Wound Care Lead Podiatrist

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Job overview

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. All 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.

Are you looking to advance your l eadership skills, contribute to service innovation, and deliver exceptional patient care?

We can’t wait to hear from you.

This post is eligible for our Relocation Package

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• This post is eligible for our Relocation Package - for more information please reach out to (emailprotected)

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• Degree in Podiatric Medicine
• Certificate in local anaesthesia
• Post graduate training at masters level or equivalent in diabetes foot care, wound care, high risk foot or minor surgery
• Non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake qualification

Experience, skills and knowledge

• Highly specialised clinical reasoning skills
• Evidence of managing risk in unpredictable , uncertain situations to uphold patient safety
• Specialised clinical skills and theoretical knowledge within full range of podiatric practice
• Highly developed specialist knowledge and experience in regard to the diabetic and high risk foot
• Evidence of teaching, supervising and mentoring abroad range of clinicians
• Evidence of leadership behaviours including autonomous practice, self-reflection, promotion of cultural change
• Experience of working as a clinical supervisor, designing, developing and delivering programmes of learning in line with evidence based practice to peers and junior staff members.
• Clinically competent to assess and manage foot conditions involving in diabetes, peripheral arterial disease, wound care, or nail surgery, long term conditions putting the foot at high risk of complications.
• Evidence of representing podiatry service in meetings, deputiaing for podiatry senior leadership.
• Experience of developing, delivering and publishing evidence based system wide clinical pathways/guidelines
• Experience of producing 72 hour reports and root cause analysis

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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