Band 6 Optometrist

Job summary

Are you a newly qualified Optometrist with hospital experience? Maybe you're working in the community and want to expand your portfolio into a hospital setting or seeking a new challenge where you can return to your altruistic approach to patients and why you trained?

If you are any of the above, we would be thrilled to support you in your career.

Our Optometry department examine, detect and diagnose abnormalities and diseases- our clinics operate at Heartlands, Solihull, Good Hope and the QE account for 13% of UHB's annual activity.

With expansion of services comes opportunity for growth and development. To support newly qualified or those without hospital experience we are thrilled open applications to a band 6 Optometrist vacancy- whose competencies once signed off can expect to progression to a Band 7 opportunity.

To ensure this, you will work closely with the Head Optometrist, Doctors and Consultants, Orthoptists and other members of staff to assist in your development and progression.

Main duties of the job

As a key member of this ever-growing team, you will support our clinics in the performance of diagnostic refractions on patients of all ages with a wealth of eye conditions.

This will see exposure to cycloplegic and subjective refractions on the young children, low vision assessments for patients who are struggling with poor vision and performing (often complex) contact lens fits and aftercares.

This opportunity will see your skills and confidence increase within a hospital setting- where you can expect to be fully supported and offered access to higher education courses, training programmes. You will work closely with our amazing team of consultants who will be available to mentor you in your chosen areas of interest.

As with everyone in the UHB family, you will align to our values of being Kind, Connected and Bold. Our patients deserve the very best care and as a member of this team you will given the space and time to deliver this.

We hope we have inspired you to consider joining us and invite you to apply where we can introduce you to the teams, our locations and give you a clearer understanding of our offer.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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