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Orthoptist
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Orthoptist
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Orthoptist
1 week ago
Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford, United Kingdom PermanentJob summary · Newly qualified applicants welcome · We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated new member of our team to work in Herefordshire and beyond. We provide Orthoptic services in Herefordshire, Gwent, Powys and Shropshire. · Your orthoptic workload will be extremely v ...
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Specialist Orthoptist
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Specialist Orthoptist
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Band 5 Orthoptist
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Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Gloucester, United KingdomAn exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Orthoptist to join the team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for a fixed-term period of 12 months. The post is based at Cheltenham General and Gloucester Royal Hospitals and will include single-handed communit ...
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Orthoptist - Preceptorship
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Specialist Orthoptist
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Allied Health Professional Return to Practice
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Allied Health Professional Return to Practice
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Allied Health Professional Return to Practice
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Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford, United KingdomAllied Health Professionals - Please note this offer is for professions recognised by the HCPC only · Are you a qualified AHP, who has had a break from their profession for longer than 2 years but is looking to 'Return to Practice'? have you previously been on the HCPC register b ...
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Optometry Administrator, Band 3
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IVT Development Role Ophthalmology
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Ahp Return to Practice
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Part-Time Optometrist
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Optometrist - Band 6
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Optometrist - Band 6
1 week ago
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cheltenham, United Kingdom PermanentJob summary · A vacancy has arisen for a part time (30 hours per week) band 6 optometrist to join the optometry team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS foundation trust. We are seeking an enthusiastic optometrist who is keen to develop their clinical skills and progress their spec ...
Orthoptist - Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom - Wye Valley NHS Trust
Description
Newly qualified applicants welcomeYour orthoptic workload will be extremely varied including paediatric, ocular motility and acute cases via our busy eye casualty.
We have an Orthoptic led vision screening programme, an established Stroke Service, and undertake pre-operative biometry and Goldmann visual fields.
We currently have medical, pre-reg optometry students and as of September 2024 will be accepting Undergraduate Orthoptic Students.
You will be expected to develop and maintain a high quality Orthoptic service in line with recognised professional standards, care -pathways and best practice to deliver the business objectives in line with Trusts policies and protocols.
We have recently developed and improved our Orthoptic provision for children with special educational needs, cerebral visual impairment and neurodivergence.
Applicants must have a degree/diploma in Orthoptics and current registration with the HCPC, we welcome newly qualified applicants and Newly qualified Orthoptists will be supported by the WVT trust led AHP preceptorship program alongside the Orthoptic preceptorship program.
To provide a comprehensive and high quality Orthoptic service for patients referred to the Ophthalmology department.To assess patients pre-operatively and provide measurements on which surgery for ocular motility problems may be based.
To instil dilating and cycloplegic drops for ophthalmic investigation in accordance with the medical exemptions and/or patient group direction in line with Trust drug policy.
To explain, demonstrate and offer teaching of Orthoptic principles and procedures to junior medical staff, medical students, optometrists, health visitors, student nurses and health care professionals.
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
To have good organisational and planning skills
Basic knowledge of IT skills Typing letters, reports, inputting audit data
Hereford County Hospital
