Team Leader / Highly Specialist Podiatrist – High Risk Care
We are seeking an experienced and motivated HCPC-registered Podiatrist to join our service as a Team Lead / High-Risk Foot Podiatrist. This exciting opportunity combines highly specialist clinical practice with operational leadership, enabling you to influence patient outcomes whilst supporting the delivery of high-quality podiatry services.
The post holder will provide clinical, professional and operational leadership within Oldham Podiatry Team whilst maintaining a specialist caseload of patients with complex foot conditions.
As an autonomous practitioner, the post holder will undertake advanced assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with complex lower limb and high-risk foot pathology, working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues to reduce the risk of ulceration, hospital admission and lower limb amputation.
The post holder will support the day-to-day management of the team, including workforce planning, staff deployment, waiting list management, performance monitoring, clinical governance and service improvement. Working collaboratively with Podiatry teams across the Northern Care Alliance, they will support service development and delivery of local and national standards.
The role also includes responsibility for staff supervision, recruitment, appraisal, education and development, whilst supporting innovation and service transformation to ensure safe, effective and patient-centred care.
