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Head of Orthoptics | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,417 - £81,138 pa pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 September 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester, M13 9WL |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6408819/349-EAD-6408819 |
Summary
The UK's largest provincial ophthalmic provider is seeking to appoint a Head of Orthoptics.
Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (MREH) has provided world class ophthalmic care to the people of Manchester, the surrounding region and the wider United Kingdom since its inception in 1814, and and is a centre of excellence for ophthalmic care, teaching, and research.
The Head of Orthoptics will provide professional leadership and operational management for the Orthoptic service and it's team of 20 Orthoptists working across all clinical domains.
The Head of Orthoptics provides strategic and professional leadership for the service but is also key in supporting the delivery of the MREH Strategy.
The Head of the Department works closely with the Senior Leadership Team. The post holder is accountable for developing and implementing strategic plans for the Orthoptic services, ensuring they are aligned to the Trust strategy and are responsive and transformational to national changes in eye care provision. The post holder will ensure that services are compliant with external regulatory standards, are progressive, responsive to internal and external demand and are patient-focused, safe, efficient and effective.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
• Accountable for the delivery of strategic plans for the service across the organisation that are aligned with the Trust Strategy
• Ensure that services are progressive, responsive to internal and external demand, patient-focused, safe, efficient and effective
• Ensure financial, clinical activity and performance targets are achieved
• Accountability for clinical governance within the service
• Develop and implement a model of care for the Orthoptic service that supports the delivery of the best care, particularly but not exclusively in strabismus, paediatrics and neuro-ophthalmology services
• Ensure that the service support training and education programmes across the Trust and externally and links with appropriate organisations promoting education and training
• Provide adequate training resources for the clinical placements of Orthoptic students in the UK and for internationally based training programmes
• Accountable for auditing all aspects of the service against agreed standards
• Accountable for the implementation of research and development activity within the service
• Embed a continuous quality improvement culture across the service
• Build working relationships and negotiate with senior managers, clinicians and executive officers within and outside the Trust to realise the opportunities and benefits for the service users
This advert closes on Thursday 29 Aug 2024
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