We are looking for a Medical Retina fellow to join us for an initial one year fixed term appointment. This is a full time post with a minimum of 10 programmed activities. The post will be based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital Reading and the Prince Charles Eye Unit in Windsor. The appointee will be expected to become a full member of a progressive and forward looking department involved actively in Clinical Governance and Quality improvement projects. Continuing education, professional development and teaching are actively encouraged and research and audit opportunities will be available.

Main duties of the job

Medical retina clinics and cataract surgery will form part of the timetable and the Fellow will also be expected to contribute to General Ophthalmic, Casualty and Acute Primary care Services. They will be part of the team covering inpatients and on-call work.

The appointee would be required to undertake annual appraisal and contribute towards their professional development plan. The exact details of the job plan will be agreed on appointment and will depend upon the area of expertise of the successful applicant and requirements of the department.

About us

The department undertakes approximately 7000 day-case procedures pa and provides approximately 100,000 outpatient attendances and over 20,000 Eye Casualty attendances pa, serving a population of approximately 1 million.

At the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading the service is located in the Eye Block and includes the Eye Outpatient Department and the dedicated Eye Day Case Unit.

The Prince Charles Eye Unit in Windsor is on the site of the King Edward VII Hospital. There are two fully commissioned ophthalmic theatres within the unit undertaking day case admissions and minor operations.

Ophthalmic Accident and Emergency services are provided in both the Royal Berkshire Hospital and Prince Charles Eye Unit, adjacent to the clinics. The Orthoptic departments and departmental secretarial services are located close by.

The West Berkshire Community Hospital in Newbury provides dedicated eye outpatient clinic facilities and theatres.

The outpatient facilities at all sites include modern reception and waiting room areas and individual fully equipped consulting rooms. Up to date equipment includes OCT, HRT, photography, ultrasound, YAG and argon lasers (including SLT), Pentacam scanning and IOLMaster biometry.

The Royal Berkshire Hospital is a Digital Trust using Cerner Millennium EPR. The Ophthalmology department is paperlight, using Medisoft for all clinical records. Medisoft is closely integrated with EPR.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Competency in assessment and management of both routine and complicated medical retina patients

Competency in retinal lasers including PRP, focal/grid and micro pulse

Gain understanding of the evidence-base of medical retina management

Competency in management of acute and general ophthalmology

Competency in cataract surgery

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Full GMC registration/eligible for registration MBBS
• FRCOphth Part I
• 5 years at Specialist Registrar level or equivalent, in posts recognised for training by the appropriate Surgical Royal College
• Experience of Medical Retina clinics.

Desirable

• MSC or equivalent
• FRCOphth (full)
• Certificate of eligibility for entry into higher specialist training (CEEHST), Royal College of Ophthalmologists (for UK applicants).

Essential

Essential

• Experience in PRP, focal/grid and retinopexy argon laser

Desirable

• Computer skills - experience with Medisoft EPR

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust

Craven Road

Reading

RG1 5AN

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