Advance Medical Retina Specialist | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 05 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 04 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Colchester, CO4 5JL |
| Cwmni: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7663875/432-HR1000-25 |
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East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a passionate, forward-thinking Advance Retina Specialist to join our dynamic and expanding Ophthalmology Department.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work at one of the largest and most innovative NHS Trusts in the region, delivering high-quality care to a diverse patient population.
At ESNEFT, we pride ourselves on clinical excellence, collaborative teamwork, and continuous development. You’ll be part of a supportive, multidisciplinary service that encourages autonomy, advanced practice, and expanded clinical skills.
As an Advanced Retina Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in delivering expert assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients with retinal disease. Working closely with consultants and the wider ophthalmic team, you will contribute to high-impact clinical pathways and help shape modern retina services.
• To provide a range of extended specialist role services.
• Working as an autonomous registered practitioner with significant experience in an ophthalmology extended role providing high quality, individualised clinical management for patients with retinal diseases using advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to determine and initiate changes to treatment as necessary.
• Act as a specialist clinical expert in direct contact care, able to make high level skills decisions, informed by advanced history taking, diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills. To be responsible and accountable for own decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice
• To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients resulting in the safe management of patients, autonomously formulate appropriate management plans for patients
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of own level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Dec 2025