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Main area
Podiatry
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
30 hours per week (PART TIME - 4 DAYS A WEEK)
Job ref
220-WHT-4118
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Islington and Haringey Health Centres
Town
Haringey or Islington
Salary
£47,951 - £56,863 Per Annum Including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/07/2026 23:59

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Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

Band 6 Podiatrist

Band 6

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Job overview

Exciting opportunity to take the next step in your podiatry career.

The post holder will already be working as part of a community podiatry team which works across both Islington and Haringey. 

 The post holder will have post registration NHS experience, and/or completed an additional post registration accredited clinical orientation programme or competency-based programme, enabling them to deliver high standards of clinical care working as an autonomous practitioner as required within both community and acute settings.

The post holder will be expected to independently assess, diagnose, develop, and implement individual care programmes for patients with a wide variety of multifactorial clinical needs, providing specialist care and highly specialist advice for patients with diabetes, dermatological and biomechanical problems.

The post holder will also be expected to plan and manage their own caseload of domiciliary patients, liaising with all parties of the multiprofessional team to ensure effective patient care. They will have line management responsibilities. 

The postholder will be expected to work across both Islington and Haringey boroughs according to service needs as well as at the Acute Hospital Clinic. 

Main duties of the job

a)    To be responsible for the assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of Podiatric care to a variety of patients (both adults and children) with a wide range of clinical needs to include; High risk diabetes, neuropathy, HIV, chronic disease e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, vascular disease, terminally ill, mental health patients and those requiring specialist would management and tissue viability assessment.  Staff will be required to re-assure, educate, and negotiate potentially complex treatment options where denial of pathology or compliance with treatment may be an issue, overcoming communication barriers.

b)    To be responsible for the interpretation of clinical findings and decision for onward referral for other interventions from other disciplines and/or additional departmental specialist areas, with communication thereof to all appropriate parties.

Working for our organisation

As an integrated care organisation, providing both hospital and community services, we offer a range of development opportunities along with attractive benefits to staff at all levels of our organisation.
 
Our aim is to provide outstanding care.  Care that is better coordinated, in the right place and designed around individual patient’s needs. This means we can bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients’ experience.
 
We also have a highly regarded educational role, teaching more than 600 undergraduate medical students, nurses and therapists each year and providing a range of educational packages for postgraduate doctors and other healthcare professionals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the full job description attached which contains a comprehensive breakdown of the key responsibilities of the role. 

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registration with the HCPC as a podiatrist
  • BSc or Diploma Equivalent in Podiatry
Desirable criteria
  • Certificate in Local Analgesia

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria
  • Able to work as part of a team
  • Good verbal and written communication skills demonstrating accuracy for bot literacy and numeracy
  • Good organisational skills demonstrating ability to independently manage domiciliary caseload

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • 12 month or more post qualification experience
  • Evidence of participating in and leading CPD
  • Completion of internal band 6 competency list and/or some post registration qualification or further learning

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerDisability confident committed

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sam Holden
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 3316 8850

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