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Pre registration optometrist
NHS AfC: Band 4
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Trosolwg o'r swydd
This is a fixed term 13 month contract as a Pre Registration Optometrist at Oxford Eye Hospital. The role will involve working, under supervision from experienced supervisors, in all core areas of Optometry ( refraction (paediatric cycloplegic and adult cases), specialist contact lens fitting, low vision assessment, optical dispensing, corneal topography, visual fields (Humphrey, Goldmann, Octopus) and colour vision assessment. The Optometry service has an in house spectacle dispensing service and you will be timetabled for sessions in Dispening alongside experienced Dispensing Opticians.
You will have observation sessions timetabled around the range of ophthalmology service clinics so that your training is consolidated. There is opportunity to attend the weekly regional ophthalmology teaching held within the Oxford Eye Hospital. As part of your year, a placement in private practice is organised for you to ensure that you achieve the caseload required to satisfy the sign off requirements of your training, and to give opportunity to examine cases within community optometry. We nuture our pre reg Optometrists allowing them to not only complete the scheme for registration but to become well rounded clinicians. Should an an opportunity for a permanent position become available we would encourage them to apply if appropriate.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
Our fixed term pre-registration optometrist post at Oxford Eye Hospital will run 4th August 2025 until 31st August 2026. We are looking for a candidate on track for a good BSc (Hons) degree in Optometry (2(i) or above). You will have a bright mind, caring attitude and a strong desire to pursue a long term career in hospital optometry. Oxford Eye Hospital is a busy teaching hospital, with Consultant Ophthalmologists across sub-specialities –vitro-retina, glaucoma, paediatric, neuro-ophthalmology, cornea, medical retina, oncology, genetics and oculo-plastics. The Department of Optometry as a team includes over 20 Optometrists, some part time, one pre -registration optometrist, Dispensing Opticians and a team of Optometric Technicians. Our optometrists work across many of these specialties. Our core clinical activities include refraction (paediatric cycloplegic and adult cases), specialist contact lens fitting, low vision assessment, optical dispensing, corneal topography, visual fields (Humphrey, Goldmann, Octopus) and colour vision assessment. You will have observation sessions timetabled around the range of ophthalmology service clinics so that your training is consolidated. There is opportunity to attend the weekly regional ophthalmology teaching held within the Oxford Eye Hospital. As part of your year, a placement in private practice is organised for you
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Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Oxford Eye Hospital is a busy teaching hospital, with Consultant Ophthalmologists across many sub-specialities. The Department of Optometry as a team includes over 20 Optometrists, some part time, one pre -registration optometrist, Dispensing Opticians and a team of ECLOs. Our optometrists work across many of these specialties as well as delivering Core Optometry.
Oxford is a beautiful historic city with excellent cultural, educational and recreational facilities. There is on site accommodation which is affordable and convenient for the duration of the pre reg year.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
See attached job description for more information:
To undertake core optometry services under clinical supervision. The level
of supervision will reduce during the term of the contract as the postholder
gains experience and is expected to be guided by professional guidelines
and best practice. Core services include:
a. Routine refraction (including diagnostic and paediatric).
b. Routine, and ultimately complex, low vision clinics.
c. Complex medical contact lens fitting and aftercare management.
d. Imaging techniques such as corneal topography and optic nerve head
imaging.
e. Investigative techniques such as slit-lamp biomicroscopy and indirect
ophthalmoscopy to examine optometry patients including those not
under ophthalmology review, to monitor/screen for ocular diseases
such as age-related macula degeneration, glaucoma and diabetic
retinopathy.
To plan and implement individual patient care pathways and refer
patients back to the care of the ophthalmologist when changes/new
pathology is detected/suspected
f. Colour vision assessment.
g. Visual fields assessment and other psychophysical assessments of
visual function.
h. Routine and complex spectacle dispensing service.
i. Liaison with medical staff and professionals from other disciplines
(e.g. Social and Health Care and charities such as RNIB and
Oxfordshire Association for the Blind) in co-ordinating patient care
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Meini prawf hanfodol
- Meets Essential Critera
- Partly Meets Essential Criteria
- Does not meet Essential Criteria
Meini prawf dymunol
- Meets desirable criteria
- partially meets desirable criteria
- Does not need desirable criteria
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
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- Teitl y swydd
- Deputy Head optometrist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
Rhestr swyddi gyda Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust yn Gwasanaethau gwyddor iechyd neu bob sector