About this role
Job summary
If you're a Band 7 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 leadership 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 South Gloucestershire. 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 working 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.
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 in 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. 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.
Desirable
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
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
BS42UH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)