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Highly Specialist Orthoptist | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Mehefin 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £43,742 - £50,056 per Annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Gorffennaf 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Liverpool, L7 8YE |
| Cwmni: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6378045/287-OPHT-40-24 |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly experienced fixed term Band 7 Orthoptist to join our busy eye unit for 12 months to cover maternity leave. Experience of an extended role would be beneficial. St Paul’s Eye Unit is located in the newly opened Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We provide adult services for the Liverpool region and we are a tertiary referral centre. We are a small department consisting of 5 Orthoptists and we work closely with our 27 consultants each with their own dedicated specialism. We are a clinical placement site for undergraduate Orthoptists. For informal enquiries please contact Jane Young 0151 706 3914
To independently assess, diagnose and manage adult patients presenting to the Orthoptic Department.
To use expert knowledge to support Consultant colleagues who are international leading experts in their field.
To independently assess, diagnose and manage patient referred from St Paul's Eye Emergency Department.
To provide clinical and theoretical teaching and liaise with the Department of Orthoptics Liverpool University.
To provide clinical and theoretical teaching to medical, nursing and paramedical staff.
To have the ability to work in an extended role.
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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• To perform and be responsible for a broad range of expert skills, complex, comprehensive investigative, diagnostic and therapeutic Orthoptic procedures on all patients regardless of physical and mental disabilities including language barriers.
• To formulate treatment plans and instruct patients and carers on continuous courses of home therapies.
• Independently implement, review and alter treatment, based on Orthoptic assessment, interpretation and evaluation of a wide range of conditions.
• To act as a source of expert clinical knowledge for consultants, clinical colleagues, patients and carers for routine and as part of a leading team of specialists.
• Work in partnership with consultants, optometrists, doctors and other medical professions, diagnose and treat and recommend further treatment options to other medical professionals.
• To provide highly specialised expertise within specialist clinics: Ocular Oncology clinics, Vitreo-retinal clinics, St Paul's Emergency Eye Department, Adult ocular motility and Botulinum Toxin.
• To independently assess, diagnose and where possible treat St Paul's Emergency Eye Department patients and Ophthalmic outpatients as first expert practitioner.
• To perform additional specialised skills of visual and ocular assessment: Colour vision, contrast sensitivity and visual field analysis.
• Collect, interpret and evaluate information and maintain accurate patient records.
• To be the sole provider of the Orthoptic service as part of a multi-disciplinary team/ and in co-ordination with other health professionals across the trust.
• To diagnose, treat and manage new patients referred to the Orthoptist as the initial assessment in the ophthalmic clinic and specialist clinics.
• To communicate complex diagnosis, treatment and management plans containing sensitive or contentious information where patients and/or carers may have major emotional, physical and psychological problems.
• To co-ordinate and participate in complex tests with other professions.
• Manage frequent, unpredictable, verbal immediate referrals from own and other directorates on a daily basis
* The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
* The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organis
This advert closes on Friday 5 Jul 2024