# Specialist Podiatrist Long Term Conditions > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-podiatrist-long-term-conditions/d8c25842-d25a-46af-b8f6-04e4538cdbef - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-podiatrist-long-term-conditions/d8c25842-d25a-46af-b8f6-04e4538cdbef.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Podiatrist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro rata) - **Contract type:** 9 months (Fixed Term) - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-23T14:41:04.834Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Wembley_Middlesex/Central_London_Community_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Podiatrist/Podiatrist-v8179055 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8179055?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.clch.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced Podiatrist with a passion for high-risk foot care and an interest in developing your leadership skills? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a dynamic and supportive podiatry team in Brent and Harrow Specialist Care This role is available as a 9-month secondment to cover maternity leave  part-time and flexible working options available. You will be part of a forward-thinking service that values innovation, collaboration and continuous professional development. You will be supported in this role to grow across all four domains of practice: clinical care, leadership, education and research. Dedicated support is provided by senior colleagues, Service Lead and a Practice Development Podiatrist who works across the organisation supporting our services. This is an excellent opportunity to advance your career while contributing to high-quality patient care within a community-focused service. ### Main duties of the job In this role, you will deliver high-quality podiatry care, with a focus on high-risk patients, while developing your leadership and service improvement skills. Key responsibilities include: - Providing specialist assessment, diagnosis and treatment for patients with complex and high-risk foot conditions - Supporting service delivery and contributing to the ongoing development of podiatry services - Participating in leadership activities and quality improvement initiatives - Contributing to education and training for colleagues and students where appropriate - Engaging in research and service development projects to improve patient outcomes - Working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to deliver coordinated care You will also benefit from: - Access to a wide range of learning opportunities, including courses, workshops and a supportive network - Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance The role may involve working across different community locations within Brent. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Substantive experience of working at a band 6 level or above. - Experience of case management of a high risk caseload: leadership of a Vascular and or Woundcare patient pathway. - Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency working. - Experience of clinical supervision, and leading, teaching & mentoring others - Experience of continuous quality improvement, clinical pathway improvement, & service development - Knowledge of audit and risk assessment. - Understand and apply principles of Clinical Governance within the 3 domains of quality. - Understand equality and diversity and its implications in care provision. **Desirable** - Experience of working in a fast-paced NHS environment and managing competing demands. - Experience of line management of others, including sickness absence management. - Practical application of National high risk foot and lower limb prevention strategies, including The National Woundcare Strategy Programme ### Key Attributes **Essential** - Able to communicate with respect, and discuss successfully, topics of conversation that can be challenging in planning patient care and through staff management. - Ability to cope with a busy demanding and varied workloads - Able to cope with the demands of moving between sessional clinics. This may include carriage of clinical equipment. - Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010) - Performing clinical treatments in physically restricted work positions requiring repetitive fine movements. **Desirable** - Ability to appreciate, empathise and be sympathetic to challenging and difficult situations and help manage them with professionalism and maturity. ### Skills & Knowledge **Essential** - Ability to professionally process safeguarding and distressing or uncomfortable situations, e.g. terminally ill patients, recognise report abuse of others, providing guidance to team members where appropriate. - Ability to analyse patients concerns, their needs, and propose a range of effective solutions with adaptive communication styles - Ability to undertake sustained intricate work in using sensitive diagnostic tools and a range of surgical instruments, for example the management and debridement of tissue viability/wounds etc. - Ability to apply biomechanics knowledge to a wound care setting, for example offloading, casting etc. - Adaptability to a variety of working environments including the patients own homes if required. - Ability to cope with sometimes distressing settings and work tasks including wound care, necrotic tissue, neglected pathology and exposure to malodour, body fluids including blood and wound exudate. - Ability to reflect on own practice as well as seek and accept feedback. - Passion for own and professional progression, forward thinking and innovative - Ability to understand, appreciate and articulate implications of data, and apply the learning to staff rota management and job planning, directing others as required. **Desirable** - Planning, organising, and chairing team meetings. - Development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures. - Experience of the review and updating of clinical systems templates. - Ability to understand business continuity plans. - Experience of implementation of Patient Group Directives to improve patient care pathways ### Education/Qualification **Essential** - BSc Degree in Podiatric Medicine or equivalent. - Evidence of continual professional and personal development portfolio, including postgraduate course attendance - Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) with annotations POM-A, POM-S, and Independent Prescriber (or willingness to train). **Desirable** - Ionising radiation (medical exposure) regulations certificate- IR(ME)R and proficient in using PACS. - Training in requesting and interpretation of investigations relevant to foot complications - Education in advanced podiatric practice such as MSc in Podiatric Medicine or equivalent. - Leadership qualification/course. ## Documents - [clch trust values (pdf, 893.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10482100) - [functional requirements (pdf, 439.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10482099) - [specialist podiatrist long term conditions (pdf, 752.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10482098) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.