Job summary
- Main area
- Optometry
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 15 hours per week (Full Time or Part Time hours available)
- Job ref
- 153-SU03444
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Bournemouth Hospital
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- pa/pro rata
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Optometrist
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for one or more enthusiastic and motivated part time Optometrists to join our friendly Ophthalmology department based mainly at Royal Bournemouth Hospital. Part time applications will be considered for a minimum of 1 days per week , so if you would like the challenge of Hospital Optometry and the support of the consultant ophthalmologists to improve your clinical practice this is the role for you.
The clinical workload will involve core clinics including the assessment of new and current patients attending the contact lens optometry service where we provide therapeutic contact lens fittings and aftercare for a wide variety of patients, and include paediatric refraction (both with and without cycloplegia) at RBH and possibly also off-site at our other local hospitals. On the job training and supervision will be provided. Specialist clinics utilising IP include Glaucoma clinics, macula clinics and working in the Eye Emergency Department.
Support to those wanting to undertake their IP qualification will also be given.
Base Location: Bournemouth
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, liaising closely with a team of four experienced Optometrists, Consultant Ophthalmologists, Orthoptists, Ophthalmic Nurses, Ophthalmic technicians and other support staff.
The successful post holder should have a BSc in Optometry and be registered with the General Optical Council. Experience in contact lens practice is desirable, and previous hospital optometry experience
would be advantageous but not essential. An Independent prescribing qualification is advantageous, but not essential.
Base location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GOC Registration
- Experience with Contact lens – competent in soft and RGP fitting and aftercare
Desirable criteria
- Experience in complex contact lens work in hospital contact lens clinics
- Experience in scleral contact lenses
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in paediatric eye care - competent in cycloplegic and non-cycloplegic retinoscopy
Desirable criteria
- Experience in hospital paediatric ophthalmology clinics
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential criteria
- Extended role skills, examples as appropriate to role
- Problem solving skills
- Planning and prioritisation skills
- Computer literacy particularly working with e.g. excel spreadsheets and access databases including IT Systems
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience in full range of optometry roles
Desirable criteria
- Qualifications in extended roles – glaucoma, macula, IP
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
- 0300 019 6047
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