Band 6 Specialist Podiatrist

Job summary

The Birmingham Community Podiatry team is one of the largest in the UK. We offer a range of specialist services for high risk patients and have excellent links with the acute sector, including vascular and diabetes.

Do you have excellent clinical diagnostic and interpersonal skills?

Are you motivated to achieve great outcomes for high risk patients in this great City?

If so then come and join our team.

An excellent opportunity is available for enthusiastic, flexible and motivated podiatrists to join our committed and progressive team. The role will mainly be based within either the Central and South or East and North localities of this vibrant city.

Main duties of the job

You should be HCPC registered with a degree in podiatry and an understanding of podiatry in the NHS.

You should have established clinical skills: confident in assessment and individual treatment planning of a caseload, with a strong emphasis on the high risk patient, including specialist wound care. Demonstrate confidence to manage MSK conditions and should also exhibit proficient IT skills.

You should be confident to work autonomously in community clinics and on home visits. You should also be able to demonstrate an ability to work as a part of a wider team. You will be expected to take part in nail surgery and will have opportunity for rotation into specialist areas.

Excellent communication, organisational and prioritisation skills are essential, using your own initiative, as well as working in a team. You will be expected to take an active part in CPD and student placements and should be prepared to be given responsibility within clinics.

We welcome applications from overseas candidates.

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Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.