Consultant Ophthalmologist with interest in Medical Retina (DPoW)

NHS; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS is seeking a Consultant Ophthalmologist with a special interest in Medical Retina. The successful candidate will join a team of consultants, providing direct clinical roles and participating in department leadership and training of junior medical staff. This is a full-time permanent position with flexible working considerations and responsibilities including managing patients and overseeing surgery.

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration required.
• Competent Medical Retina consultant with experience in working autonomously.
• Evidence of specific Ophthalmology training in a fellowship programme.

Responsibilities

• Provide theatre cover as needed.
• Participate in the 1 in 10 on-call rota.
• Supervise trainee staff and provide an Ophthalmic service.

Skills

Medical Retina

Ophthalmology

Leadership

Teaching

Education

FRCOphth or equivalent

MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

Postgraduate degree (e.g. MD, PhD)

Job description

Go back Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Consultant Ophthalmologist with interest in Medical Retina (DPoW)

The closing date is 06 July 2025

The successful candidate will assume a direct clinical role within the department, sharing all facilities equally with the existing consultants. This is a full-time permanent post (11 PAs) General Ophthalmologist with special interest in Medical retinal diseases/ Uveitis. The appointee will be joining 32 Consultant Ophthalmologist posts already established. The successful candidate will work 11 PA's a week, which will include an 8 DCC and 2 SPA split (Flexible working may be considered) with additional activities to be discussed. It is expected that the successful applicant will play an active role in the consultant on call rota.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant will, in conjunction with colleagues:

i. Provide theatre cover as below.

ii. Provide an Ophthalmic service in accordance with the agreed timetable and subsequent job plan.

iii. Provide trustwide 1 in 10 on call cover

iv. Supervise trainee staff within the Trust.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy, please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Professional Registration

• Full GMC Registration
• Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) (The proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of the interview) Certificate of Eligibility for specialist Registration (CESR)

Qualifications and Training

• FRCOphth or equivalent
• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• Postgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training

Clinical Experience

• Competent Medical Retina consultant with experience in working autonomously
• Evidence of specific Ophthalmology training in a fellowship programme.

Management and Administration Experience

• Ability to manage and lead medical/surgical teams
• Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
• Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
• Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery

Teaching, Audit and Research

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff
• Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
• Evidence of participation in audit
• Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
• Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
• Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
• Original peer-reviewed research publications

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust