Nurse Specialist Intravitreal Injector | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider is seeking an enthusiastic Nurse Specialist injector to join the dynamic Ophthalmology team at Ipswich Hospital. The role involves managing patient journeys through vitreo retinal care, collaborating with consultants, and ensuring high-quality patient assessments and information. Applicants will enjoy flexible working, a generous pension scheme, and extensive support for professional development. This position closes on January 6, 2026.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Flexible working options

NHS discounts

27 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Experience in managing patient journeys in medical settings.
• Ability to make autonomous clinical decisions.
• Strong communication skills for patient education.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate patients through the care pathway.
• Work with consultants in both supervised and unsupervised settings.
• Produce patient information and ensure documentation quality.
• Set and maintain protocols for anaesthetics and patient assessments.
• Act as a patient counselor post-consultation.

Skills

Patient care

Clinical decision-making

Communication

Data collection for audits

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and highly motivated Nurse Specialist injector to join our friendly, forward thinking Ophthalmology team at Ipswich Hospital ESNEFT.

We promote a team approach ethos towards service improvements with all staff included in supporting new developments.

You will be required to promote the highest possible standards of care based on professionally determined standards and accept accountability for the patient as an individual, providing autonomy.

Please be aware we might close the post earlier if sufficient amount of applications received.

Responsibilities

• To manage and co-ordinate the patients journey through the vitreo retinal care pathway.
• Working side by side with consultants/doctors in all retinal clinics both supervised and unsupervised.
• Responsible and autonomous in decision-making in clinical practice following consultant guidelines.
• Responsible for making follow up appointments, adding patients to waiting lists and discharging within consultant framework and according to protocol.
• Responsible for producing patient information, patient assessment and telephone assessment documents ensuring a high quality of care delivery and assessment of care needs.
• Set and maintain protocols/guidelines for local and general anaesthetics, day- case/in-patient episodes, and routine and telephone patient assessments.
• Act as counsellor to patients immediately after their medical consultation in the outpatient department, ensuring that patients are informed of their operative procedure. Assess the medical and social needs to ensure their planned method of admission is appropriate.
• To be a source of information and patient education over the full range of ophthalmic conditions.
• To collect and collate data for medical audit purposes.
• To keep updated with all clinical developments in the speciality area.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients. We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Tuesday 6 Jan 2026