Glaucoma Specialist Coh - Colchester, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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Colchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Glaucoma Specialist to join our already established Ophthalmology team in Colchester Hospital.

You will provide clinical, professional and strategic leadership of Glaucoma Services within department.


Your responsibilities will include the management and delivery of direct clinical care to glaucoma patients and follow up care and discharge summaries.

This post is a permanent role, full time

  • 37.5 hours per week and it is open for Nurses, AHP's, Orthoptists and Optometrists.


If you are energetic, enthusiastic and would like to join our friendly team, we would like to hear from you.


To be recognised as a clinical expert in Glaucoma ensuring all advise and services provided are evidence-based and in line with national and local policies and guidelines.


To act as an advanced autonomous practitioner who is professionally and legally accountable and responsible for all aspects of work including decisions about treatment and management of highly complex patients.


To demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning and decision-making by analysing highly complex facts or situations which maybe conflicting thus requiring an appraisal of a range of options.


To communicate highly complex and sensitive information using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, such as would be required when dealing with patients (and their relatives) with life limiting conditions and poor prognosis.


One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area.

We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.


Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata).

Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone.

Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.


To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.


If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
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