Job overview
You will work alongside consultants in patient facing and virtual glaucoma clinics.
Working closely with the multi-professional Glaucoma team, delivering outpatient services, you will liaise with other services within the Ophthalmology department.
You are a highly skilled clinician with a commitment to professional & personal development & an enthusiasm for complex clinical work and service innovation. You have a high level of clinical experience in glaucoma which will enable you to work independently & collaboratively in order to deliver excellent care. Your highly developed specialist knowledge has been evidenced by Higher Qualifications in Glaucoma, which you are actively working towards gaining if you’ve not already completed.
Keen to be fully engaged with the department, and to contribute to team development as well as clinical service delivery, you will be able to provide high quality supervision and teaching as well as actively input into audit and clinical governance.
We are a long established and expanding Ophthalmology department. We work collaboratively with our multi professional team to provide a high level of care for our patients across the county. We strive to provide good working environments & offer flexible working arrangements to maximise job satisfaction.
Main duties of the job
To personally deliver a wide range of highly specialised clinical services and to provide expert opinion and advanced practice. To provide autonomous and collaborative face to face and virtual clinical care in Glaucoma.
To be responsible for the clinical and policy development of the Glaucoma service along with the clinical and department leads.
To be responsible for and participate in clinical audit, teaching and research.
To devise and implement new strategies to meet the demands of the service.
To lead and grow a team of specialist optometrists and nurses to deliver stand alone clinics and support established consultant led clinics.
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
1. As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
2. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
3. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
4. We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
5. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
6. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
7. A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.
What do we stand for?
8. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
9. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
10. Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
11. BSc Honours degree in Optometry or Batchelor’s Degree in nursing, health or management related studies or BSc in Orthoptics
12. Masters level qualification/ in progress or equivalent experience
13. Be an independent prescriber (or willing to work towards), depending on clinical sub-speciality
14. Registration with the General Optical Council as an Optometrist or First level registered Nurse or Registration with HCPC
Desirable criteria
15. Certified speciality courses or equivalent self-directed learning and experience if no formal qualification available
Experience
Essential criteria
16. Broad expert clinical experience relevant to the post, including specialist skills and experience in Glaucoma
17. Experience of running own clinics
18. Minimum of five years’ post-registration experience including work at band 7 or above.
19. Proven track record of significant broad based post-registration experience relevant to the post, including specialist skills and experience in speciality
20. Proven track record of clinical senior management at a senior level in an acute hospital environment including staff/financial and change management.
21. Patient diagnosis based on autonomously performed structured clinical history and appropriate clinical examinations; ordering/performing/interpreting (as appropriate) investigations; prescription of appropriate treatment if applicable; supported by a high standard of documentation.
22. Robust evidence of own continuing personal and professional development.
23. Ability to demonstrate excellent theoretical and clinical knowledge and skills applicable to this area of practice.
24. Work as an autonomous practitioner using own initiative, and work as a team member
25. Experience of teaching patients and staff and others
Desirable criteria
26. Be able to work across specific, similar, clinical areas supported by clinical knowledge and expertise
27. Performance of Annual and intermediate Performance Review for junior colleagues
Skills
Essential criteria
28. Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a speciality with a wide range of approaches to the management of patients, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning and be able to comprehensively assess patients for risk factors and early signs of illness or deterioration.
29. Ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team; within the organisation and across organisational boundaries
30. To be able to identify and implement systems to promote their contribution and demonstrate the impact of ACP to the health care team and the wider health and social care sector
31. Ability to draw on a diverse range of knowledge in their decision making to determine evidence based therapeutic interventions (which usually involve prescribing medication and actively monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
32. Excellent time management skills
33. Excellent written and verbal communication skills demonstrating the use of a variety of IT/media skills
34. Evidence of managing clinical services, service innovation and up to date knowledge of clinical policy Plus Successful change management experience and track record of launching new initiatives.
35. Ability to manage change and conflict resolution with positive outcomes by way of negotiation
36. Ability to translate and integrate evidence based research/guidelines into the development of local care pathways.
37. Ability to develop relationships locally, regionally and nationally
38. Demonstrate strong leadership skills in sometimes unfamiliar/complex/unpredictable situations. Provide consultancy services to their own and other professions on therapeutic interventions, practice and service development
39. Strong communications skills demonstrated through delivery of presentations and producing articles
Desirable criteria
40. Ability to critically appraise and synthesis the outcomes or relevant research evaluations and audits
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
I f you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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