We are pleased to announce that we have a full time vacancy (5 days a week/ 37.5 hours) for a Specialist / Advanced Optometrist (Band 7) to join our progressive friendly optometry team at Oxford Eye Hospital. This post will give you a varied job plan depending on your experience to date and changing demands on the service. The post will suit those who have experience in hospital optometry delivering high level clinical care in core and extended roles.

Additional College of Optometrist Higher Qualifications would be an advantage.

Additional training will be given as needed to meet service demands.

Main duties of the job

Core optometry opportunities include:

1. Complex adult and paediatric refractions both at the JR site.

2.Paediatric refractions at out reach clinics in the county working alongside Orthoptists

3. Medical contact lens - management of keratoconus and scleral lens fitting.

4. Low vision service for adults and Paediatrics

5. You may be involved in providing Eye Casualty telephone triage

6. Extended roles include:

Eye Casualty work, Glaucoma clinics , Cornea clinics , Uveitis clinics , AMD and other medical retina clinics, Ultrasound and Electrophysiology.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more at www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals- the John Radcliffe, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Horton General Hospital.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care that we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this delivering compassionate excellence and it s focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH You Tube channel.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Core optometry opportunities include:

1. Complex adult and paediatric refractions both at the JR site.

2.Paediatric refractions at out reach clinics in the county working alongside Orthoptists

3. Medical contact lens - management of keratoconus and scleral lens fitting.

4. Low vision service for adults and Paediatrics

5. You may be involved in providing Eye Casualty telephone triage

6. Extended roles include:

Eye Casualty work, Glaucoma clinics , Cornea clinics , Uveitis clinics , AMD and other medical retina clinics, Ultrasound and Electrophysiology.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Optometry 2 (1 ) or above and GOC registered as qualified optometrist
• Ability to work well within a team and evidence of consistent harmonious working

Desirable

• Further postgraduate Optometric qualification relating to highly specialist aspect of clinical and technical expertise (taught course)
• Hospital eye service experience

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Oxford Eye Hospital and peripheral sites as needed

West Wing, JR hospital, Headley Way

Oxford

OX3 9DU

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