Consultant Ophthalmologist with interest in Medical Retina (SGH)

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Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Consultant Ophthalmologist specializing in Medical Retina to join its esteemed team at Scunthorpe General Hospital. The role includes direct clinical responsibilities, theatre cover, and involvement in teaching and supervising junior staff in a prestigious healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Experience supervising junior medical staff.
• Evidence of participation in audit.
• Commitment to teaching.

Responsibilities

• Provide ophthalmic service in accordance with the job plan.
• Manage and lead the surgical teams.
• Participate in the on-call rota.

Skills

Ability to manage medical teams

Leading service delivery

Teaching and supervising medical staff

Education

Full GMC Registration

FRCOphth or equivalent

MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

Postgraduate degree (MD, PhD)

Job description

Employer Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Scunthorpe General Hospital Town Scunthorpe Salary £105,504 - £139,882 PA PR Salary period Yearly Closing 17/07/2025 23:59

Consultant Ophthalmologist with interest in Medical Retina (SGH)

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details regarding this role, please see attached full 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

• Able to take responsibility for delivering the service without direct supervision.
• Evidence of specific Ophthalmology training in a fellowship programme.
• Dual fellowship / ASTO in a recognised teaching centre.

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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 Mr Satish Kotta [e-mail] Job title Consultant Ophthalmologist & Clinical Lead Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01482 875875