About this role
Job summary
Looking for your next leadership step in Podiatry? We have the perfect opportunity.
We're seeking a motivated Band 7 Podiatrist with a passion for leadership, service improvement, and clinical education to join us as our Operational Lead.
This is a pivotal role where you'll work closely with the Service Clinical and Operational Lead (CLOP) in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care by monitoring performance against key indicators, analysing capacity and demand, and driving service improvements to enhance outcomes and patient experience.
You'll bring your specialist expertise in high-risk foot management, working across complex clinical and domiciliary caseloads. A key part of the role includes contributing to MDT diabetes foot clinics within secondary care, collaborating closely with diabetes and vascular teams.
Collaboration is at the heart of this role. You'll work alongside clinical leads, providing specialist advice to stakeholders and play a central role in developing education, training, competency frameworks, and clinical governance. You will also support supervision and professional development across the workforce.
If you're a clinician with strong leadership skills to shape service delivery and make a meaningful impact across Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire, we would love to hear from you.
This role is eligible for our Relocation Package
Main duties of the job
You will provide strong operational and clinical leadership within the Podiatry Service, supporting the Podiatry CLOP to deliver safe, effective, and high-quality care. They will lead on service performance, including monitoring KPIs, analysing capacity and demand, and driving continuous service improvement to enhance patient outcomes and experience.
You will maintain a complex clinical caseload, providing specialist assessment and management of high-risk foot conditions across clinic and domiciliary settings. They will contribute to multidisciplinary working, including diabetes foot clinics, supporting coordinated, patient-centred care.
The role includes line management of staff, workforce planning, recruitment, and performance management, ensuring effective deployment of resources and equitable service delivery. The post holder will oversee day-to-day operations, including clinic capacity, rota coordination, and estate issues, proactively resolving challenges and escalating risks as required.
They will lead on clinical governance, including audit, quality improvement, and incident management, embedding learning into practice. As a visible clinical leader, they will provide supervision, mentorship, and education to develop workforce capability and promote evidence-based practice.
Working collaboratively across BNSSG, they will implement service developments and organisational change, ensuring a consistent and responsive podiatry service.
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
Important Information:
This post is eligible for our *Relocation Package* - for more information please reach out to [email protected] Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position. If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications Essential
Degree in Podiatric Medicine Certificate of local anaesthesia Post graduate training at Masters level or equivalent in diabetes foot care, wound care, high risk foot or minor surgery
Desirable
Non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake qualification
Experience, skills and knowledge Essential
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.
Desirable
Evidence of operational management- i.e. capacity and demand modelling, diary management , staff leave etc. Evidence of representing podiatry service in meetings, deputiaing for podiatry senior leadership. Experience of leadership/ operational management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Sirona care & health CIC
Address Knowle Clinic
Broadfield Road
Bristol
BS4 2UH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)