Band 6 Experienced Podiatrist

As part of one of the Trust's largest and most established clinical teams, you will play a key role in delivering specialist podiatric care to patients with complex needs. The North Podiatry Service operates across West Sussex, providing a broad range of opportunities to utilise and further enhance your clinical skills and experience.

We also offer opportunities to work within our Staff Bank.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further information.

Our Podiatry Service provides specialist care for patients who are at moderate or high risk of developing foot complications, as well as those experiencing active ulceration. These patients often present with complex clinical conditions, requiring advanced assessment, treatment and ongoing management.

In this role, your clinical expertise will have a direct impact on patient outcomes by enabling individuals to remain safely in their own homes, reducing the need for emergency or acute hospital admissions, and supporting them to maintain mobility, independence and quality of life.

Everything we do is guided by our Trust values:

Compassionate Care | Working Together | Achieving Ambitions | Delivering Excellence

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ candidates. Reasonable adjustments will be supported throughout the recruitment process.

Please note: This vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received. Early application is therefore encouraged.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Registration

Essential: - Podiatrist registered with the health care professions council

Qualification

Essential: - Degree

Continual Personal Development

Essential: - Evidence of CPD