Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) for Ophthalmology
| Posting date: | 23 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £50,008.00 to £56,908.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £50008.00 - £56908.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 January 2026 |
| Location: | Harlow, CM20 1QX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9292-25-0466 |
Summary
Professionalism & Integrity 1. Be fully conversant and wholly accountable for your practice and maintaining your professional registration in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC). 2. Recognise the limits and gaps of individual competence and knowledge undertake and complete further training and academic qualifications as relevant to the role and service requirements. 3. Develop a culture of providing and accepting constructive feedback and use this to reflect on your own practice. Act as role model at all times. 4. Act with personal and professional integrity within professional, ethical and legal frameworks and process to maintain and improve standards of care and practice. 5. Take responsibility and maintain professional records of personal updates (portfolio of practice) to support revalidation. Be actively involved in professional development discussions and personal development plan as part of your annual appraisal. 6. Adhere to all trust policies, procedures, guidelines and standards, ensuring a high standard of personal and professional behaviour and dress is maintained at all times whilst acting as an ambassador for the trust. Duties and responsibilities Clinical Practice 1. Practice autonomously with a high level of accountability at a specialist level in the direct delivery of high-quality care, making critical clinical decisions based on advanced clinical skills assessment. 2. With support for the Consultant, be responsible for a caseload of patients and managing nurse led review clinics. 3. Assess, diagnosis and treat patients under the guidance from consultants and ANP, develop treatment plans within set guidelines, and record clinical findings using the department information systems, when necessary collaborate with the multi-professional and/or refer to the senior clinical colleagues as appropriate. 4. Challenge practice so that the best and most appropriate treatment is given to the patient; maintaining and monitoring high standards of care, recognising and responding proactively to patients’ changing clinical needs. 5. Maintain professional competence, authority and credibility by undertaking regular clinical sessions in line with your job plan and being highly visible to patients, carers and staff, actively seeking feedback about the quality of services. Collaborate in the establishment and monitoring of protocols/care pathways. 6. Actively participate in case discussions and multi-disciplinary team meetings, liaise with inter hospital departments/personnel across organisations and professional boundaries. 7. Undertake non-medical independent prescribing if required by service, in accordance with policies, current legislation and Patient Group Directions (PGD’s). 8. Supervise and support junior members of staff in the delivery of patient care. 9. Identify deteriorating patients and take the appropriate action to manage the situation, liaising with the multi-disciplinary team and external care providers as appropriate. 10. Have accountability for the correct administration, usage and storage of medicines including host cost drugs according to the trust policy to include the safe administration of medicines, controlled, intravenous and cytotoxic drugs.