Specialist Orthoptist

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Warwick; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an Orthoptist to join a friendly team delivering Orthoptic services across Warwickshire and beyond. The role supports adult motility services and paediatric clinics, with opportunities to contribute to Botox/adjustable sutures and cross-site collaboration.

You will provide autonomous, high-quality Orthoptic care within a proactive AHP network. The post is Band 6, suited to an Orthoptist with post-qualification experience, in a Trust committed

Qualifications

• Band 6 role with post-qualification experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist, high quality Orthoptic services as an autonomous practitioner and work as a member of the cross-site Orthoptic team in assessment, diagnosis and management of ocular motility disorders and amblyopia.
• Develop and monitor treatment plans using clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.

Job description

South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust and George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust are recruiting an Orthoptist to join our friendly team who deliver orthoptic services across Warwickshire. You will be supported by the team to deliver high quality orthoptic services and will include a varied orthoptic caseload.

The Orthoptic team supports adult motility services for the whole of Coventry and Warwickshire including assisting with Botox and adjustable sutures. The Orthoptic team also support paediatric services including ROP screening, urgent care clinics, Consultant clinics, joint optometry clinics and Orthoptic clinics.

As an AHP at South Warwickshire and George Eliot you will join a network of supportive and forward thinking AHPs across the trust who will support you in your role and who champion the work and development of the AHP community.

The department is committed to providing opportunities for continuous professional development and is active in audit and service improvement.

This role is Band 6 and so is most suited to an orthoptist with post qualification experience.

To provide specialist comprehensive, high quality Orthoptic services as an autonomous practitioner and to work as an effective member of the cross-site Orthoptic team in the assessment, diagnosis and management of patients with ocular motility disorders and amblyopia; to develop and monitor effective treatment plans using specialist skills based on clinical and analytical reasoning and using evidence based practice.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are "Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care". Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As Part Of Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Oxford Job title: Lead Orthoptist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07350454754