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Job overview

The Clinical Fellowship is suitable for a trainee Ophthalmologist (post CCT or ST6 or above) seeking advanced sub-specialty training in Paediatric Ophthalmology, and the Fellow will have the opportunity to acquire skills appropriate to Consultant Ophthalmologists providing a major sub-specialist service in a large ophthalmology centre. The post offers wide clinical experience in the management of paediatric eye disease, including paediatric cataract, strabismus, paediatric glaucoma, paediatric neuroophthalmology, paediatric uveitis, genetic eye disease and retinopathy of prematurity. Surgical training includes strabismus surgery, paediatric cataract and glaucoma surgery, botulinum toxin injections in children. The fellow will take part in screening and treatment for retinopathy of prematurity. The fellow will gain experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment through close liaison with the orthoptists, optometrists, paediatricians including paediatric rheumatologists and geneticists.

Main duties of the job

Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Ophthalmology (Locally Employed Doctor) at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital

This post is available from March 2025 for 12 months and the 2nd post is available from August 2025. The Fellowship is suitable for a candidate who has completed their ophthalmology training and who wishes to subspecialise in paediatric ophthalmology. It provides clinical and surgical experience in paediatric cataract and glaucoma, ocular motility, retinopathy of prematurity, paediatric uveitis and genetic eye disease.

Name of supervising Consultant:  Sus Biswas, J Ashworth, V Sharma, B Shenoy

Contact for enquiries Jane Ashworth: [email protected] 01617014838

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.