Advanced Clinical Practitioner Podiatrist | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 February 2026 |
| Location: | Brighton, BN2 3EW |
| Company: | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7709192/150-CP2321-PC |
Summary
Shape the Future of Podiatric Care
Are you ready to lead, innovate, and make a real difference? We’re looking for an exceptional Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) Podiatrist to join our forward-thinking team and help us deliver outstanding care to some of our most complex and high-risk patients.
This is more than a job – it’s an opportunity to develop and shape the ACP role within Podiatry, working alongside an established ACP and a team of highly specialist podiatrists. You’ll collaborate across community, domiciliary, and acute settings, where your expertise will make a real impact on patient outcomes.
As an ACP, you’ll operate with a high level of autonomy and clinical authority, making complex decisions that improve outcomes and set new standards of excellence. Your role will span the four pillars of advanced practice:
•Clinical Excellence – delivering expert assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for challenging cases.
•Leadership & Management – shaping clinical pathways and guiding the podiatry team.
•Education – inspiring and developing the next generation of clinicians.
•Research & Innovation – driving evidence-based improvements in care and promoting research within the service.
You’ll work independently, applying advanced clinical reasoning while being supported by a highly skilled team.
Act as a recognised expert in Podiatry within the multidisciplinary team.
Manage a specialist caseload of complex and chronic patients using advanced diagnostic and treatment skills.
Provide clinical leadership, supervision, and mentorship across the Podiatry Service.
Develop and implement clinical pathways, protocols, and standards of care.
Lead evidence-based projects, audits, and research to drive service improvement.
Deliver training and education to colleagues and students, promoting best practice.
Developmental ACP Role
We recognise that not everyone will have completed their MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice. If you are working towards your ACP qualification or aspire to do so, we welcome applications for a Band 7/8a developmental ACP role. In this pathway, you’ll receive structured support, mentorship, and opportunities to progress into a full ACP position.
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?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• 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.
• To develop excellent communication and productive working partnerships, working collaboratively with the General Manager, Clinical Services Manager, Professional Lead, Team Leads, Clinical Specialist Podiatrists, Consultants, GPs, and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively, supporting and facilitating links and good working partnerships with colleagues within Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, and with other system pathway links in our locality, including our Acute NHS Trust partners.
• To be a recognised expert in the field of Podiatry practice within the multidisciplinary team, working within your own professional framework and national Podiatric guidelines.
• To use advanced clinical skills, taking responsibility for the assessment and on-going care of a specialist caseload of patients who may have complex and/or chronic presentation, where appropriate, in discussion with the multidisciplinary team.
• To utilise highly specialist assessment skills and diagnostic medical investigations to determine clinical diagnosis and formulate treatment plans. This requires Advanced Practice skills that are beyond the usual scope of practice, utilising postgraduate qualifications and highly advanced clinical skills.
• Provide highly specific guidance to clinical colleagues around therapeutic and antibiotic management and stewardship where required.
• To develop & implement protocols, clinical pathways, procedures and standards of care within the Podiatry service, consulting with colleagues in the design and following national and local policies and procedures.
• To demonstrate measurable clinical effectiveness, using nationally and locally agreed methodology, in the care and support of Podiatric patients receiving treatments in the community and acute setting.
• In collaboration with the Clinical Services Manager, Professional Lead, and clinical leads, to assist in the clinical development of staff in specialist area, and other staff working in associated services as required.
There is a support structure for Advanced Clinical Practitioners within SCFT and the post holder will have the chance to interact with others from different services and teams. The role of Advanced Clinical Practitioner within the Community Podiatry Service requires analysis and synthesis of complex problems across a range of settings, enabling innovative solutions to enhance people's experience and improve outcomes.
This advert closes on Monday 19 Jan 2026