Specialist Orthoptist

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust; Luton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Specialist clinical roles

Acute clinic with Ophthalmologist

Great benefits

Outstanding NHS Trust (CQC)

Job summary

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust is seeking an experienced orthoptist to join a diverse team delivering care across community and hospital sites in Bedfordshire and surrounding areas. The post welcomes recently graduated orthoptists and offers opportunities for flexible working and teaching.

You will work with a specialist team, travel regularly to clinics, and contribute to high-quality, innovative services within an outstanding NHS Trust.

Qualifications

• A degree in Orthoptics or equivalent.
• HCPC registration.
• Membership of BIOS.
• Experience in orthoptics in acute or community settings desirable.
• Ability to resolve clinical and non-clinical queries.
• Good communication to share knowledge with the team.
• A desire to go beyond expectations.

Responsibilities

• Work across community and hospital clinics as part of a team of orthoptists and support staff.
• Deliver specialist clinical roles including stroke and paediatric-related clinics.
• Travel to hospital and community clinics as required.
• Teach and mentor undergraduate orthoptic students and undertake postgraduate modules.

Skills

Communication skills

Clinical reasoning

Team collaboration

Willingness to travel

Education

Degree in Orthoptics or equivalent

Job description

Are you a Specialist Orthoptist, or ready to make that move?

Want to be part of a service which provides treatment in both an acute and community setting?

Keen to work within a team where you can share your skills and experience?

Then please read on.

We are looking for an experienced orthoptist to join our team, we will consider applications from recently graduated Orthoptists. This is an opportunity to work alongside staff in our community-based team of 15 Orthoptists, Orthoptic Support Workers and an Orthoptic Apprentice working on a varied and challenging caseload across the Community and Hospital sites.

You Will Have

• A degree in Orthoptics or equivalent
• HCPC registration
• Membership of BIOS
• Experience of all aspects of orthoptics in both acute or community is desirable
• Ability to resolve both clinical and non-clinical queries
• Communication skills to pass on your knowledge to the team
• A desire to go beyond expectations

We Offer

• Opportunities for flexible working.
• We offer specialist clinical roles such as special needs assessment, stroke ward assessment, stroke outpatient clinics, Goldmann assessment, Vision Therapy and clinical teaching.
• Acute clinic with Ophthalmologist (adults and paediatrics patients)
• Great benefits and inhouse staff services
• Working with a Trust rated outstanding by the CQC

You will need to work in some of our clinics single-handed so the role is most suited to an experienced orthoptist. You must have a degree or diploma in orthoptics, be registered with the HCPC and be a member of the British and Irish Orthoptic Society.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding - and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

You will be based in the community at Liverpool Road Health Centre in Luton, or Kempston Health Centre, Bedford with a requirement to travel frequently to hospital and community clinics throughout Bedfordshire.

Our team covers community clinics across the county, including paediatric orthoptic and child development centre clinics.

We also provide orthoptic clinics at both Hospitals, the Luton and Dunstable Hospital and Moorfields at Bedford Hospital. At the Luton and Dunstable and Moorfields eye clinics our team provides orthoptic support for hospital paediatric and adult motility clinics with consultants in paediatric ophthalmology and strabismus.

The department participates in NIHR registered Moorfields research studies.

We also provide specialist in and out-patient Stroke services at the Luton and Dunstable hospital as part of the multidisciplinary stroke team.

Orthoptists wishing to become a clinical tutor or to study postgraduate orthoptic modules at Sheffield and Liverpool University including the medicine exemptions course will be supported. The orthoptic department is also committed to teaching undergraduate orthoptic students.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Angela Coleman, Aisha Raja and Selina Glaze Job title: Orthoptic Team Leader Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0300 555 0606

If this sounds like the role for you and you would like to arrange an informal visit or find out more information please contact Aisha Raja, Selina Glaze or Angela Coleman on 0300 555 0606 or email [e-mail]