Specialist Optometrist - George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Role: Specialist Optometrist (paediatric experience required)
Hours: 22.5 hours per week (full-time will be considered). Permanent.
Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum, pro rata
Closing Date: 28 September 2025
Interview Date: TBC
Responsibilities
* To undertake full range of Optometry Services as required, providing expert treatment and advice.
* To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients resulting in the safe management of patients, autonomously formulate appropriate management plans for patients.
* Demonstrate a critical understanding of own level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information.
* Prescribe and review medication (as an independent prescriber) for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to patient need and in accordance with best/evidence-based practice and national and local protocols and within the role’s scope of practice and legal framework.
* Ability to order and interpret diagnostic pathological, microbial, and/or radiographic investigations (e.g. blood tests, ocular swabs, MRI etc) using findings to initiate treatment.
* To develop virtual clinics, within own advanced sub-specialty role, in line with the service demands. Developed scope of advanced clinical skills and practice to meet changing needs of service.
* Need for high levels of continuous concentration requiring working under significant pressure, with frequent interruptions from other clinical staff requiring advice.
* To support consultants on the day of surgery by conducting slit lamp examinations to ensure all patient history remains up to date.
About the Organisation and Values
Our vision is to excel at patient care. We are an evolving, clinically-led acute service provider committed to high standards of quality, safety and patient care. We value effective open communication, excellence and safety, challenging but supporting staff, respect and dignity, local health that inspires confidence.
Benefits
On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in-house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
How to apply / Contact
For further details or informal visits contact: Name: Afnan Akhtar, Operational Manager
Email: afnan.akhtar@geh.nhs.uk
Telephone: 07392 194746
We are happy to support candidates who are either interested or have started their independent prescribing course.
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