Overview
Contract Type: Part time – 9.5 hours per week (8:00am – 6:00pm)
Salary: £50,008 – £56,908 pa, inc. HCAS, pro rata
Partner Org: Ashford & St. Peter’s Hospital Foundation Trust
Job overview
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Ophthalmology Department is looking for a part-time Clinical Optometrist. This post is to support the Paediatric Ophthalmology service.
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals (ASPH) is the largest provider of acute hospital services to Surrey residents, serving a population of over 410,000 people living in the boroughs of Runnymede, Spelthorne, Woking and parts of Elmbridge, Hounslow, Surrey Heath and beyond. The Trust’s two main sites are Ashford Hospital and St. Peter’s Hospital. Day case surgery takes place in dedicated theatres at Ashford Hospital, with Paediatric and other selected surgeries at St Peter’s Hospital. We are a forward-looking department with a team of 19 medical staff, including 1 with an interest in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Ocular Motility.
We have the benefit of state-of-the-art ophthalmic imaging systems, including OCT and FFA imaging and a digital surveillance centre at Ashford Hospital, which has allowed us to transform our pathways. We have an excellent multidisciplinary team that works closely together to meet service and client requirements and is continually looking for opportunities to deliver better treatments in innovative ways.
Main duties of the job
The primary role will be to support the refraction service for Paediatric patients. This will be an important contribution towards maintaining eye health and vision development in our most vulnerable and young patients.
Working for our organisation
Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey, and St Peter’s, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals, and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments section on this page. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are, along with the criteria that are required for the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered with the General Optical Council (GOC)
- BSc Optometry
- MCOptom
Desirable criteria
- Further post-graduate optometry qualification relating to a highly specialist aspect of clinical optometry
- Independent Prescriber
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience in Optometry
- Good planning skills and the ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to actively participate in departmental clinical education and teaching ,and practical optometry skills
- Good knowledge of slit lamp examination techniques, including use of the 90D fundoscopy lens
Desirable criteria
- Experience working with children, including children with learning disabilities, visual impairment and special needs
- Experience in working in extended optometry roles and shared care clinics
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