Consultant Ophthalmologist - Medical Retina | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Mai 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £105,504 - £139,882 per annum |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Basingstoke, RG24 9NA |
| Cwmni: | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7228654/251-MD25078 |
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This is an exciting opportunity to join the ophthalmology department within Hampshire Hospitals. The ophthalmology department spans across 3 sites and this role is working predominately at the Basingstoke site with a day a week at the Winchester site.
Each site has an outpatient setting, day case theatres, minor ops rooms, lasers, injection rooms and pre assessment areas.
The medical retina service has a robust virtual screening program for follow up patients.
This post is for an Ophthalmologist with a subspecialist interest in medical retina. Someone who will help to lead the medical retina service at the Basingstoke site and to continue to develop the service to ensure excellent patient care.
The post holder will:
• Work with colleagues to provide a consultant-led service with the highest standard of care.
• Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines.
• Develop and maintain good working practices within wards, outpatients, and A&E
• Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues in tertiary centres, community services and primary care.
• Offer support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
The appointee will be expected to participate in and share responsibility with the existing consultants for:
• The clinical workload of the department and service development
• Develop and provide services in medical retina.
• The administrative affairs of the department
• The on-call rota for the hospital, on an equal basis with other full-time consultants (with internal cover where appropriate). The rota is part of the Frimley Park Hospital on call rota which runs weekly (Mon-Sunday) on a 1 in 12 frequency.
• The management of the department and in due course, have the opportunity to rotate into the clinical leadership of the department.
Our service configuration includes a dedicated Eye Day Case Unit (EDCU) at Basingstoke Hospital, a dedicated Ophthalmic Imaging Technician, as well as community eye services that support glaucoma referral refinement and Minor Eye Conditions (MECs) being dealt with closer to home. We also have a specialised theatre at Andover War Memorial Hospital, as well as operating on cases in our day surgery units on both main hospital sites. Just one of our departments saw over 25,000 outpatient attendances in 2018/19 and nearly 5,000 inpatient and day case operations. Each of our existing consultants has a strong general Ophthalmology background with sub-specialty interests in medical retina, glaucoma, uveitis, anterior segment, oculoplastic, and paediatric ophthalmology, and strabismus.
For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Jun 2025