Job summary
- Main area
- Head & Neck, Orthopaedic and Reconstructive Services L3
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 328-HNO-6263849
- Employer
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The James Cook University Hospital
- Town
- Middlesbrough
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Orthoptist
Band 5
Job overview
We are expanding and now is the time to come and join our team. Are you motivated & driven to deliver excellence in clinical care? Then we want to hear from you.
We are looking to appoint 2 full-time band 5 Orthoptists to come and join South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is a perfect job for new graduates.
The post will be based at The James Cook University Hospital with sessions undertaken each week at our satellite clinic at Low Grange, Middlesbrough, with other team members.
Main duties of the job
As a newly qualified Orthoptist you will be guided on your way as an autonomous practitioner, the post holder will provide high-quality, advanced specialised orthoptic assessment, diagnosis, and treatment as part of a busy multidisciplinary ophthalmology team across South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and various satellite sites.
The post holder will work both as an autonomous practitioner as well as part of the ophthalmology team including orthoptists, optometrists, ophthalmologists, ophthalmic technicians, and nurses, providing orthoptic practice to both paediatric and adult patients, including those with complex conditions.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become one of the first acute hospital trusts in England since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to achieve a rating increase to ‘good’ from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for the care it delivers to patients and service users.
Recently rated as one of the best in the country for patient safety and one of the top 40 hospitals by CHKS for the tenth year running, the Trust is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in England. Working in the Northeast offers an excellent quality of life. This area boasts great transport links with easy access to a beautiful coastline/countryside and a great range of local amenities.
Working for our organisation
Recently rated as one of the best in the country for patient safety and one of the top 40 hospitals by CHKS for the tenth year running, the Trust is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in England. Working in the Northeast offers an excellent quality of life. This area boasts great transport links with easy access to a beautiful coastline/countryside and a great range of local amenities.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:
- Explore leadership within the NHS
- Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
- Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
- Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of current practice and techniques
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Ability to make clinical decisions autonomously to best meet patient needs, available evidence and service needs
- IT skills - use of Microsoft office i.e excel, outlook, powerpoint & word
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of relevant appropriate national guidance e.g. NICE guidance
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/diploma in Orthoptics
- HCPC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of current practice and techniques
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Appropriate clinical experience and competence in relevant clinical setting which equips the post-holder to work in a clinical role
Desirable criteria
- Ability to design & follow policies and procedures as set by the Trust and department
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with patients and other professionals. Ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of patients and carers/relatives. Demonstrates flexibility and ability to digress & adapt from current plans
- Good planning & organisational skills and good time management
- Being able to make judgements relating to diagnosis
- Organises own workload and appointments
- Able to carry out straightforward tasks
- Manual dexterity in the use of Orthoptic equipment
- Observe patient confidentiality, teamwork, self-motivated, mature and clinically experienced
- Ability to work single-handed
- Demonstrates self-awareness of own role & levels of competence and awareness of responsibilities within a team
Desirable criteria
- Computing skills for audit, research etc
- Ability to use own judgements to aid in the development of the service
- Ability to travel to other locations, as required
- Ability to make decisions that will not cause any adverse situations at a later date
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
- Esther Copping
- Job title
- Deputy Head Orthoptist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01642 850850
- Additional information
Mr Jerry Tatton, Head of Orthoptics on 01642 835679
Esther Copping, Deputy Head on 01642 850850 ext. 34810
or alternatively email [email protected] or [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
The Recruitment Team
The Murray Building
The James Cook University Hospital
TS4 3BW
- Telephone
- 01642 850850, ext. 57396
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