Overview
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This post is a specialist Optometry clinical role delivering community Optometry clinics for patients in Bury, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale. The Community Eye Service is a multidisciplinary service providing a wide range of core, advanced and extended practice clinics across Bury and Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, including Orthoptic, Optometry, Glaucoma, Low Vision, SEND, Stroke and Visual Processing Difficulties Clinics. This is a community based service but we also provide Orthoptic and low vision clinics to the Ophthalmology team at Rochdale Infirmary. We work with a number of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams and can provide experience of diverse work.
Our well established team invites innovation and new ideas, anyone showing enthusiasm for Optometry and care for the patients will be given a warm welcome.
Responsibilities
* To be an Optometry lead within the Community Eye Services.
* To assess, diagnose and manage patients referred to the optometry department. This post is based within the community and carries a specialist caseload delivering a highly complex Optometric service and a comprehensive range of core services.
* To provide teaching and training of other healthcare professionals, junior doctors and other senior medical staff.
About the Trust
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
Contact for informal visits
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alison Wilson Job title: Head of Community Eye Service Email: Alison.wilson2@nca.nhs.uk Telephone: 07895213194. Please contact between 9-5pm for more details/arrange informal visit.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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