Job summary
- Main area
- Orthoptist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 153-SU03432
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- UHD (RBH and PGH)
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- pa/pro rata
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Head Orthoptist
Band 7
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
Are you looking for a Deputy Head Role (Band 7) with a specialist area of refraction? Working in a united team of Orthoptists, Optometrists and Ophthalmologists in one of the most beautiful parts of the country?
You will join a team of 6 Orthoptists, 5 Optometrists, and 15 Consultants - several of which have a specific interest in Paediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro and adult motility, and Oculoplastics. This role will involve performing refractions in joint clinics (under the heading of the paediatric consultants), and responsibility for audit of this paediatric refraction service.
You will join a busy team working across the 2 main hospital sites, treating the full Orthoptic caseload. You will have access to joint consultant, optometry and other specialised clinics, along with an extensive stroke service. We are currently developing an Orthoptist ACP role in paediatric ophthalmology, neurology and Emergency eye services. Experience in any extended roles would be beneficial, but not essential as training will be provided. We also provide significant support for the Stroke service both as inpatient and outpatients services, across both Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital.
Open to applications from experienced Orthoptists.
Base Location: Bournemouth
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
Full range of orthoptic services, including stand alone Orthoptic clinics, joint paediatric refraction and joint consultant ophthalmology clinics. Ocular motility and Thyroid clinics, and regular Orthoptic undergraduate clinical placements. The successful candidate will be required to work across these 2 hospitals, and possibly other community locations that we provide services for.
Car driver / owner essential
This location provides life by the sea, as well as other picturesque locations nearby such as the Jurassic coast and the New Forest
Rota: a 9 day fortnight available
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Cases of all ages, for orthoptic assessment , diagnosis and management and onward referral.
Assessment of Stroke patients.
Supervision as Lead Clinical Tutor for undergrad orthoptic students from UCL, Liverpool and Sheffield.
Supervision of all staff within orthoptic cost centre
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registration
- Member of BIOS
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience with full range of Orthoptic patient workload
Desirable criteria
- Experience in IVT / Botox extended roles
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
- Julie Dowdney
- Job title
- Head Orthoptist and Optometry Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03000196047
- Additional information
Additional contact information
Alternative contacts on 0300 019 4422
Henrietta Holmes-Smith [email protected]
Kimberley Grounds [email protected]
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