Oculoplastic Junior Fellow | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £52,656 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 April 2026 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 5JR |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7859082/432-MC2827 |
Summary
The post holder will have clinical sessions at the Primary Care Centre, Turner Road and Clacton Hospital.
This post offers an exciting opportunity for clinical and surgical fellowship for the period of one year (with the possibility to extend for another year), offering intensive supervised and independent operating in most aspects of oculoplastics & lacrimal & cataract surgery.
The post will offer exposure to a broad range of medical and surgical management of oculoplastics, lacrimal and orbital patients. The post-holder will work closely with our consultant oculoplastic surgeon, offering considerable surgical training opportunities including complex eyelid reconstruction, external dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) and cataract surgery. The post holder will attend skin cancer and head & neck MDTs.
The post-holder will be eventually expected to perform independent oculoplastics surgical lists, and may need to cover femto-second laser cataract lists.
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 organisation 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 have invested in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation has brought 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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This post offers an exciting opportunity for clinical and surgical fellowship , offering intensive supervised and independent operating in most aspects of oculoplastics & lacrimal & cataract surgery.
This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Mar 2026