Senior Orthoptist

Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Sutton-in-Ashfield is seeking a Senior Orthoptist to deliver high-quality care at King's Mill Hospital and beyond. You'll assess and treat various orthoptic conditions, manage complex cases, and benefit from a supportive team that values professional development. This role offers a chance to enhance your skills in a collaborative environment dedicated to patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat a range of orthoptic conditions.
• Manage complex cases and provide high standards of patient care.

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Orthoptist, you will play a pivotal role in providing high-quality care and support to our patients. The primary location for this role is at King's Mill Hospital, where you will work in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment that values your expertise and skills.

Locations and Travel

This role will also involve travel to Newark Hospital and Ashfield Health Village, offering you the opportunity to expand your scope of practice and contribute to patient care in various settings.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for assessing and treating a range of orthoptic conditions, managing complex cases and providing a high standard of patient care across different departments.

Opportunity and Support

This position provides a unique opportunity to gain experience across multiple settings, enhancing your clinical skills and expertise. You will be supported by a collaborative and friendly team, ensuring that your professional development is a key focus while delivering exceptional care. To understand the role in more detail, please see attached job description and person specification documents.

About the Trust

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

Culture and Recognition

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.