Job summary
Do you want to work in one of the nation's areas of outstanding natural beauty, delivering care with the scenic Lake District Fells as your back drop? Not only that, the North Cumbria Podiatry Department have been shortlisted for the CAHPO awards 2025 for digital innovation.

North Cumbria Podiatry team are looking to recruit B5 podiatrist.

The Podiatry Department provides a comprehensive service to patients throughout North Cumbria. As a band 5 podiatrist you will be given the opportunity to enhance your clinical skills and knowledge to improve patient care, through a robust preceptorship/induction programme. You will work alongside a friendly, welcoming and supportive team, dedicated to learning and improving, where everyone's voice counts.

The successful candidate will demonstrate interpersonal and organisational skills, alongside a good sense of humour and team focused.

The Department has a good skill mix including advanced and specialist Podiatrists, Podiatry assistants and administrative staff. Currently we maintain high risk, biomechanics and nail surgery caseloads. As a Podiatrist you treat a variety of podiatric problems and provide foot health education to patients and other stakeholders.

Opportunities to develop skills and knowledge are available by our close links with the multi-disciplinary diabetic foot team and North Cumbria MSK service.

If this sounds like your ideal role, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

• To work with individuals, families, carers, communities, Primary Healthcare Teams and other agencies to undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients / service users in order to inform a personalised plan of care / intervention.
• To triage, screen, assess, diagnosis and treat a number of podiatric conditions including the high risk foot, nail surgery and biomechanics.
• To formulate and deliver individual treatment plans for a number of foot conditions using holistic assessment, reasoning and treatments based on evidence based practice, and within specified scope of practice and skill level.
• To evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes within scope of practice and skill level, using an accepted and appropriate range of techniques as required.
• To follow treatments plans for foot ulceration, utilising digital technologies including electronic patient records and wound care applications.
• To understand escalation points for patients presenting with complex conditions outside the scope of practice, including deteriorating or stagnating foot ulcers to a senior podiatrist.
• To prioritise foot and/or medical problems, intervening appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
• To identify when patients need interventions from other services and initiate timely and onward referrals.

About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Details
Date posted: 29 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Per Annum Pro Rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Compressed hours, Term time hours, Annualised hours
Reference number: 262-A-26-8327360
Closing date: 12 November 2026

Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

The Trust will provide a twelve month preceptorship period for New to registration Nurses Midwives and Allied Health Professionals.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Benefits

• 27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
• Flexible working Scheme
• NHS Discounts*
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*
• Excellent opportunities for development*
• Competitive NHS Pension scheme
• Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Person Specification
Qualifications (Essential)

• Degree or working toward (final year of study) qualification in Podiatric Medicine.
• Local anaesthesia certificate.
• HCPC registration (or working toward).

Knowledge & Experience
Essential

• Broad knowledge of routine and high-risk patient care.
• Experience in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of a variety of foot conditions.
• Knowledge of disease pathologies that affect foot health.

Desirable

• Experience working in the NHS.
• Experience in electronic health care systems e.g. EMiS web.
• Knowledge of national and Royal College of Podiatry clinical guidelines
• Experience in delivering foot health education/promotion of the at risk foot.

Skills and aptitudes
Essential

• Manual dexterity for the use of surgical instruments, including scalpels and needles
• Perform, analyse and interpret various assessments and develop treatment plans within scope of practice.
• Good oral and written communication skills based on fluency on the English language.
• Be able to work in restricted positions including domiciliary visits
• Remain calm while under pressure.
• Work independently to manage own time and caseload.
• Be able to work unsupervised but as part of a team to prioritise tasks.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues, other health care professional's carers and patients
• To have good organisational and timekeeping skills

Desirable

• Able to adapt to change and resolve problems.
• Good presentation skills.

Personal circumstances (Essential)

• Self motivated

Other requirements (Essential)

• Be able to travel independently across North Cumbria as required.
• Have a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and occupational health check.

Employer details
Employer name: North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Podiatry Workington hospital, park lane, Workington, CA14 2RW, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.ncic.nhs.uk/

Contact
For questions about the job, contact: Lorraine Sowerby, team lead, Lorraine.sowerby@ncic.nhs.uk, 07966715678

Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.