- Full GMC Registration
- FRCS
- FRCOphth Desirable
- Entered on CCT Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCT or CESR
- MD/ other higher degree Experience
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in ophthalmology
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinics
- Demonstrable experience in Clinical Audit and Research Desirable
- Experience of risk management
- Experience in setting up multi-disciplinary clinics
- Virtual Clinics
- Laser surgery Skills
- Ability to lead efficient, well run clinics
- Ability to teach junior doctors and other clinical staff
- Ability to organize and manage clinical as well as administrative workload. Desirable
- Staff management: delegating, appraisal of performance, dealing with poor performance, motivating staff Personal
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in a team
- Caring attitude to patients Desirable
- Adaptable and willing to initiate and develop new ways of running clinical services. Employer details
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Description
Locum Consultant Ophthalmology
Employer Location Maidstone Salary £93,666 to £126,281 per annum/ pro rata Closing date 14 Feb 2024View more
Profession , , Grade Hours You need to or to save a job. Applications are invited for one fixed term locum consultant ophthalmology appointment in primary/emergency eye care at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.This is a new post, created with the aim of increasing the capacity to deliver primary/emergency eye care within our forward-thinking organisation. We expect the successful candidate to have the opportunity to apply for a substantive position in due course. The timetable and commitment will be to provide and develop the rapid access eye care service, this will include training and support for ophthalmology trainees, clinical nurse specialists, optometrists and orthoptists as well as support for nurse led triaging. There will also be an opportunity to participate in other subspecialties, including surgery, depending on the candidate's particular interests and skills.
Main duties of the job
EEMU has a busy Rapid Access department, optometric and orthoptic departments. There are two dedicated ophthalmic operating theatres at Maidstone and one dedicated theatre at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. With a stable management team, we are able to continually improve services and add to the already high levels of equipment provision in our department. Friday afternoon departmental teaching for all staff is consultant- led. Research interests are supported by active links with The University of Kent at Canterbury.
Residence requirements for this post are compatible with living in the outskirts of London, or in many attractive, rural parts of Kent. Kent has selective state schooling with a number of excellent state grammar schools in the vicinity of Maidstone.
About us
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trust's core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.
We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients cared for by you personally.
To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care.
To take equal share in providing subspecialty cover and covering for colleagues during period of absence. This will include electronic triage of referrals.
To take part in the support and training of junior Ophthalmologists and the development and training of medical students and ancillary allied professionals, including the development of the oculoplastic nurse specialist role.
To participate fully in the clinical governance activities of the specialty. To attend clinical governance half-days as in the job plan. To undertake annual appraisal leading to revalidation. To participate actively in departmental audits which may be included in the work you undertake.
To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trusts patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trusts strategic direction.
To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice including the Duties of a Doctor.
Person Specification
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Employer name
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Address
Maidstone Hospital
Hermitage Lane
Maidstone
ME16 9QQ
