Orthoptist

Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust


Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Harlow
Contract type: Part time
This role will involve the diagnosis and management of paediatric and adult ocular motility patients. Including patients from the Emergency Eye clinic, Maxillofacial and Neurology. This post offers an excellent opportunity to develop into extended roles. You will be taking an extended role in subspecialty within ophthalmology and will be fully supported using the new OCCCF by internal consultants and management.

Why You Should Join Our Team

  • Friendly team of experienced Orthoptists, Optometrists and x2 Paediatric, Neuro-ophthalmology and ocular motility specialist Consultant Ophthalmologists.
  • Opportunity to expand clinical and practical knowledge
  • Close to London- easy commute

What We Offer In Terms Of L&D

  • Preceptorship/mentoring if more experience required
  • Opportunity to see and manage own cases
  • To teach and train junior staff, GP's, nursing team, doctors, MDT and audit trainings
  • Opportunity to be student supervisor/clinical tutor
  • Orthoptic extended roles: paediatric, complex ocular motility, neuro-ophthalmology with goldmann assessment, pre and post-op assessments, assisting in squint surgery under supervision of Paediatric consultants, independent specialist clinics.
  • Extended role in specialties such as neuro-ophthalmology, medical retina, glaucoma, eye emergency etc using the OCCCF/OPT programme and competencies

This is a part-time role at 31 hours per week permanent role

Main duties will include providing Orthoptic services as an autonomous practitioner, assessing, diagnosing and managing patients referred to the Orthoptic Department with evidence based practice, determining clinical diagnoses and developing management plans, and walking patients through discharge plans.

If successful, the post holder will form part of the clinical team providing a full range of Orthoptic care to patients.

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise To Our Patients As Identified By Our 3 Values Which Will Contribute To Improving Our Patient Experiences

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sonia Edmon Job title: Ophthalmology Matron Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01279 978915

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