Ophthalmology Consultant

Posting date:	05 June 2025
Salary:	£105,504.00 to £139,882.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£105504.00 - £139882.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	13 July 2025
Location:	Ashford, TW15 3AA
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	C9323-25-0319

Summary

Deliver Clinical, Educational, Managerial Services of the highest professional standard at Consultant Level to the Department Work with existing consultants and the multi-disciplinary team to provide a high quality well-led service for patients of Ashford & St Peters, including the diagnosis, investigations, treatment and management of patients, in accordance with Trust policies and practices. Deliver Direct Clinical Care to patients, through all parts of the Department assisting clinical decision-making and sharing equally in the workload. The Consultant team will provide comprehensive senior clinical cover to the Department. Any changes will be by negotiation and will be reflected in the job plans of the team. Have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, ensuring safe handover as appropriate. Engage fully with the care of patients outside the department and provide a prompt opinion on request from consultant colleagues in other specialties. Engage with medical, nursing, management and all relevant co-workers in the delivery of department objectives: to provide clinical leadership, improve the patient experience; ensure the highest quality clinical care. Actively participate in and support other staff with education, research, audit and clinical governance activities involving a multi-disciplinary workforce across the department Participate in the professional training of the staff in the department, both medical and non-medical, and contribute as required to teaching sessions for other hospital staff as well as undergraduate and postgraduate staff, including supervision of junior medical staff. Teaching and training will require verification of teaching certification Support recruitment, appraisal, development and mentoring activities to a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional team Undertake any other duties appropriate for a consultant. LEARNING, DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH The Trust encourages and supports consultants with a special interest to develop their interest, where it meets department objectives, and can be audited and reviewed, and provide learning opportunities for other staff. Participate in clinical audit activities of the department and hospitals, ensuring record-keeping is effective. Undertake research and develop special interests within the limits of clinical and service workload. Undertake continuing medical education internally and externally with study leave entitlement as appropriate. SUPPORTING PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (SPA) ASPH is committed to ensuring that all Consultants have dedicated SPAs within their job plan which will be scheduled based on individual preference and to meet the needs of the service. Specific responsibilities will be developed on appointment and according to areas of interest but Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs) are intended to include Audit, research, and local clinical governance activity Formal teaching and preparation (e.g. giving lectures, seminars) Post-graduate teaching, and training (e.g. of junior doctors, medical students) External teaching and education delivery (e.g. ATLS, APLS) Clinical management, attendance at departmental and trust meetings Appraisal, Job planning and rota organisation Service development, quality improvement work, Major incident planning. THE JOB PLAN The ophthalmology consultant job plan has 8 PAs of Direct Clinical Care (DCC) and 2 PAs of Supporting Professional Activities (SPA). F2F DCC is worked over three long days (8am 6pm) with SPA and DCC administration undertaken flexibly. The post-holder will also participate in the consultant on-call rota shared with the Royal Surrey County Hospital (1:18 weeks) and the local ophthalmology consultant of the week rota based at Ashford Hospital. For further information about this post, please contact: Anne Arthur (General Manager) anne.arthur@nhs.net Heidi Chittenden (Specialty Lead) heidi.chittenden@nhs.net