Band 7 Specialist Optometrist

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Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Band 7 Specialist Optometrist at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, providing crucial clinical care for glaucoma patients. Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team, conducting assessments and diagnostic procedures to enhance glaucoma services. This part-time role offers a competitive salary and the chance to contribute to high-quality patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Registered Orthoptist or Optometrist with professional certification in glaucoma.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience in glaucoma and macula clinics.

Responsibilities

• Providing specialist assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with Glaucoma.
• Performing and interpreting relevant diagnostic tests.
• Contributing to the development of glaucoma care pathways.

Skills

Clinical experience

Teamwork

Assessment and diagnosis

Education

Professional certificate in Glaucoma

Registered Orthoptist or Optometrist

Further/higher qualification in Glaucoma

Job description

Main area Orthoptist or Optometrist Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 7.5 hours per week (Monday at Royal Free Hospital and Thursday at Barnet Hospital) Job ref 391-RFL-7099106

Employer Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Free Hospital Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum (pro-rata) inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 20/06/2025 23:59

Band 7 Specialist Optometrist

NHS AfC: Band 7

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly motivated an Orthoptist or Optometrist with experience working in glaucoma clinics on a part- time basis.

The post holder will provide clinical care to patients with glaucoma working as a part of multidisciplinary team consisting of eye health professionals working towards high quality patients centred care for the Glaucoma pathway,

The roles involve a mixture of outpatient clinics, virtual clinics, diagnostic procedures and contributing to the development of the glaucoma services within the trust.

Main duties of the job

· Providing specialist assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with Glaucoma

· Performing and interpreting relevant diagnostic tests including, anterior chamber assessment, IOP, visual field assessment and retinal imaging.

· Contributing to the development and implementation of glaucoma care pathways

· Participating is audit and research activities.

· Providing education and supports to patients and families.

· Providing support and education to other members of the ophthalmology team

Working for our organisation

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional certificate in Glaucoma
• Registered Orthoptist or Optometrist
• Further/higher professional qualification in Glaucoma

Experience

• • Evidence of continuing professional development. A portfolio of career long learning, experience, and education
• • Recognised teaching and assessing qualification
• • Ophthalmic professional certificate in one or more; medical retina or glaucoma
• • High level of literacy
• • Ability to demonstrate professional knowledge and skills (able to access, appraise and apply evidence in practice)
• • Experience in glaucoma clinics
• • Experience in macula clinics

Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Skills and aptitude

• Experience of working within multi professional settings and contributing to effective team working.
• Clinical experience working within an Ophthalmic setting.
• Supporting Ophthalmology Consultant led clinics across sub-specialties, glaucoma, emergency eye care, medical retina
• Able to work under pressure and to deal with emergency situations safely and effectively.
• Ability to work under own initiative and plan and prioritise own workload, this includes clinical and academic workloads
• Interest in clinical research and audit
• Ability to deliver safe clinical practice, incorporating human factors in all decision-making processes.
• Ability to manage complex and challenging patient centred situations professionally and effectively.
• Positive attitude to innovation and change.
• Presentations to colleagues/peers

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to NMUH transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

If you are anEU/EEA citizen who does not have EU Settlement or Pre-Settled status, you will require a visa to work in the UK.

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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.

Name Safina Rashid Job title Head of Orthoptics and Optometry services Email address [e-mail] Telephone number Extension 32572