Wound Care Lead Podiatrist

If you’re a Senior Podiatrist who thrives on making a real difference to patients with complex needs, this is your opportunity to turn your passion for wound care into the next step in your career. Our team delivers specialist wound care across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, where your expertise will directly impact patients at some of their most vulnerable moments.

You’ll work across clinic and domiciliary settings, providing highly specialist assessment, treatment, and management to high-risk, complex wounds, while playing a key role in shaping how care is delivered. This is a chance to work collaboratively with other leads within the service and multidisciplinary teams, including participation in secondary care diabetes foot clinics, and play a key role in the development, education, and governance of Podiatry wound care services.

Provides advanced assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for patients with complex and high-risk wound care needs, managing a specialist caseload across community clinics and domiciliary settings in Bristol and surrounding areas. Develops and delivers evidence-based, personalised care plans, closely monitoring wound progression and identifying early signs of deterioration. Utilises digital technology, including an AI-supported wound care app, to remotely review non-healing wounds and ensure timely intervention.

Acts as a clinical leader within wound care, offering specialist advice to colleagues and partner organisations while supporting service improvement and clinical excellence. Contributes to the development and implementation of clinical pathways and protocols, ensuring care aligns with best practice. Works collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, including participation in secondary care diabetic foot clinics alongside diabetes and vascular specialists, to provide integrated care across BNSSG. Builds strong relationships with stakeholders to support seamless patient pathways.

Leads on education, training, and mentorship, supporting workforce development through competency frameworks, supervision, and promotion of continuous professional development. Works with clinical and operational leads to enhance service delivery, contributing to governance, audit, and quality improvement initiatives, and ensuring compliance with local and national standards.

We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire. Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Samantha Draper Job title: Podiatry Clinical and Operational Lead Email address: samantha.draper@nhs.net Telephone number: 07810753273