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Extended Role (Specialist) Optometrist
| Posting date: | 13 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 February 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS1 2LX |
| Company: | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6911407/387-S-6346-LH |
Summary
A Vacancy at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
Bristol Eye Hospital is inviting applications from enthusiastic and motivated optometrists to join the Optometry Team.
Based in our Optometry Department, Extended Role (Specialist) Optometrists participate in delivering care to people within a range of services including anterior segment, glaucoma, medical retina and research.
This role is in our Medical Retina Service,delivering care to people with a variety of retinalpathologiesinface-to-faceand virtualclinics. Workingclosely with the medical retinateam,delivering services to those accessing surgical and medical retinal treatments, you will alsoliaise with other services withintheBristoland WestonEye Hospitalservice.
The post is forseven clinical sessions a week,with part timeand job sharesconsideredwithacommitment of two days a week as a preferred minimum.
About you:
You are an optometrist with a commitment to professional and personal development and an enthusiasm for complex clinical work as well as service innovation. You may have previous hospital experience or hold higher qualifications, although training is available in post which will support you gaining both.
Keen to be fully engaged with the department, and to contribute to team development as well as clinical service delivery, you will be able to be involved in clinical teaching as well as actively input into audit and service improvement.
About the Optometry Department:
The Optometry Department at Bristol Eye Hospital is well established and integrated into the multidisciplinary environment of the hospital, providing clinical management of eye health to people in Bristol, Weston and across the South West of England.
A glimpse of life at BEH: https://youtu.be/he7-XrxIopo
Optometrists in the department are a diverse team of highly capable clinicians who work across a broad range of multi-professional services from highly skilled core optometry to complex and specialised services, including cornea, medical retina, glaucoma, paediatrics and ED.
Frequently engaged with the broader aspects of optometry and eye health, including education, research and leadership, optometrists in the department are encouraged to develop professionally as well as personally.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.
As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Feb 2025
Bristol Eye Hospital is inviting applications from enthusiastic and motivated optometrists to join the Optometry Team.
Based in our Optometry Department, Extended Role (Specialist) Optometrists participate in delivering care to people within a range of services including anterior segment, glaucoma, medical retina and research.
This role is in our Medical Retina Service,delivering care to people with a variety of retinalpathologiesinface-to-faceand virtualclinics. Workingclosely with the medical retinateam,delivering services to those accessing surgical and medical retinal treatments, you will alsoliaise with other services withintheBristoland WestonEye Hospitalservice.
The post is forseven clinical sessions a week,with part timeand job sharesconsideredwithacommitment of two days a week as a preferred minimum.
About you:
You are an optometrist with a commitment to professional and personal development and an enthusiasm for complex clinical work as well as service innovation. You may have previous hospital experience or hold higher qualifications, although training is available in post which will support you gaining both.
Keen to be fully engaged with the department, and to contribute to team development as well as clinical service delivery, you will be able to be involved in clinical teaching as well as actively input into audit and service improvement.
About the Optometry Department:
The Optometry Department at Bristol Eye Hospital is well established and integrated into the multidisciplinary environment of the hospital, providing clinical management of eye health to people in Bristol, Weston and across the South West of England.
A glimpse of life at BEH: https://youtu.be/he7-XrxIopo
Optometrists in the department are a diverse team of highly capable clinicians who work across a broad range of multi-professional services from highly skilled core optometry to complex and specialised services, including cornea, medical retina, glaucoma, paediatrics and ED.
Frequently engaged with the broader aspects of optometry and eye health, including education, research and leadership, optometrists in the department are encouraged to develop professionally as well as personally.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.
As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Feb 2025
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