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Medical Retina Fellow | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,329 per Annum (Dependant on experience) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 8YE |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6180044/287-OPHT-17-24 |
Summary
Applications are invited for a fellow post in Ophthalmology. This is a 10 PA post providing post-CCT level training for ophthalmic trainees/ ophthalmologists who wish to specialise in Medical Retina.
This post is based at St Pauls Eye Unit at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Appointments are on the basis of eight PAs (programmed activities) of direct clinical care and two of supporting professional activities. SPEU also collaborates between adult ophthalmology services and the paediatric ophthalmology unit at Alder Hey Hospital, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to this clinical collaboration.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click herehttps://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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The post offers opportunities to contribute to clinical research in Medical Retina; there are on-going clinical trials in AMD, DR, Uveitis and inherited retinal diseases and a strong emphasis on active participation in weekly teaching and training activities and journal clubs.
If you are appointed you will share a continuing responsibility for the proper function of the Trust and will undertake administrative duties associated with this together with being a member of the Directorate of Ophthalmology, strengthening the ethos of collective responsibility for the organisation and provision of services which has been a feature of St Paul’s.
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check
This advert closes on Monday 15 Apr 2024