Corneal & External Eye Disease Fellow in Ophthalmology
| Posting date: | 08 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £65,048 - £73,992 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 September 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7406402/317-TD-25-218 |
Summary
A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Corneal & External Eye Disease Fellow in The Department of Ophthalmology based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.
The 2 posts are available from February 2026 for a period of 12 months.
The appointment is suitable for ophthalmologists who are at, or near, the end of their periods of Higher Surgical Training and who wish to secure further training and experience in cornea and external eye diseases with a view to practising at consultant level in these subspecialties.
The training supervisors would be Professor Francisco Figueiredo, Mr Jaswant Sandhu, Mrs Ashwini Ranganath and Mr Ahmed Ragab to whom the appointee would be directly responsible in all clinical matters.
Fellows work under the supervision of the subspecialty-trained Consultants. Fellows have clinical and surgical duties as directed by the Consultants. The fellowship introduces the trainees to all aspects of diseases of the anterior segment of the eye, with the objective to further develop their skills in examination, diagnosis, treatment, and surgical procedures. With increasing experience through the year, the post holder can expect to perform corneal surgery procedures (i.e., DSAEK, DMEK, PKP, DALK, complex cataract surgery, pterygium excision combined with conjunctival autograft, amniotic membrane transplantation, collagen crosslinking among others) as first surgeon, and directly assisted by the Consultant.
Applicants will be consideredwhether or notthey have already done a Corneal Fellowship/ASTO elsewhere, but full competence & proficiency in phacoemulsification cataract surgery is essential. Job holder surgical progress will be highly dependent on their surgical ability and previous surgical experience.
Fellows also work closely with other ophthalmology trainees and medical students rotating through our department. Fellows are responsible for case/research presentations at weekly teaching, and participation in didactic lectures & ward rounds with the Consultant.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
1. Corneal surgery including penetrating keratoplasty alone or in combination with other anterior segment procedures such as cataract surgery, endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK, DMEK), deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK), autologous keratoepithelioplasty,ex vivolimbal and oral mucosa stem cell transplantation, amniotic membrane transplantation, pterygium excision, corneal glue (including Tisseel & Histoacryl), temporary keratoprosthesis and collagen crosslinking;
2. External diseases including the diagnosis and management of dry eye/blepharitis, all types of infections, immune, inherited dystrophies, traumatic and protozoan diseases;
3. Contact lens, corneal topography/tomography, keratoconus, and management of lens-related complications;
4. Non Laser refractive surgery including relaxing keratotomy and management of surgically induced astigmatism;
5. Eye station (methods and administration of ocular tissue for research and transplantation);
6. Small-incision, clear-corneal phacoemulsification cataract surgery and
7. Diagnostic specular, in vivo confocal microscopy, LipiView Meibography and anterior segment OCT.
This advert closes on Friday 29 Aug 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Corneal & External Eye Disease Fellow in The Department of Ophthalmology based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.
The 2 posts are available from February 2026 for a period of 12 months.
The appointment is suitable for ophthalmologists who are at, or near, the end of their periods of Higher Surgical Training and who wish to secure further training and experience in cornea and external eye diseases with a view to practising at consultant level in these subspecialties.
The training supervisors would be Professor Francisco Figueiredo, Mr Jaswant Sandhu, Mrs Ashwini Ranganath and Mr Ahmed Ragab to whom the appointee would be directly responsible in all clinical matters.
Fellows work under the supervision of the subspecialty-trained Consultants. Fellows have clinical and surgical duties as directed by the Consultants. The fellowship introduces the trainees to all aspects of diseases of the anterior segment of the eye, with the objective to further develop their skills in examination, diagnosis, treatment, and surgical procedures. With increasing experience through the year, the post holder can expect to perform corneal surgery procedures (i.e., DSAEK, DMEK, PKP, DALK, complex cataract surgery, pterygium excision combined with conjunctival autograft, amniotic membrane transplantation, collagen crosslinking among others) as first surgeon, and directly assisted by the Consultant.
Applicants will be consideredwhether or notthey have already done a Corneal Fellowship/ASTO elsewhere, but full competence & proficiency in phacoemulsification cataract surgery is essential. Job holder surgical progress will be highly dependent on their surgical ability and previous surgical experience.
Fellows also work closely with other ophthalmology trainees and medical students rotating through our department. Fellows are responsible for case/research presentations at weekly teaching, and participation in didactic lectures & ward rounds with the Consultant.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
1. Corneal surgery including penetrating keratoplasty alone or in combination with other anterior segment procedures such as cataract surgery, endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK, DMEK), deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK), autologous keratoepithelioplasty,ex vivolimbal and oral mucosa stem cell transplantation, amniotic membrane transplantation, pterygium excision, corneal glue (including Tisseel & Histoacryl), temporary keratoprosthesis and collagen crosslinking;
2. External diseases including the diagnosis and management of dry eye/blepharitis, all types of infections, immune, inherited dystrophies, traumatic and protozoan diseases;
3. Contact lens, corneal topography/tomography, keratoconus, and management of lens-related complications;
4. Non Laser refractive surgery including relaxing keratotomy and management of surgically induced astigmatism;
5. Eye station (methods and administration of ocular tissue for research and transplantation);
6. Small-incision, clear-corneal phacoemulsification cataract surgery and
7. Diagnostic specular, in vivo confocal microscopy, LipiView Meibography and anterior segment OCT.
This advert closes on Friday 29 Aug 2025
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