Community Podiatrist

Ready to take the next step in your podiatry career?

Join us in Sirona care & health and build your skills in a role that offers real support, diverse clinical experience, and the chance to make a meaningful impact every day.

We welcome applications from Podiatry students graduating in 2025

This post is eligible for a relocation package

You’ll join a warm, supportive podiatry team covering Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire—an area known for championing internal progression and helping staff advance into senior roles.

We’re committed to your growth. Expect a structured induction, dedicated mentorship, regular 1:1s with your line manager, and ongoing clinical supervision. You’ll work alongside skilled, experienced podiatrists who will support your development every step of the way.

What You’ll Do

You’ll be empowered to work as an autonomous practitioner managing a varied and rewarding caseload, including:

• High-risk and diabetic foot care
• Wound care
• Biomechanics
  
  

Care is delivered across a range of settings—community clinics, GP practices, care and nursing homes, and even in patients’ own homes—giving you broad experience and plenty of opportunities to develop your clinical confidence.

We pride ourselves on evidence-based practice and delivering exceptional podiatry services. Our goal is simple: to help people live longer, healthier lives with easy access to the care they need within their community.

• To provide a high standard of podiatric care to maintain tissue viability, mobility and independence for patients that are high risk or have an acute foot infection. Delivered through assessment, diagnosis and developing of appropriate care plans.
• To provide planning and management of own caseload, with support and guidance from senior colleagues. Includes, specialist care for patients with diabetes, rheumatoid and biomechanical problems. Also includes specialist treatment plans for patients with a variety of clinical needs, including acute and chronic neuropathies, vascular, tissue viability problems and wound management.

To assess new and existing patients and use clinical judgements to ensure patients meet the access criteria and appropriately signpost to alternative providers when required (referring to mentor/senior podiatrist for support where appropriate).

To screen high-risk patients to monitor their condition and the degree of risk to their foot health, including neurological and vascular assessments.

To undertake domiciliary visits across the region.

To refer complex cases onto senior colleagues and/or other departments and discharge patients where appropriate as per referral pathways and guidelines.

To effectively communicate by involving and informing patients/carers of their care plan and its progress, overcoming potential communication barriers.

Provide foot health education and advice to patients, relatives, and carers in both one-to-one and group sessions.

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. It's time to turn your dream into reality!

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 we offer.

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 as an attachment on this vacancy.

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