Job summary
- Main area
- Podiatry
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 150-SK2603-PC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University of Brighton, Falmer Campus
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Educator Lead / Clinical Academic in Podiatry
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic Podiatrist to join a unique joint appointment between Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) and the University of Brighton. This innovative role combines clinical excellence, education, leadership, and service development within the University’s collaborative teaching clinic at Falmer.
The successful postholder will provide clinical and educational leadership, supporting the delivery of a high-quality, safe, and effective student-led podiatry service while ensuring students gain outstanding practice-based learning experiences. Working across both organisations, you will play a pivotal role in bridging clinical practice and academic education, mentoring the next generation of podiatrists and supporting the development of a dynamic learning environment.
This role offers a varied workload, with an anticipated split of approximately 60% clinical education/practice and 40% academic teaching activity, allowing you to make a meaningful impact across both healthcare and higher education settings.
You will embody the values of both organisations, demonstrating a commitment to compassionate care, partnership working, equity, excellence, innovation, and sustainability while helping shape the future podiatry workforce.
For queries relating to the University of Brighton/academic elements of this role please contact Lucy Redhead - [email protected]
Main duties of the job
Provide clinical and educational leadership within the University of Brighton’s collaborative teaching clinic, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective podiatry services.
Maintain an active clinical caseload, delivering specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients with complex podiatric needs.
Lead, supervise, support, and assess undergraduate and postgraduate podiatry students in clinical practice, ensuring high-quality practice-based learning experiences.
Design, deliver, and assess teaching across podiatry programmes, contributing to curriculum development and the continuous improvement of student learning.
Develop and support practice educators and clinical supervisors to enhance the quality and consistency of clinical education.
Work collaboratively with academic colleagues, NHS partners, and external stakeholders to strengthen partnerships and ensure clinical learning opportunities meet professional and regulatory standards.
Participate in research, scholarship, and innovation activities that inform teaching, clinical practice, and service development.
Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, and sustainability, while upholding the values of both Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Brighton.
Maintain professional registration, clinical competency, and continuing professional development to support excellence in practice, education, and leadership.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As the Clinical Education Lead and Senior Podiatry Lecturer, you will provide clinical and educational leadership within the University of Brighton's collaborative teaching clinic, working in partnership with Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.
This varied role combines specialist clinical practice, student supervision, teaching, and service development. You will ensure the delivery of a high-quality, safe, and effective student-led podiatry service while supporting students to develop the knowledge, skills, and professional behaviours required for contemporary podiatry practice.
Key responsibilities include:
Clinical Leadership and Practice
- Maintain an active clinical role, managing patients with complex podiatric needs and providing specialist assessment and treatment.
- Promote evidence-based practice and clinical excellence across the teaching clinic.
- Support clinical governance, quality improvement, risk management, and service development activities.
- Act as a clinical role model and source of expert advice for students, clinicians, patients, and carers.
Clinical Education and Student Support
- Lead and quality assure practice-based learning within the teaching clinic.
- Supervise, mentor, and assess undergraduate and postgraduate podiatry students in clinical settings.
- Support students' professional development through regular feedback, coaching, and pastoral guidance.
- Work collaboratively with practice educators and placement partners to provide outstanding learning experiences.
Teaching and Curriculum Development
- Contribute to the design, delivery, assessment, and evaluation of teaching across podiatry programmes.
- Support curriculum development and continuous enhancement of educational provision.
- Participate in student recruitment, admissions, assessment, and academic quality assurance processes.
Research, Scholarship and Service Development
- Contribute to research, scholarship, and innovation activities that enhance teaching and clinical practice.
- Use current evidence and professional guidance to inform education and service delivery.
- Develop partnerships with healthcare providers, professional bodies, and external organisations to support student learning and workforce development.
Leadership and Partnership Working
- Act as a key link between Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Brighton, and practice learning partners.
- Build effective relationships across clinical and academic environments.
- Contribute to strategic developments that enhance clinical education, patient care, and student outcomes.
The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to the values of both organisations and a passion for developing the future podiatry workforce through high-quality clinical education and patient-centred care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Podiatry
- Current registration with the Health Care Professions Council as a Podiatrist
- Evidence of relevant post graduate courses/CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical specialty
- Knowledge of mentorship or practice assessing, education and development, or research methodologies to diploma level
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for this role
- Recognised teaching/research qualification relevant to role or willingness to complete
- Evidence of leadership education/development or a willingness to undertake this
Desirable criteria
- Post registration qualification or training to Masters level or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post graduate experience
- Expert clinician and able to demonstrate credibility
- Relevant managerial experience
- Significant experience of supervision provision
- Significant experience of working in the clinical setting managing a complex clinical caseload
- Significant experience providing clinical leadership to a team
- Experience of managing a multi-professional team / collaborative working
- Experience of delivering quality improvement and productivity
- Evidence of active participating in audit and clinically relevant research
- Experience of being a practice educator/supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, module leadership, curriculum design, simulation or research.
- Fellowship (or eligibility and willingness to work towards) of Advance HE.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate expertise within clinical area underpinned by theory and significant experience
- Use of advanced reasoning and assessment skills demonstrated in knowledge and experience shown in a wide range of approaches to treatments, management of conditions and situations
- Demonstrates excellent leadership and ability to empower others in practice
- Demonstrates ability to delegate to others
- Competent IT skills, with the ability to use a number of databases, excel, word and internet for teaching and learning
- Excellent written communication skills with an ability to negotiate and manage conflict
- Current knowledge of local and national policies informing health and social care
- Demonstrates an ability to draw information from a range of sources in order to make a contribution to service development
- Demonstrates leadership in practice
- Demonstrates an ability to apply research to practice
- Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills
- Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit
- Demonstrates ability to reflect and learn from situations
- Demonstrates a commitment of life-long learning and development with documented evidence of CPD
- Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development, skill sharing and developing staff competencies
- Demonstrates an ability to identify and manage difficult situations and act appropriately to obtain support
- Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
- Demonstrates self awareness, able to identify personal limitation and shows openness to address them
- Use of advanced clinical reasoning demonstrated in knowledge and experience shown in a wide range of approaches to treatments and management of conditions
- Understanding of academic and award standards and the range and level of knowledge and skills, both subject-specific and generic, which the programme is intended to foster.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel has driving license and car available for work purposes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Eleanor Rezazadeh
- Job title
- Clinical Head of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07787277530
- Additional information
Dave Atkins, Podiatry Professional Lead - [email protected]
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