Podiatrist in Peterborough

Greater Peterborough Network is seeking an experienced and knowledgeable Podiatrist to join our Primary Care at Scale services, to oversee the Podiatry Services delivered at Peterborough City Hospital for its inpatients and outpatients. The successful candidate will proactively manage the efficient day-to-day running of the service and will work closely with other clinicians and teams, as well as other service providers, making sure that appropriate treatment and referrals are provided for patients. The postholder will work with a diverse range of people from different cultural and social backgrounds. The ability to work independently, confidently, and effectively in a varied and sometimes challenging environment is essential.

As this is an evolving role, we are looking for experienced candidates with a flexible attitude, who are keen to work, learn, and share knowledge as part of a team. Good working relationships and the ability to multitask are essential to this role. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Podiatrist to really make their mark in a successful and growing healthcare organisation that is committed to seeking new, creative, and better ways to deliver services and care for our patients.

Main duties of the job

• To independently triage referrals and determine appropriate care pathways, ensuring patients are directed to the most suitable services in a timely manner while coordinating onward referrals when specialist input or additional investigations are required.
• To undertake comprehensive clinical assessments and apply advanced analytical skills to interpret complex clinical information, including imaging and pathology reports, in order to formulate accurate diagnoses, prognoses, and tailored management plans.
• To manage and organise a designated caseload of patients, prioritising clinical needs effectively while ensuring efficient use of time and resources to deliver safe and timely care.
• To maintain accurate and up-to-date patient records and clinical documentation, ensuring all consultations, treatments, and outcomes are clearly recorded in line with legal, organisational, and professional standards.
• To provide education, guidance, and specialist advice to patients, relatives, carers, and healthcare professionals, supporting understanding of foot health management and encouraging engagement in treatment and rehabilitation plans.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver inpatient podiatry 5 days/week
• Urgent triage and treatment during crisis episode
• Reduce length of stay (LOS) / admission avoidance by early intervention
• Minimise severity through early treatment
• Improve patient pathways and timely assessment
• MDT access
• Reduce risk of complications and amputations
• Foster professional integration with community services

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Podiatry or equivalent.
• Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) with annotations POM-A, POM-S, and Independent Prescriber.
• 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.

Experience

• Experience in advanced podiatry practice, including complex wound care.
• Able to work independently and manage high-risk patients.
• Experience leading Podiatry services.
• Coordinating and liaising with multiple stakeholders or individuals to meet specified outcomes.
• 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.
• Experience of working in a fast‑paced NHS environment and managing competing demands.
• Experience 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.

Personal Attributes & Abilities

• Positive, professional, approachable, and respectful attitude to others.
• Ability to work autonomously with little direct supervision.
• Good decision-making skills with an excellent attention to detail.
• Reliability.
• Flexibility.
• 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.
• Performing clinical treatments in physically restricted work positions requiring repetitive fine movements.

Additional criteria

• All applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application.
• A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring check at enhanced level for adults and children.

Communication & Skills

• Ability to effectively communicate and resolve issues with a range of diverse colleagues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to plan and organise own workload without direct supervision.
• Excellent inter‑personal skills and the ability to communicate and work effectively with a wide range of people from different backgrounds at all levels of seniority.
• The ability to be innovative, objective, and logical in resolving problems.
• The ability to prioritise and balance a range of competing tasks to deliver to agreed timescales.
• Ability to appreciate, empathise, and be sympathetic to challenging and difficult situations and help manage them with professionalism and maturity.

Knowledge

• Ability to professionally process safeguarding and distressing or uncomfortable situations.
• 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.
• Ability to apply biomechanics knowledge to a wound care setting.
• Adaptability to a variety of working environments.
• Ability to cope with sometimes distressing settings and work tasks.
• 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.
• Good understanding of referral pathways.
• Good working knowledge of General IT setup and systems.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.