Specialist Optometrist - Bedford

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work in an intra-vitreal injection service with Consultant support, and an optometrist led contact lens service. This role also includes working with the community-based orthoptic team to deliver a children's eye service.

To personally deliver a range of specialised optometric care and extended role optometric care, clinical audit & teaching.

To support the development of extended roles for optometrists within Moorfields.

In conjunction with the medical staff to support the development of, and to help deliver, shared-care for ophthalmic conditions.

MAIN RESPONSIBILTITES

1. Leadership

To personally deliver a range of specialised and extended optometric care, clinical audit and teaching.

2. Clinical

To provide a wide range of optometric services, which can include:

a) To work closely with the optometry team to provide a wide range of optometric services, at a hospital or community site, which may include:

a) Working in an 'extended role' capacity in a variety of ophthalmology clinics which could include Medical Retina, Glaucoma, Cataract, External, Adnexal, Paediatric or Acute Services.

c) Working in extended role outside ophthalmology clinics, i.e. without medical support in clinic, e.g. Diabetic slit lamp clinics, Childrens Vision Clinics.

d) Triage of referral letters both routine and urgent and management of shared care cataract referrals

e) Supervising junior staff in their clinical roles

To undertake specialist clinical activity; this activity requires regular use of a range of advanced clinical techniques requiring dexterity and concentration. These clinics involve responsibility for clinical decision-making with support from consultants and the provision of specialised diagnosis, management, care and education of patients.

To provide a clinical opinion or obtain a clinical opinion from consultant colleagues to optometric and non-optometric colleagues on the management of patients.

3. Clinical Governance

Responsibility in conjunction with the consultants for the systematic and critical analysis of the quality of work carried by optometrists.

To initiate and participate in clinical audit.

To help identify and develop service standards and audit for optometrists.

To personally participate in continuing professional education and development (as required by the General Optical Council and through appraisal as part of role).

4. Management

To help develop systems, clinical governance, processes, guidelines and training to establish and maintain extended role clinics & shared care services.

To be able to use appropriate IT including electronic patient records for benchmarking, audit and clinical uses.

5. Teaching and Development

Contribute to the delivery of optometric teaching and supervision to other ophthalmic professionals.

6. Research and Development

To contribute to clinical research or assessment programmes.

To present audit/research findings at relevant scientific meetings.

To contribute to publishing research/audit findings in peer-reviewed journals.

7. Policy

To support the Clinical Director, the Principal Optometrist & the Head of Optometry in the development and implementation of policies and procedures for Optometrists.

Person Specification

GOC Registration

Essential

• GOC Registration
• BSc. (Hons) Optometry & MCOptom or equivalent.

Desirable

• Specialist Higher Qualifications/ Diploma in Optometry

BSc(Hons) Optometry or equival

Essential

• BSc(Hons) Optometry or equivalent

Desirable

• FCOptom, MSc or equivalent specialist higher qualifications
• Independent Prescribing

Post-qualification experience

Essential

• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team.

Desirable

• Experience of managing complex patients

Clinical governance

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of clinical governance

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.

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

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Moorfields Eye Clinic at Bedford Hospital

Kempston Road

Bedford

MK42 9DJ

Employer's website

https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/work-for-us (Opens in a new tab)