Consultant Ophthalmologist - Medical Retina

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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the ophthalmology department within Hampshire Hospitals. The ophthalmology department spans across 3 sites and this role is working predominately at the Basingstoke site with a day a week at the Winchester site.

Each site has an outpatient setting, day case theatres, minor ops rooms, lasers, injection rooms and pre assessment areas.

The medical retina service has a robust virtual screening program for follow up patients.

This post is for an Ophthalmologist with a subspecialist interest in medical retina. Someone who will help to lead the medical retina service at the Basingstoke site and to continue to develop the service to ensure excellent patient care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Work with colleagues to provide a consultant-led service with the highest standard of care.
• Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines.
• Develop and maintain good working practices within wards, outpatients, and A&E
• Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues in tertiary centres, community services and primary care.
• Offer support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

The appointee will be expected to participate in and share responsibility with the existing consultants for:

• The clinical workload of the department and service development
• Develop and provide services in medical retina.
• The administrative affairs of the department
• The on-call rota for the hospital, on an equal basis with other full-time consultants (with internal cover where appropriate). The rota is part of the Frimley Park Hospital on call rota which runs weekly (Mon-Sunday) on a 1 in 12 frequency.
• The management of the department and in due course, have the opportunity to rotate into the clinical leadership of the department.

Working for our organisation

Each of our existing consultants has a strong general Ophthalmology background with sub-specialty interests in medical retina, glaucoma, uveitis, anterior segment, oculoplastic, and paediatric ophthalmology, and strabismus.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Person specification

Training and qualifications

• FRCOphth or equivalent
• Full registration with the GMC
• Hold Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Ophthalmology or equivalent or be within 6 months of obtaining CCT or equivalent by date of interview.

• Fellowship level training in medical retina

Experience & Knowledge

• Experienced independent in cataract surgery
• Experienced general Ophthalmologist
• Subspecialty training in medical retina
• Completed a full training program
• Experience of and participation in clinical audit

• Experience of risk management

Skills & Ability

• Good written and verbal communication skills and able to communicate effectively with patients, colleagues and all levels of staff
• Teaching/presentation skills
• Good IT skills

• Management skills or qualification
• Educational Qualification

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

• HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
• All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
• In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
• This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.