Medical Retina Clinical Fellow

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Bedford; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading eye hospital in the UK is seeking a Medical Retina Clinical Fellow to join its team in Bedford. The role includes three clinical sessions, two surgical sessions, and teaching responsibilities. Candidates must have strong clinical experience in ophthalmology, with a focus on retinal procedures. This position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development in a prestigious medical environment.

Qualifications

• Possession of MRCOphth or equivalent is essential.
• Completion of Specialist Ophthalmology Training or equivalent.
• Completion of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) course in the last two years.

Responsibilities

• Conduct clinical sessions for urgent care and general ophthalmology.
• Perform intravitreal injections and retinal laser procedures.
• Attend MR Fellows Teaching Sessions regularly.

Skills

Unsupervised retinal laser experience

Intravitreal injections

Clinical experience in Ophthalmology

Teaching skills

Team player

Education

MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

MRCOphth or equivalent

Full GMC Registration or eligibility

Job description

Go back Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Medical Retina Clinical Fellow

The closing date is 21 October 2025

Applications are invited for a clinical fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Medical Retinal service. The post will be based at Bedford available for a 12 month fixed term period.

We are seeking candidates with previous unsupervised retinal laser experience, intravitreal injections and clinical experience. Candidates should have completed their higher surgical training in the UK or equivalent. Candidates from outside UK should have equivalence of higher surgical training (residency in ophthalmology) and should have been working in Ophthalmology for last 12 months.

Possession of the MRCOphth or equivalent is essential as is 'License to Practise' or be eligible for registration with the General Medical Council (GMC). We also encourage applications from doctors wishing to apply via the Dual Sponsorship Scheme, and applications from doctors with sources of personal funding are also welcome.

Main duties of the job

May vary but will include

: 6 clinical sessions, 2 theatre session and 2 admin/audit/management sessions. The clinical sessions will include rapid access clinics (urgent care/emergency ophthalmology), medical retina cataract clinics and general ophthalmology clinics

All clinical sessions will take place at Moorfields at Bedford and there will be a chance to attend the City Road teaching sessions when appropriate and use the facilities at the City Road site including the Institute of Ophthalmology library.

This post includes two surgical session to allow a cataract surgeon to develop their skills alongside a consultant ophthalmic surgeon

The successful candidate will join the 1st on call doctor system based at Moorfields Bedford covering the Bedford Luton Milton Keynes ICB. This would be approximately a 1:9 rota providing out of hours emergency ophthalmology cover. This activity attracts an uplift in salary due to the out of hours nature of the work.

Attendance at regular MR Fellows Teaching Sessions (typically 6, 1-hour sessions per week, including Fluorescein Angiography Meeting, Electrophysiology Teaching, Uveitis Teaching and Clinical / Research Tutorials).

About us

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MEH) is one of the world's leading eye hospitals, providing expertise in clinical care, research and education. We have provided excellence in eye care for more than 200 years and we continue to be at the forefront of new breakthroughs and developments. We are an integral part of one of the UK's first academic health science centres, UCL Partners, and were one of the first foundation trusts established in the NHS.

Our main focus is the treatment and care of NHS patients with a wide range of eye problems, from common complaints to rare conditions which require treatments not available anywhere else in the UK. The unique case-mix and volume of our large service means that our ophthalmologists can develop expertise in different sub-speciality areas.

Moorfields is also a major postgraduate teaching centre and a national centre for ophthalmic research and, with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, provides the largest ophthalmic research programme in the world. We continue to make headlines with our ground-breaking research and, along with our partners at the Institute, we have the highest measure of scientific productivity and impact in the world for our research activity. We are one of only 11 sites nationally to be awarded National Institute for Health Research biomedical research centre status for translational research. This has recently been renewed for another 5 years with a substantial increase in research funding.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for more details.

All doctors are responsible to maintain a portfolio of their career over the last 5 years in order to satisfy GMC Revalidation criteria. If successful, you will be required to bring along your supporting information portfolio including recent appraisals documents when joining the Trust.

Doctors holding joint and/or various fixed term appointments throughout their appraisal year are also required to demonstrate evidence of an exit report and supporting information from the different appointments they hold throughout their appraisal year. This information must be brought with them when starting a new appointment within The Trust. It is recommended that doctors collect this information before leaving their previous employers.

Please note all doctors from abroad must produce an IELTS certificate with 7.5 scored in all fields before they can be appointed to the Trust. It will be a condition of employment that non-UK nationals who apply to come under the Medical Training Initiative will have passed the IELTS exam with a score of at least 7.5 in all domains. You will be required to produce evidence of successful IELTS completion at interview.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
• MRCOphth or equivalent.
• Full GMC Registration (with a Licence to Practice) or be eligible for GMC Registration.

Skills and Ability

• Teaching skills & enthusiasm

Further Training and Knowledge

• Completion of Specialist Ophthalmology Training or Equivalent.
• Research Interest.
• Research into educational methods.
• Completion of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) course in the last two years.
• Previous teaching and research experience and clinical experience in Medical Retina. Should be competent in doing independent intravitreal injections, and laser procedures (macular and pan-retinal photocoagulation).
• Previous experience of working on commercially sponsored clinical trials as a sub or coinvestigator.

Personal Qualities

• Determination & application.
• Ability to tackle complex problems.
• Team player.
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

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.

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£49,333.59 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS plus £10,100 On call supplement