Pre-registration Optometrist

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking an enthusiastic pre-registration optometrist to join their optometry team. This role offers an opportunity to begin your optometry career in a dynamic hospital clinic, delivering high-quality patient care and gaining essential skills for registration. Candidates must have a degree in Optometry by the start date. Flexible working arrangements are available.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Essential to have a degree in Optometry by the start date.

Responsibilities

• Work primarily in the core optometry service providing refraction, low vision, and contact lens services.
• Participate in extended role clinics such as eye emergency and post-operative cataract care.

Education

Degree in Optometry

Job description

We are seeking an enthusiastic pre-registration optometrist to join the optometry team at Newcastle Eye Centre. This post offers an exciting opportunity to start your optometry career in a busy fast‑paced hospital clinic and gain the necessary knowledge and skills for the College of Optometrist's Scheme for Registration.

• Interview date: 15 January 2026
• 37 hours 30 minutes /week

• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy; you will work primarily in the core optometry service which provides refraction, low vision and contact lens services to adult and paediatric patients. You will also have the opportunity to participate in extended role clinics such as eye emergency and post‑operative cataract care. Regular sessions are arranged in a range of Ophthalmologist and Orthoptic clinics.

• There is a good opportunity to be involved in providing a wide range of services and to get an insight into the expanding role of an Optometrist in a busy hospital environment.
• It is essential that you have a degree in Optometry by the date of commencing in post.

• Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for all essential and desirable criteria required for the role.

  As a flexible‑working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites: o Freeman Hospital o Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site) o Newcastle Dental Hospital o Newcastle Fertility Centre o Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria o Northern Genetics Service o Cramlington Manor Walks. These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting‑edge care (supported by state‑of‑the‑art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.