Podiatry Assistant | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The podiatry service are seeking ideally an experienced HCA or care worker to join us whilst a member of our team is on maternity leave.

The role will assist our podiatrists in clinic and also do some redressing under delegation.

This role will include clinics at Colchester, Clacton and Harwich as well as assisting on home visits, therefore a car driver and access to a vehicle is required.

Our services sees patients of all ages for a variety of foot conditions including, but not limited to diabetes, vascular issues, wounds, musculoskeletal issues, ingrowing nails.

This is a fixed term position until 31st May 20027 to cover maternity leave.

Our service operates Monday to Friday only, so no weekend of bank holiday working. You should be a driver or have access to a car.

Proposed interview date

13th August 2026

The assistant role will provide essential support with basic clinical tasks, patient related administration, and other tasks to assist the clinicians within the podiatry service to provide clinical care.

Assistants will be an integral part of the podiatry team tasks may include

· To work closely with the Podiatry Team during Nail Surgery Clinics – assisting in clinic.

· Carry out redressing under delegation with a podiatrist on site to review patient if needed.

· Assist with short return clinics

· Taking photographs of wounds and uploading them to the patient record.

· Assist on home visits

· Stock management and ordering

· Arranging periodic reviews

· Preparing dressings boxes for podiatry clinics

· Management and tracking of equipment availability.

· Working closely with the Admin teams, including appointment booking, accepting referrals and possible reception cover.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Monday 27 Jul 2026