Job summary
- Main area
- Optometrist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Job ref
- 273-DS-6820533
- Employer
- Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Moorfields at St. George's Hospital, Moorfields at Croydon University Hospital
- Town
- Croydon
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 Per Annum, Including HCAS, Pro Rata as Part Time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Optometrist - Part Time Permenant
Band 7
Moorfields - A global leader in Ophthalmology
We are Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Founded in 1804, Moorfields Eye Hospital is a world-class centre of excellence for eye health services, ophthalmic research, and education.
With more than 2,300 staff we are proud to be supported by one of the most diverse workforces in the NHS. Every year we treat more than 700,000 patients at City Road in central London and at our 22 satellites sites, and, in partnership with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre we lead one of the most impactful ophthalmic research programmes in the world.
We train many of the leading eye care clinicians in the UK and internationally and have a global reputation for quality and professionalism in ophthalmic care. In addition, we also operate commercial divisions that provide care to private patients in both London and the Middle East.
This is an exciting time to join Moorfields. The pandemic fast-tracked a huge amount of innovation which is changing the way we work and deliver care. Construction is under way on Oriel, our new eye care, research, and education centre being built in Camden. The new centre will be flexible and modern, enabling us to bring together healthcare, eye research and education under one roof for the first time.
If you want to be part delivering world class eye health services and you share our values: excellence, equity, and kindness, then we would love to hear from you!
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for specialist optometrists to join our optometry team in Moorfields South. There are a number of permanent sessional vacancies across St. George's and Croydon University Hospitals and across the working week in cataract, medical retina, external eye disease, paediatrics and core optometry services.
Moorfields Eye Hospital is a post-graduate teaching Hospital of international acclaim, dedicated to excellence in patient care, training and research. Our main site is at City Road, London but we have a large, and growing, number of interdisciplinary satellite clinics at which optometric services are provided.
The Optometry Department has expanded rapidly with increasing extended role activities across Moorfields’ sites. The Optometry Department has over 160 optometrists and provides clinical services for refraction, low vision assessment, medical contact lenses as well as extended role. We play a significant role in the training of ophthalmic professionals and in collaboration with UCL our optometry education has recently expanded to provide College of Optometrists Higher Qualifications. Our research priorities reflect the developing role of optometrists and our close links with the Institute of Ophthalmology. We are supported by our spectacle and contact lens laboratories.
Main duties of the job
To undertake specialist clinical activity; this activity requires regular use of a range of advanced clinical techniques requiring dexterity and concentration. These clinics involve responsibility for clinical decision-making with support from consultants and the provision of specialised diagnosis, management, care and education of patients.
To provide a clinical opinion or obtain a clinical opinion from consultant colleagues to optometric and non-optometric colleagues on the management of patients.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a wide range of optometric services, which can include:
Working in an 'extended role' capacity in a variety of ophthalmology clinics which can include Medical Retina, Glaucoma, Cataract or External Disease.
Working in extended role outside ophthalmology clinics, i.e. without medical support in clinic, e.g. Children’s Vision Clinic.
Refraction, including adult and paediatric; diagnostic and post-operative cases.
Medical Contact Lenses.
Low Vision Clinics, adult and paediatric.
Refracting patients to specific protocols as part of studies.
Supervising junior staff in their clinical roles.
To undertake specialist clinical activity; this activity requires regular use of a range of advanced clinical techniques requiring dexterity and concentration. These clinics involve responsibility for clinical decision-making with support from consultants and the provision of specialised diagnosis, management, care and education of patients.
To provide a clinical opinion or obtain a clinical opinion from consultant colleagues to optometric and non-optometric colleagues on the management of patients.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- GOC registration
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent use of a slit-lamp to examine the anterior and posterior eye with specialist lenses
- Competent performance of retinoscopy
- Ability to analyse and interpret ocular imaging e.g. OCT, visual fields, topography to an advanced clinical level e.g diagnosis
- Ability to use patient record systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication
Desirable criteria
- Ability to identify service improvement needs
- Ability to sensitively communicate complex information in a range of situations e.g. clinical information to patients, unwelcome & bad news.
- Good interpersonal skills highlighting the complexity of multidisciplinary team working, in challenging work environments, and the overall needs of the service
- Excellent written communication skills including the ability to write clinical summaries, referral letters, reports, papers
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-qualification Hospital experience >3 years
- Experience of examining vulnerable groups of patients e.g. CYP / additional needs
Desirable criteria
- Hospital extended role experience
- Community shared care experience
- Experience with clinical teaching
- Experience in audit/research
- Experience of dealing with quality and safety issues e.g. complaints, incidents, risk assessment
Qualification
Essential criteria
- BSC Optometry and registration
Desirable criteria
- Specialist College of Optometrist Higher Qualifications
- Specialist College of Optometrist Diploma in Independent Prescribing
- MSc in Optometry/Ophthalmology
- Specialist College of Optometrist Prof Cert Qualifications
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Hussain Khambati
- Job title
- Divisional Lead Optometrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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