Foot Protection Lead
| Posting date: | 24 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | Abingdon, OX14 1AG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9267-25-1535 |
Summary
Part-time and job share, as well as full time opportunities are available and applications are invited from motivated BSc qualified and HCPC registered podiatrists with NHS experience who are keen to advance their clinical, professional and leadership skills. In this role you will be responsible for delivering a high quality, accessible and timely evidence based clinical pathway for patients, supporting your local community podiatry team with high risk/wound clinics. You will provide clinical leadership to that clinical pathway and take responsibility in educating colleagues and training staff with your specialist knowledge. You will help lead on the training of Apprentice Podiatrists, Podiatry assistants and mentoring newly qualified clinicians as well as students on placement. You will be an excellent communicator, able to work independently, organised, and confident. This post is based around Oxfordshire, and the post holder will also be required to visit patients homes, attend meetings or training across the wider county. Own car is essential. We value our employees health and well-being and operate on a nine-day fortnight working pattern which entitles staff to a day off every other week. As a department we also welcome other flexible working applications. We also hope to be able to offer a relocation allowance incentive to recruit to this post. So, if you are looking for a challenging, varied, and flexible role that allows you to fully utilise your expert clinical and leadership skills then we would like to hear from you. We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.