Medical Optometrist | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Bristol Eye Hospital is inviting applications from enthusiastic and motivated optometrists to join the Optometry team in the Glaucoma Service.
The Optometry department is well established and integrated into the multidisciplinary environment of the hospital, providing ophthalmic clinical management to people in the Bristol, Weston and across theSouth Westof England. Optometrists work across a broad range of multi-professional services from highly skilled core optometry to complex and specialised services, including glaucoma, cornea, medical retina and ED.
You will be based in the Glaucoma Service and clinical responsibilities will include patient facing glaucoma clinics for both routine and complex case mixes, new patient clinics, virtual clinic review and potential to deliver selective lasertrabeculoplasty.
Candidates will have the highest level of clinical experience and qualifications in glaucoma enabling them to work autonomously as well as under supervision.
Successful applicants will befully engagedwith the department, contributingto teamdevelopment and clinical service delivery, through high quality supervision and teaching,aswell as active input intoaudit and clinical governance
Clinics arelocatedat both Bristol Eye Hospital and Weston General Hospital locations. The role will be interesting, varied and there issignificant scope forprofessionaland personaldevelopment.
This is a permanent part-time role.
About you:
You are an optometrist with a commitment to professional and personal development and an enthusiasm for complex clinical work as well as service innovation. You have a high level of clinical experience in glaucoma which will enable you to manage a high volume complex caseload in the glaucoma service.Your highly developed specialist knowledge has been evidenced by holding the College of Optometrists Diploma in Glaucoma.
Keen to be fully engaged with the department, and to contribute to team development as well as clinical service delivery, you will be able to provide high quality supervision and teaching as well as actively input into audit and clinical governance.
Informal enquiriesregardingthispositionareencouraged. For further information please contactJennifer Durant, Glaucoma Service Lead Optometrist,Bristol Eye Hospital,LowerMaudlin Street, Bristol, BS1 2LX. Email:jennifer.durant@uhbw.nhs.ukTel: 0117 342 1437
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact.
Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
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For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Oct 2024