Senior Optometrist

Job summary

Join our Team as a Part-Time Paediatric Optometrist!

As a part-time optometrist, you will play a pivotal role in providing top-notch optometry services within our esteemed hospital. Embrace the responsibility of assessing, diagnosing, and expertly managing the treatment of patients referred to our esteemed Hospital Orthoptic/Optometry service. Don't worry if you're new to this specialty; we provide comprehensive training to ensure your success.

Step into a world of excitement and growth with our incredible team. We are thrilled to offer you the chance to gain invaluable experience in paediatric refraction and fundoscopy. Become an integral part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals, where you'll thrive as an autonomous practitioner.

You will be the heart of our orthoptic/optometry clinic, with the sole responsibility of caring for patients from diverse backgrounds, including young children, babies, and individuals with learning and physical disabilities. Your compassionate approach and unwavering commitment to excellence will leave a lasting impact on every patient you serve.

This is your moment to shine! Embrace this attractive opportunity to join our dedicated team, where your skills and passion will make a genuine difference in the lives of countless patients. Join us now, and let's create an extraordinary vision for the future together.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.