Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Bank Optometrist to join our friendly team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
As a Senior Bank Optometrist, you will play a pivotal role in providing high-quality care and support to our patients. The primary location for this role is King's Mill Hospital where you will work in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment that values your expertise and skills.
This role will also involve travel to Newark Hospital and Ashfield Health Village, offering you the opportunity to expand your scope of practice and contribute to patient care in various settings. You will be responsible for assessing, diagnosing and treating a range of Orthoptic conditions, managing complex cases and providing a high standard of patient care across different departments.
This position provides a unique opportunity to gain experience across multiple settings, enhancing your clinical skills and expertise. You will be supported by a collaborative and friendly team, ensuring that your professional development is a key focus whilst delivering exceptional care.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to 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.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Knowledge of Optometry, Optics, orthoptics, Ophthalmology
Desirable
- IT skills including knowledge of hospital systems
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor of Science in Optometry or equivalent qualification
- Registration with the General Optical Council
Desirable
- Clinical teaching qualification
Further Training
Essential
- Keeps up to date with current literature and keep evidence of CPD activities
Desirable
- Additional training/CPD relating to learning disabilities
Experience
Essential
- Experience in clinical optometry
Desirable
- Experience of Optometry in a hospital setting
- Experience of working with children including those with additional needs
- Experience of delivering student supervision
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Provide optometry service for Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust across all sites
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Knowledge of Optometry, Optics, orthoptics, Ophthalmology
Desirable
- IT skills including knowledge of hospital systems
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor of Science in Optometry or equivalent qualification
- Registration with the General Optical Council
Desirable
- Clinical teaching qualification
Further Training
Essential
- Keeps up to date with current literature and keep evidence of CPD activities
Desirable
- Additional training/CPD relating to learning disabilities
Experience
Essential
- Experience in clinical optometry
Desirable
- Experience of Optometry in a hospital setting
- Experience of working with children including those with additional needs
- Experience of delivering student supervision
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Provide optometry service for Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust across all sites
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
