Community PodiatristNHS

Job summary

Package Description: Empower People to Stay Active, Independent and Healthy Healthy feet play a crucial role in helping people live active, independent lives. By joining our podiatry team, you'll directly impact the wellbeing of individuals and communities across Bath, Swindon, and Wiltshire, providing expert care that enables better health outcomes and improves quality of life. As a Community Specialist Podiatrist, you'll combine clinical expertise with compassionate care to support patients with a wide range of podiatric needs, including long-term conditions, musculoskeletal presentations, and nail surgery. Beyond patient care, you'll help shape the future of the service by mentoring colleagues, supporting quality improvements, and contributing to innovative service developments. Whether you're an experienced practitioner or newly qualified, you'll be supported to thrive and grow within a team that values collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement. Base: Melksham Community Hospital

Main duties of the job

As a Community Podiatrist, you will empower people to stay active, independent, and healthy by playing a crucial role in helping individuals live active lives. You'll directly impact individuals' and communities' well-being in areas such as Bath, Swindon, and Wiltshire, providing expert podiatry care leading to better health outcomes. As a Community Specialist Podiatrist, you'll support patients with various podiatric needs, including long-term conditions, musculoskeletal issues, and nail surgery. In addition to patient care, you'll mentor colleagues, support quality improvements, and contribute to service developments. The role is based at Melksham Community Hospital, requiring 37.5 hours per week commitment. You'll have access to exclusive rewards and benefits and work in a team that values collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.

Job description

Package Description: Empower People to Stay Active, Independent and Healthy

Healthy feet play a crucial role in helping people live active, independent lives. By joining our podiatry team, you'll directly impact the wellbeing of individuals and communities across Bath, Swindon, and Wiltshire, providing expert care that enables better health outcomes and improves quality of life.

As a Community Specialist Podiatrist, you'll combine clinical expertise with compassionate care to support patients with a wide range of podiatric needs, including long-term conditions, musculoskeletal presentations, and nail surgery. Beyond patient care, you'll help shape the future of the service by mentoring colleagues, supporting quality improvements, and contributing to innovative service developments. Whether you're an experienced practitioner or newly qualified, you'll be supported to thrive and grow within a team that values collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.

Base:Melksham Community HospitalHours: 37.5 hours per week

Package DescriptionAs a Community Podiatrist you will be part of our valued team in our Adult Podiatry Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £39,959 - £48,117 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Undertake specialist assessment, treatment, and management of patients using advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.
• Manage a defined caseload, including patients with complex, high-risk, and long-term conditions.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure coordinated and effective patient care.
• Promote self-management and independence through education, advice, training, and provision of appropriate equipment.
• Contribute to service planning, policy implementation, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Support the education, supervision, and development of students and less experienced practitioners.
• Deliver and support nail surgery services, adhering to local and national clinical guidelines.
• Maintain professional standards, confidentiality, and accurate clinical documentation at all times.

What We're Looking ForThis opportunity would suit a clinically skilled and proactive podiatrist with the ability to deliver specialist care while contributing to service development and multidisciplinary working.

Essential Criteria

• Degree in Podiatry from an HCPC-approved institution.
• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• HCPC-recognised qualification in local anaesthesia.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and current clinical practice.
• Sound knowledge across key podiatry disciplines, including chronic and acute wound management, nail surgery, biomechanics, and orthotic intervention.
• Ability to manage a diverse caseload and make evidence-based clinical decisions.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Confidence working independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrable IT literacy.

Desirable Criteria

• Foot in Diabetes Module or equivalent qualification.
• Qualification relating to prescription-only medicines.
• Formal mentorship or student educator training.
• Experience using SystmOne or comparable electronic patient record systems.
• Previous involvement in service improvement initiatives.

For full details of the role, responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the attached Job Description.

About the CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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About us

Established in 2006, HCRG Care Group is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. The organization works with health and care commissioners to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. HCRG Care Group delivers adult and children's community health services, primary care services, including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and MSK services, as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. They support communities across England, directly impacting over half a million people annually, guided by their values: we care, we think, we do. The company is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from a diverse range of people.