Band 5/6 Orthoptist - Salisbury, United Kingdom - Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

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Salisbury, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the expanding, friendly Orthoptic team in Salisbury Hospital. Applications are welcomed from an enthusiastic and self-motivated Orthoptist, interest/experience of working within an extended role is an advantage.

The successful applicant will be well supported by Orthoptists and the wider multidisciplinary team consisting of Consultant Ophthalmologists, all with various sub-specialty interests, in addition to junior doctors, Optometrists and Ophthalmic nurses.

Applications are welcomed from newly and recently qualified Orthoptists, in addition to those with experience. New/recent graduates would start as Band 5 working towards Band 6, following the BIOS preceptorship. Preceptorship will take minimum of 12 months.

This is a full time, permanent position, however flexible working requests are welcomed.

Orthoptic clinics will involve adult and paediatric Orthoptic only clinics as well as regular joint Paediatric Ophthalmology, Strabismus, Neuro and refraction clinics.

In addition to these clinics the successful applicant will be involved in community, specialist thyroid and stroke clinics, depending on experience.

The Orthoptic team also support the Acute Referral (Emergency Eye) Clinic clinics as required.

The department is very supportive of further extended scope work e.g. pre and post-op cataract assessment, AMD clinics (inc. IVT/injections) etc. We are keen to expand our variety of extended roles. A desire to undertake such roles (with training) would be desirable.

The department regularly participates in the training of Pre-registration Optometrists, junior doctors and other staff groups so an interest in, or experience of, work as a clinical educator would be advantageous.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us.

Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre.

We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding.

You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.

On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities