Job summary
- Main area
- Oculoplastics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 5 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 434-MSCC-298
- Employer
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Buckinghamshire
- Town
- Buckinghamshire
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/09/2024
Employer heading
Consultant Ophthalmologist with special interest in Oculoplastics
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
- provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
- nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
This is a substantive post as a Consultant Ophthalmologist with a special interest in Oculoplastics. The post will complement existing sub-specialist ophthalmic services led by a team of 17 consultants.
The post-holder will work with the Oculoplastics Lead to deliver general and sub speciality oculoplastic and lacrimal services for Buckinghamshire (500,000) The post holder will have clinical sessions at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and its outreach services. There is a strong interest in Thyroid Eye Disease and the department has good collaborations with dermatology (Moh’s service).
A 5 programmed activities (PAs) job plan is envisaged, incorporating a balance of outpatient and theatre sessions. The successful candidate will be expected to play an active role in the running of the service. They will also be expected to participate in the workload of the hospital and to be capable of running theatre lists and clinics independently and to work to a flexible timetable that may include provision of services across sites. Participation in teaching, audit and administration will be expected.
Planned AAC Interview Date is Wednesday 11th September 2024
Main duties of the job
The key duties and responsibilities are: -
· Specialist Oculoplastics Services
· General Ophthalmology responsibilities on call
· Outpatient clinics at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Wycombe/Amersham General Hospital (space dependent)
· Operating
· Teaching of Oxford deanery trainees and medical students
· Other care of inpatients or outpatients
· Clinical and other administration as required by agreement
· Teaching and training of junior staff and undergraduates
· Participation in Clinical Governance
Working for our organisation
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
- As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
- We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
- Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Ophthalmic unit serves a population of around 1 million people mainly from Aylesbury Vale in Buckinghamshire, but including parts of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.
The unit is run from a purpose-built new building (the Mandeville Wing) which opened 12 years ago as well as sites at Wycombe and Amersham hospitals nearby. They are fully equipped with modern out-patient facilities including clinic rooms, Orthoptic and Optometric departments, visual fields, Argon, YAG and SLT lasers, Electro-diagnostics and a fully linked imaging suite which has anterior and posterior segment imaging including OCT, Fundus photography, Fluorescein and ICG angiography and auto-fluorescence imaging as well as Wavefront analysis.
A 24-hour emergency clinic sees around 15,000 patients per year. The main hospital sites house MRI, CT and Ultra-sound imaging.
The Consultant body covers most sub-specialty areas with little need for onward referral except in complex tertiary cases for which links with Oxford and Moorfields are readily available.
The unit sees around 50,000 out-patients per year at Stoke Mandeville site and a further 24,000 at Wycombe and Amersham sites.
There are around 6,400 operations per year in three dedicated eye theatres, and a separate cataract theatre unit for appropriate high-volume surgery. Most surgery is day-cases, but some inpatient cases are performed.
The delivery unit has a General Manager, Service Manager and an accountant and is part of the Surgical Directorate.
Regular weekly teaching is held in conjunction with the Oxford Eye Hospital and research and audit projects are actively encouraged.
Microsurgical skills teaching and training is a strength of the unit and as well as having a well-established skills centre which has just been updated and the unit has an EyeSi surgical simulator.
The trust supports remote working where possible and appropriate e.g. for meetings, SPA and DCC admin activities.
Time off in lieu will be supported, e.g. such as with unforeseen emergency work overnight.
If mentoring is required, this is something that the department will actively support and facilitate.
Eight medical secretaries and one support secretary work within the department and support the consultants. Remote working is well-supported by the Trust.
Full job description is attached.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- MB, BS or equivalent GMC registrable qualifications
- General training in Ophthalmology to CCT / CESR level with postgraduate qualification in ophthalmology FRCOphth or equivalent
- Registration on GMC Specialist Register in Ophthalmology OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview (CESR must already be held if that is the route by which specialist registration was achieved)
- Recognised Higher degree
- Recognised Fellowship (level 4 training) in oculoplastics
Experience
Essential criteria
- Appropriate training in Ophthalmology with additional training in Oculoplastics to specialist level
- Training to specialist level in Oculoplastics
- Evidence of executive decision-making at consultant level
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of consultant
- Evidence for surgical and clinical skills in Ophthalmic surgery to undertake a consultant role
- Good personal and interpersonal skills
- Good spoken and written English
- Communication skills should be highly developed
- Experience of teaching doctors-in-training and undergraduates
- Experience of clinical audit
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- GMC Registration
- Able to travel to and between sites
Trust 'CARE' Values
Essential criteria
- Collaborate - Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
- Aspire - Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
- Respect - Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued
- Enable - Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Miss Fiona Jazayeri
- Job title
- Consultant Ophthalmologist & Oculoplastics Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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