Overview
The Community Eye Service is a multidisciplinary service providing 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, and 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. This post is a specialist Optometry clinical role delivering community Optometry clinics for patients in Bury, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale.
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 and role components
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. To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The NCA is proud to serve a diverse population and is committed to delivering inclusive, accessible care. We value individuality and aim to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Applications are welcomed from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and beliefs. We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]
Vacancies may close early if sufficient applications are received, or if an internal redeployee has been identified. For fixed-term roles, current NHS staff will be considered for secondments, while fixed-term contracts will be offered to external (non-NHS) applicants. The NCA does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies. Read more about this here.
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