Specialty Doctor - Ophthalmology

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust; Harlow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust is seeking an Ophthalmology specialist. The role involves providing first-class eye care services, enhancing skills in cataract and medical retina clinics without on-call commitments. Candidates should possess strong communication skills and a caring approach to patient well-being.

Qualifications

• Experience in conducting cataract clinics and medical retina clinics (essential).
• Good communication skills and caring attitude towards patients (essential).

Responsibilities

• Work within multidisciplinary teams to provide high-quality clinical care.
• Collaborate with colleagues to deliver timely services and meet departmental objectives.

Skills

Good communication

Empathy

Patient care

Job description

Working with other members of the team, ensure the provision and delivery of a first class Ophthalmology service to our patients. The post holder will be given the opportunity to enhance and develop their ophthalmology skills that fit with the needs of the department. The post holder will be responsible to the Lead Consultant for the service in which they are working at any given time.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached JD for further information.

The job plan will include 8.5 Programmed Activities and 1.5 SPA (for supporting professional activities). This will be subject to the job planning process taking into account the special interest of the successful candidate.

Clinics running will include Eye Emergency clinics

There is no on-call commitment in this post.

About us

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care.

The post holder will be given the opportunity to enhance and develop their ophthalmology skills which fit with the needs of the department.

To collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service and to work towards meeting the Trusts and departmental objectives.

Please also see the attached Job description and person specification

Person Specification

Character

Essential

• Good communication, kind, empathetic, cares about patient well-being

Desirable

• Good communication, kind, empathetic, cares about patient well-being

Experience

Essential

• Experience in conducting cataract clinics and medical retina clinics

Desirable

• Experience in conducting cataract clinics and medical retina clinics

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