Trainee Podiatry Assistant

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The closing date is 14 January 2026

A new opportunity is now available for a motivated team player to join our staff. Comprehensive training will be offered in-house, accredited by the Royal College of Podiatry, leading to qualification as a podiatry assistant.

The opportunity to work in varied settings across the beautiful county of Derbyshire, including hospitals, health centres and patients’ homes. Our current vacancy is based in Amber Valley and Erewash.

The opportunity to provide a quality, good value service to a wide variety of patient types and develop working relationships with other services, trusts and our Podiatric Surgery team. This may include working with multi‑disciplinary teams in an acute trust.

An annual appraisal and personal development plan
. DCHS pledges to engage, involve and support staff to reach their full potential.

CPD arranged by the Podiatry Service in addition to the essential learning required by the trust.

To become part of our team
. To have involvement in team meetings and the opportunity to make valuable contributions to the team meetings, staff forums and via staff surveys and pulse checks.

If you are starting as a Band 2 assistant, it is anticipated that it will take approximately 2 years to get the career progression with training.

To provide and undertake programmes of podiatry care as delegated by a podiatrist to patients who have an assessed level of need.

Care will be provided in a range of community settings, some of which may be in isolation, but always within telephone contact of a senior qualified podiatrist.

• Health Centre Community Clinics
• GP Practice Clinics
• Hospital based Community Services
• Domiciliary Visits
• Hospital Ward visits
• Physical/Mental Health/Learning Difficulties

To be part of a highly motivated team, providing a high standard of clinical care.

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people’s own homes and via virtual consultations.

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• Comparable competency based training
• NVQ based equivalent
• NVQ in customer care

• Basic knowledge of medical terminology
• Experience of working with people with a disability
• Experience of working in a team

• Good communication skills, written, verbal and non‑verbal
• Good command of English written and spoken
• Ability to understand issues relating to patient care, confidentiality, privacy and dignity
• Ability to recognise limitations of role as per agreed and defined professional and clinical parameters
• IT literate or willing to achieve in an agreed period
• Team player
• Able to work under pressure

• Able to travel as part of role
• Willingness to work flexible hours

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.

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT

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