Job summary
- Main area
- Orthoptics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (Job share acceptable)
- Job ref
- 357-PR-037-25-VCP6
- Employer
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pilgrim Hospital Boston
- Town
- Boston
- Salary
- £23,074 - £26,404 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Lead Optometrist
NHS AfC: Band 7
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So, what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there is more.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
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Job overview
Do you want to help take forward the Optometry Service at Pilgrim Hospital and our surrounding hospitals at ULTH? Are you dynamic and passionate about your profession and the impact it has on the wider community?
If so then, this is the job for you!
Main duties of the job
Responsible to : Head Orthoptist,
You will be leading the Optometry service at PHB and be responsible for planning and introducing new systems to help deliver a better, more streamlined service whilst keeping the patient at the heart of everything you do.
You will be responsible for the paediatric Optometry service.
You will also be responsible for promoting the service to make it attractive to potential applicants.
Working for our organisation
You will be working as part of the Orthoptic services and in a team consisting of 6 Orthoptists, 2 Orthoptic assistants .
We are a friendly and welcoming team who strive to do the best for our patients whilst looking to the future and developing our roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Refraction and fundus checks in Paediatrics
Promoting Optometry services to attract candidates to work at ULTH
Teaching of medical students as well as Orthoptic students and Pre reg optometrists
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree/Diploma in Optometry
- • Registration with the GOC
Desirable criteria
- • Accredited teaching qualification
- Competencies in Glaucoma
- Masters/PHD in Optometry
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience with highly complex paediatric cases
- • Managerial experience, clinical/administrative duties
- • Unsupervised work
- • Evidence of Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- • Previous work with students/ mentorship
- • Special needs
- • Participation in department research and audit
- • Service development
- Experience of working with Stroke patients
- Experience with glaucoma patients
Knowledge, skills, aptitudes
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrate flexible approach to care.
- • Effective Communication
- • Ability to work in multi skilled environment
- • Supports , initiates change to promote development of self others and department
- • Reflective practice
- • Promotes discussion and evaluation of clinical practice initiating change where appropriate
- • Prioritise workload
- • Computer literate
- Awareness and Knowledge of the dignity in care agenda
- Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework
Desirable criteria
- • Negotiation skills
- • Identifies and facilitates training needs of self and others
- • Knowledge of finance and Budgeting
Specific Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- • Ability to service peripheral outpatient clinics and wards
- • Undertake self directed study to expand knowledge base
Desirable criteria
- • Participates in service development
- • Participates in network development
- • Represents profession outside of own area
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
- Alison Leak
- Job title
- Head Orthoptist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01205 446474
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