Medical Retina Clinical Fellow

An opportunity has arisen to join our team at Colchester Hospital within Ophthalmology.

The successful applicant will be expected to participate actively in the diagnosis, management and follow-up of patients with retinal diseases both under supervision and on his/her own. This is a full-time clinical fellowship post for a fixed term period of 12 months with possibility to extend.

The post-holder will be expected to take part in teaching, research and audit and will also need to keep abreast with the constant change that the Ophthalmology department requires to ensure that it runs efficiently.

It will give the opportunity of extensive clinical exposure to the diagnosis and management of Retinal conditions. The post may allow the post holder to develop essential competences to progress towards Article 14. We are committed to provide experience in specialist clinics and surgery according to a personal development plan. These include Medical and Surgical Retina, Uveitis, Diabetic Eye disease, Age Related Macular Degeneration. There is a plan to start photodynamic therapy for Pachycormid diseases including CSR subject to availability of dye.

The post holder will be expected to attend and contribute to the department’s teaching sessions held on Friday afternoon.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients’ own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.

We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites – totalling £100million over the next five years.

We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.

We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.

At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There’s a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children’s Unit.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mr Vivek Bansal Job title: Consultant Ophthalmologist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01206 747474

Requests for visits to the unit should be made to:

Mr Vivek Bansal, Consultant Ophthalmologist, email- [email protected]

Linzi Willsher, Service Coordinator Ophthalmology, email – [email protected]