Job overview

University Hospitals Dorset is newly formed by a merger of Poole Hospital and Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals partnered with Bournemouth University. RBH is the designated major acute and emergency hospital in Dorset housing the Eye Centre where the posts are mainly based, and Poole Hospital is the major planned care hospital.

Enjoying all that Dorset has to offer you will be part of a friendly, cohesive, and enthusiastic ophthalmology department, passionate about teaching and providing excellent care. We are equipped with the latest technology in our purpose-built Eye Centre with 4 eye theatres, eye wards, outpatients and eye emergency department. We have established a pioneering technician lead diagnostic Hub at the Dorset Health Village Poole and provide outreach clinics in the surrounding areas. Bournemouth is a vibrant university town attracting British and overseas students.

 Applicants should be able to fit into a friendly, cohesive and enthusiastic unit. They will be expected to contribute to the general ophthalmology service and emergency eye care service. Further speciality interests could be developed depending on the successful candidates training / aspirations. They should have a desire to teach and will be expected to participate in clinical audit and governance. They will be required to be involved Quality Improvement and audit programmes and work in a multidisciplinary team.

The post is for 12 months fixed term

Main duties of the job

You will be applying to join a team of 13 consultants covering all subspecialties, 3 associate specialists, 4 Trust grade doctors and 6 Wessex Deanery specialist registrars. Optometrists, Orthoptists, Nurse specialists and technician specialists

Participation in the 1 in 8 second on-call rota is essential.

Applications are invited for the post of Clinical Fellow Ophthalmologist within the general ophthalmology service.  It will involve General ophthalmology, emergency and medical retinal clinics. It will involve some intravitreal injections and access to cataract surgery training if appropriate.

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications

Working for our organisation

RBH is located on the south coast, close to the New Forest in the east and the Jurassic coastline in the west. This is a major tourist area and during the summer months over one million holidaymakers visit Bournemouth including substantial numbers of foreign language students. The fluctuating population, three time’s greater growth than the average for England and Wales, and the high proportion of elderly present special issues for health care.  

Eye Unit 

This purpose built unit opened in April 2000 and includes 9 bed inpatient ward (including 3 paediatric beds) together with Eye Theatres, Outpatient Department which includes One Stop Cataract Clinic and Glaucoma Clinics. We have established a streamlined investigations facility in Poole which allows for virtual clinics in both macular and glaucoma in addition to expanded cataract assessment facilities. Almost 34,000 patients per year are seen in eye clinics and a further 10,500 benefited from urgent or emergency treatment. Surgeons in the Eye Unit perform around 4500 cataract operations every year.