Band 7 Specialist Wound Care Podiatrist | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting time to join Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest NHS Trusts in the UK, providing care to over 1.6 million people annually across Barnet, Chase Farm, and the Royal Free Hospital.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 7 Specialist Wound Care Podiatrist to join our Hampstead team. This is an excellent opportunity to deliver high-quality, evidence-based wound care within a supportive multidisciplinary environment.

You will assess and manage complex foot wounds, including those related to diabetes, vascular disease, and infection. Working closely with vascular, diabetes, and infectious diseases teams, you will support integrated care and improved outcomes.

The role includes contributing to clinical practice development, mentoring junior staff and students, and participating in service development, audit, and quality improvement.

The successful candidate will demonstrate Trust values, strong clinical decision-making, and significant wound care experience, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively. Commitment to innovation and professional development is essential.

If you meet the criteria, we welcome your application:

To work as a member of an acute foot multidisciplinary team based at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
To provide a highly specialised wound care assessment within the outpatients, inpatients, and emergency care settings. Patients will include those with long term conditions, such as diabetes and renal disease. Patients may also be very complex with multiple co-morbidities.
To formulate a clinical diagnosis and treatment plan as an autonomous practitioner.
To use clinical judgement and discretion in the advanced assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with complex pathologies, which puts them at increased risk of amputation, morbidity and mortality.
To provide advanced wound care techniques in their practice, including casting, negative pressure wound therapy and larval therapy.
To work towards achieving competencies in advanced, specialised care, such as independent prescribing.
To mentor students, and supervise, teach and appraise junior podiatrists.
To share the responsibility for operational management of the podiatry department, participate in service development, and participate in evidence-based projects.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

Therapy Services has a high profile within the Trust, being firmly committed to quality improvement, audit, service evaluation and improvement. We undertake yearly presentations of our achievements for the year; undertaking PDSA and QI projects to ensure we are delivering the most effective, safe and high quality service.

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This advert closes on Thursday 4 Jun 2026