a wide range of specialist podiatric conditions, enabling them to deliver high standards of clinical care. Podiatrists at this grade will be expected to work alone within a set of defined parameters, but expected to decide for themselves how best to achieve the desired result in both the community and acute settings with guidance if required.

The job involves working in isolation in a variety of settings including hospitals, single chair clinical situations, and patients' homes and as part of a care team in residential care homes and in acute sites. The post holder will act as specialist lead for a designated site within a community clinical setting,

The role will involve treating a caseload of approximately 90 patients per week made up of both adults and minors, and patients with learning difficulties. This will involve the independent assessment, interpretation of complex problems, and consideration of differential diagnoses in order to develop, monitor, adjust and implement individualised care programmes for patients with a wide variety of complex clinical needs. As patient empowerment is of paramount importance to effective service delivery, the post holder will be expected to provide specialist care to such patients and highly specialised advice for such patients and/or their carers/relatives or other disciplines involved in their care. Effective liason with administrative staff is required to ensure effective implementation of the treatment plan / package of care.

The post holder will be expected to independently assess, interpret complex problems, and consider differential diagnoses, in order to develop, monitor, adjust and implement individualised care programmes for patients with a wide variety of complex clinical needs, such as diabetes, rheumatoid disease, chronic peripheral neuropathy, peripheral vascular deficiency, musculo-skeletal abnormalities, and ulceration.

The post holder will be actively involved in the provision of Foot Health Education sessions to patients, relatives and carers.


Podiatrists will experience and need to overcome communication barriers which could otherwise be detrimental to the delivery of patient care/understanding, whilst displaying an awareness of, and sensitivity to, social, cultural and economic issues.

The post holder will be required to frequently use highly, developed physical skills, requiring precision hand eye co-ordination in safe and effective scalpel technique across the spectrum of Podiatric Care, including ‘At Risk Feet' and ulceration, over prolonged periods during each shift. Moderate repetitive physical effort to control and position the foot and lower limb is required in order to achieve this skill safely.

The podiatrist will provide care in a range of primary and secondary care settings often working in isolation in difficult conditions that involve the moving and handling of patients who may be immobile, in a wheelchair or bed bound in accordance with manual handling policy and guidelines.

To ensure continuous Infection Control policy compliance and ensure Health and Safety legislation is complied with at all times: the post holder will frequently be dealing with blood and exudate from open infected clinical wounds and with blood during surgical procedures and, as there is close patient/podiatrist contact, may encounter contact with other bodily fluids, perspiration, odour or lice during the course of treatment with certain patients.
The position supports senior colleagues in the areas of Wound Care / Diabetes, emergency clinics, biomechanics and Nail Surgery. The job also requires participation in clinical rotation, supervision, peer review, audit and research and development.
The post holder will be involved in clinical audit relevant to service provision as required for development of Service provision.

For more information or if you wish to apply for this position, please contact the podiatry team on 02077498288 or email dh@labmedrecruit.co.uk.