Overview
Consultant Ophthalmologist - specialist in Medical Retina. We are looking to appoint an innovative and high performing Substantive Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in Medical Retina, providing sub-specialty out-patient clinics and overseeing a non-medical injection service.
The medical retina service continues to transform and initiate new models and pathways of care to meet the needs of the local population by implementing best practice.
This advert closes on Friday 27 Mar 2026.
Department and Team
The department comprises 22 Consultants, 10 Specialty and Trust Grade Doctors, 4 Specialty trainees, 2 Nurse Practitioners, 10 Orthoptists, 5 Optometrists, 2 ACPs and a substantial team of Ophthalmic Nurses, technicians and healthcare assistants. The Eye Clinic Liaison Officer and 6 Ophthalmology Failsafe Coordinators (with a dedicated Medical Retina Failsafe) operate alongside a supportive senior management team within the Head and Neck Directorate.
Responsibilities
* Provide specialist Consultant Led out-patient medical retina clinics: Macular, RVO, DMO, stable macular virtual clinics.
* Support sub-speciality clinics where appropriate.
* Support Emergency clinics where appropriate.
* Provide teaching and education to trainees, Trust doctors, Optometrists, Orthoptists, Nurse practitioners to enhance future models of care and expansion within the specialty.
* Opportunity to work with service leads to conduct service improvement, transformation and research.
* Opportunity to provide emergency on-call and cataract surgery depending on experience.
Location
CHFT has 2 main sites, Ophthalmology based in Acre Mills Out-patients, Huddersfield and Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax.
Technology and Practice
The Trust is currently one of the most digitised NHS Trusts in the country, having moved to Cerner Millennium Electronic Patient Records (EPR) in 2017. This makes us one of the most paper-light and digitised Ophthalmology Departments in the country, including the use of Medisight by all clinical teams, with planned work to continue leadership in this area.
Application
Please refer to the attached job description for full details.
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