Specialist Optometrist | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 October 2025 |
| Location: | Bury, BL9 0SN |
| Company: | Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7380355/236-BCO-P424-25 |
Summary
The Community Eye Service is a multidisciplinary service providing a wide range of core, advanced and extended practice clinics across Bury and Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, including Orthoptic, Optometry, Glaucoma, Low Vision, SEND, Stroke and Visual Processing Difficulties Clinics. This is a community based service but we also provide Orthoptic and low vision clinics to the Ophthalmology team at Rochdale Infirmary. We work with a number of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams and can provide experience of diverse work.
This post is a specialist Optometry clinical role delivering community Optometry clinics for patients in Bury, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale.
Our well established team invites innovation and new ideas , anyone showing enthusiasm for Optometry and care for the patients will be given a warm welcome.
· To be an Optometry lead within the Community Eye Services.
· To assess, diagnose and manage patients referred to the optometry department. This post is based within the community and carries a specialist caseload delivering a highly complex Optometric service and a comprehensive range of core services.
· To provide teaching and training of other healthcare professionals, junior doctors and other senior medical staff.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
This advert closes on Monday 22 Sep 2025
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