Job summary
- Main area
- Orthoptist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 820-6755014-CF
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hall Green Health Centre
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 7 Advanced Specialist Community Orthoptist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Band 7 Part time Advanced Specialist Community Orthoptist
An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced Orthoptist to join the Paediatric Eye Service team. This community-based Eye Department allows a unique opportunity to gain experience within a culturally and socially diverse area.
You would be a key member of a small team of 4/5 Orthoptists, an Optometrist and a team administrator, who work together to deliver care to the children across the south Birmingham area.
Main duties of the job
Work in accordance with HCPC Code of Professional Practice and British and Irish
Orthoptic Society Competency Standards and Professional Practice Guidelines.
As an autonomous practitioner, will be legally, professionally and solely responsible for comprehensive investigative, diagnostic and therapeutic orthoptic procedures. This requires accuracy, acute observations and dexterity whilst working within established protocols.
Be responsible for organising own personal diary to cover the service to mainstream schools, special schools, Child Development Centers, Health Centre clinical sessions, meetings and CPD.
Communicate effectively and responsibly.
Relationships with school nurses, SENCOs, DSLs, Community Paediatricians and others
To assess squints pre-operatively, discuss surgical management options, post operative risks and prognosis prior to referral to Consultant Ophthalmologist,
Adhere to Trust policies and National guidance.
Working for our organisation
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications / training
Essential criteria
- BSc (Orthoptics), or BMed (Orthoptics) or Diploma Of British Orthoptics
- Registration with the Health Care Professions Council
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Tutor/Teaching qualification
- Medicine Exemptions for orthoptists
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive orthoptic experience. Significant paediatric experience, including: Clinical assessment of children of all ages with or without special needs
- Experience in school vision screening or equivalent
- Experience of autonomous working
- Experience of managing a specialised complex and diverse workload, independently
- Experience of analysing data, collecting outcomes and auditing effectiveness of provision
Skills/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate clearly and sensitively information that may be upsetting or difficult to accept
- Able to communicate advanced clinical information simply and clearly, ensuring full understanding and encouraging acceptance and compliance.
- Will sometimes need to advise parents/carers about sight-threatening (and rarely life-threatening) eye problems
- Able to communicate with children with and without special educational needs and when English is not the first language
- Demonstrates ability to work independently and to prioritise workload
- Ability to liaise and work with other professions and agencies
- Ability to analyse and interpret complicated situations and decide the option to achieve the best outcome where there may be conflicting interests or opinions
- Awareness of the implications of Education Health Care Plans of the children with special educational needs
Other Job requirments
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel to various locations
- Awareness of recent clinical development and professional issues
Desirable criteria
- Ability to work flexible hours
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
- Linda Pawelczyk
- Job title
- Service Clinical Manager/Professional Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07738 120708
- Additional information
Quinton Lane Care Centre
B32 2TR
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