Job summary
- Main area
- Optometry
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6-8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 432-HR237-24
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ipswich Hospital
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- Starting salary dependent on experience and qualifications
- Closing
- 19/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Optometrist
NHS AfC: Band 6-8a
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
We are offering exciting opportunity for a highly experience Optometrist to join our team in an advanced clinical optometrist role.
You will join a multidisciplinary team to provide high quality ophthalmic care for the patients of Suffolk and surrounding areas.
As an advanced clinical optometrist you will have significant previous experience delivering sub speciality ophthalmology care and will be an independent prescriber on the General Optical Council Speciality register. You will be delivering independent Ophthalmology and Optometry clinics as well as supporting training and education within the department and the wider optometry community.
For candidates with less experience and post graduate qualifications, we would welcome an application to join the team in a developmental position, starting at either Band 6 or 7 depending on previous qualifications and experience. Progression through salary bands will depend on achievement of both clinical competency and post graduate qualifications.
We are fully committed to support the successful applicant to develop knowledge, skills and achieve competence.
Main duties of the job
To act as an autonomous advanced clinical practitioner providing high quality, individualised clinical management for
patients using advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to determine and initiate changes to treatment as necessary.
- To provide a range of extended specialist role services.
- Working as an autonomous registered practitioner with significant experience in an ophthalmology extended role providing high quality, individualised clinical management for patients using advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to determine and initiate changes to treatment as necessary.
- Act as a specialist clinical expert in direct contact care, able to make high level skills decisions, informed by advanced history taking, diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills. To be responsible and accountable for own decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice
- To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients resulting in the safe management of patients, autonomously formulate appropriate management plans for patients
- Use highly developed technical skills to provide specialist ocular treatments such as YAG laser and SLT
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of own level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information
Working for our organisation
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 that Time Matters to 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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifcations
Essential criteria
- GOC registration
Desirable criteria
- Independent Prescribing /speciality registration
- Post Graduate Certificate or higher qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post Qualification expereince in primary or secondary care
Desirable criteria
- Complex contact lens fitting experience
- Previous Hospital Optometry experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Williams
- Job title
- Head Optometrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01473 703232
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