Overview
We are looking to appoint an innovative and high performing Substantive Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in Medical Retina, providing sub-specialty out-patient clinics and oversee 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.
Responsibilities
* Provide specialist Consultant Led out-patient medical retina clinics: Macular, RVO, DMO, Stable macular virtual clinics, and support sub-speciality clinics where appropriate.
* Support Emergency clinics where appropriate.
* Oversee a non-medical injection service.
* Teach and educate 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.
About the 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 team also benefits from our Eye Clinic Liaison Officer and 6 Ophthalmology Failsafe Coordinators (with a dedicated Medical Retina Failsafe) along with a supportive senior management team within the Head and Neck Directorate.
Education and service development
To 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.
Locations and digital capability
CHFT has 2 main sites, Ophthalmology being based in Acre Mills Out-patients, Huddersfield and Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax. 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 currently one of the most paper-light and digitised Ophthalmology Departments in the country including the use of Medisight by all clinical teams, and our planned/on-going work will make us a national leader in this area.
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