Senior Podiatrist

Job overview

Are you a Podiatrist ready for a new challenge? Do you want to live in the thriving multi-cultural Southwest with easy access to the countryside, city, and sea? If so, we are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Podiatrists to come and join our team.

This post may be eligible for an up to £8k relocation package! Please check with us if you'd like to discuss the T&Cs

You will be joining a motivated, supportive, and friendly team who work across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire, with a proven track record of internal career promotion to senior roles. The ideal candidate will have a strong work ethic and the ability to work under pressure as an individual and as part of the wider team.

You will work as an autonomous practitioner using evidence-based practice to formulate and deliver individualised treatment plans for patients in community clinical and secondary outpatient settings as wells as in people’s homes.

You will apply appropriate clinical reasoning to manage a varied caseload consisting of high risk, diabetes, wound care and biomechanics patients. You will work alongside experienced podiatrists and be encouraged in your professional development, having access to regular 1:1’s and clinical supervision. You will participate in rotations for nail surgery, specialist diabetes foot care MDT clinics, and biomechanics.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard of podiatric care to maintain tissue viability, mobility, and independence for high-risk patients or those who have an acute infection. This will be delivered through assessment, diagnosis, and development of care plans, including specialist care plans for patients with specialist care needs such as acute and chronic neuropathies, vascular, neurological, tissue viability and wound care management, diabetes, musculoskeletal and rheumatological problems
• To be responsible, as a senior practitioner, for prioritising/supervising own workload
• To be responsible for supporting/mentoring junior staff/ students/apprentices
• Organise and forward planning the day to day running of your podiatry clinics, domiciliary sessions, assessing new patients, and being a point of contact for any issues or problems arising with the Podiatry Service (clinical/admin)
• To be responsible for triaging of referrals and re-directing, where appropriate, following relevant pathways
• To contribute to multi-disciplinary care by discussing own and others input around patient’s needs, ensuring a well-co-ordinated care plan, agreeing shared decision making on individual patient management

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

podImportant Information:

• Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.
• This is a rolling advert and so please apply at your earliest convenience.
• If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted.

Check out more about our service: Podiatry Service – Sirona care & health NHS services

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.