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Newcastle Eye Centre continually improves how it offers high quality services for patients and excellent career satisfaction for its staff.

Our visionary approach includes working closely with our consultant colleagues and other eye professionals to ensure we can provide healthcare at its best with people at our heart and we would love to hear from those who share our vision of collaborative working.

Our Orthoptic Department are delighted to be in a position to seek an Orthoptist to join the large team at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. We have a diverse clinical workload including paediatrics, adult motility, neuro-ophthalmology, thyroid and oculo-plastics in both community and hospital settings as well as involvement in pre-school orthoptic assessment clinics.

Such a comprehensive range of services means we are in the enviable position of being able to offer opportunities for training and development in specific areas of interest, according to service need, plus exceptional opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD) as we seek to ensure every member of our staff is provided with the relevant training and support needed to liberate their potential.

Other duties include provision of post graduate training across a wide range of disciplines including Orthoptic under-graduates, pre-registration Optometrists, nursing staff, and junior medical staff preparing for Royal College of Ophthalmologists exams and participation in clinical and medical audit and research.

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• To assess and diagnose adult and paediatric cases registered within Orthoptics/Ophthalmology
• Create and deliver specialised individual treatment programmes as agreed with the client
• To work within the Directorate of Ophthalmology, a teaching facility and tertiary referral centre for patients with complex eye problems
• To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team in a supported environment
• Responsible for patients undergoing orthoptic treatment as in-patients or out-patients and to liaise with experienced orthoptists regarding problems arising
• To individually and/or in conjunction with colleagues, formulate individualised treatment plans for children and adults attending routine and specialist clinics
• Generate comprehensive patient records to reflect the Trust standard
• Provide advice to patients/carers regarding care and treatment
• Incorporate research-based evidence into orthoptic practice
• Work within the scope and code of professional practice
• Observe clinical guidelines and work within specific protocols where appropriate

Interview Date Monday, 24 June 2024

37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.