Orthoptist - London, United Kingdom - King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Due to an internal promotion we have an exciting opportunity for an Orthoptist to join our friendly and forward-looking team.

King's serves a dynamic, diverse and vibrant local population, providing a wide range of tertiary and specialist services. The Ophthalmology Department at King's is large, with 19 consultants covering all sub-specialities of ophthalmology. We have a large ophthalmology research office, supporting a varied range of research projects.

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Orthoptist, who is a keen learner and is enthusiastic to develop their practice in order to deliver patient centred care.

You will be guided through competency training and funding is available to complete medical exemption courses.

To work within the multidisciplinary team working autonomously as an orthoptist managing a wide and complex clinical caseload.
Responsibilities will also involve working in specialist clinics including perimetry and extended roles.
To provide high quality evidence based orthoptic care to diagnose, plan, implement and monitor treatment.
To teach orthoptic and ophthalmic colleagues.
To ensure, individually and as part of the team, the effective and efficient running of the ophthalmology service.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.

The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan.

In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.

By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King's to another level.

To be involved in the following highly specialist clinics: