Job summary
- Main area
- Ophthalmology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (To cover maternity leave)
- Hours
- Part time - 20 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-PST004-0125
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Glamorgan Hospital
- Town
- Llantrisant
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Professional Lead Optometrist
Band 8a
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Job overview
The post-holder will be expected to work as a highly advanced clinical Optometrist (Principal) across a variety of sub-specialties within the Ophthalmology Department, whilst also carrying out the responsibilities as Professional Lead Optometrist for the Hospital wide Optometry Service. Highly advanced Clinical Optometrists have the highest level of specialist clinical training, knowledge, skills and experience within Hospital Eye Service Optometry to provide disease treatment, patient care and management of both optometric and specific ophthalmological caseloads.
This post is fixed term for 12 months to cover maternity leave
Main duties of the job
The role therefore demands the highest level of individual professional responsibility within clinical optometry, exceeding that of both community and more traditional hospital eye service optometrists both in terms of breadth and depth of knowledge, skills and experience.
Within a number of sub-specialist areas of patient care, post holders will wherever possible, autonomously deliver a wide range of advanced, specialised, complex and non-routine work, with responsibility for patient examination and complex clinical decision making, regarding on-going management/treatment of a number of sight-threatening eye diseases. The post-holder will work in a multidisciplinary environment alongside Consultant Ophthalmologists, carrying out joint treatment decisions, and discuss and seek guidance on management of cases that they consider being beyond their competence, or where they consider that a surgical opinion is required. Typically, the post-holder will make decisions regarding initiation and review of medical/pharmacological management and will be expected to understand and manage the interface between medical and surgical management of eye disease.
See JD attached
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role therefore demands the highest level of individual professional responsibility within clinical optometry, exceeding that of both community and more traditional hospital eye service optometrists both in terms of breadth and depth of knowledge, skills and experience.
Within a number of sub-specialist areas of patient care, post holders will wherever possible, autonomously deliver a wide range of advanced, specialised, complex and non-routine work, with responsibility for patient examination and complex clinical decision making, regarding on-going management/treatment of a number of sight-threatening eye diseases. The post-holder will work in a multidisciplinary environment alongside Consultant Ophthalmologists, carrying out joint treatment decisions, and discuss and seek guidance on management of cases that they consider being beyond their competence, or where they consider that a surgical opinion is required. Typically, the post-holder will make decisions regarding initiation and review of medical/pharmacological management and will be expected to understand and manage the interface between medical and surgical management of eye disease.
See JD attached
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- GOC registered Optometrist
- A detailed understanding of advanced clinical and theoretical optometric procedures relating to the provision of shared care for patients receiving treatment for eye diseases.
- GOC Independent Prescribing Speciality Registration.
Desirable criteria
- Significant hospital experience in specialist area
- Research experience in specialist area.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualifying experience.
- Experience of working in specialist eye clinics.
Desirable criteria
- Post-registration in period in Hospital Environment.
- Experience of planning and carrying out audit / research.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to working including problem solving skills, management of change.
- Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively and ensure clinical and professional standards are upheld.
Values
Essential criteria
- Personal & professional maturity
- Ability to work on own initiative and in a team
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zahra Rasheed
- Job title
- Clinical Optometrist, Ophthalmology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443443
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