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Senior Clinical Fellow in Ophthalmology
3 months ago
The post holder will be expected to work closely with colleagues and management in developing the ability of the department to respond to operational pressures together with clinical governance and longer-term service strategies.
Proposed Outline Job Plan for the post holder will include as a minimum 1 theatre session, 1 admin, 1 audit/study plus specialty/general clinics and laser sessions dependent on your level of competence and the subspecialty.
On Call Arrangements
The post holder will be required to participate in a 1 in 6 on call rota.
Administrative Arrangements
The successful applicant will have access to office accommodation and secretarial support.
The post holder will have a named Mentor within the Directorate.
Continuing Professional Development and Research
The post holder would be expected to develop and maintain a programme of continuing professional development in accordance with the recommendations of the NHS and the Royal College of Ophthalmology.
The post holder would also be expected to contribute to the research output in the department, and support current ongoing projects during his/her research sessions.
Introduction & BackgroundThe successful applicant will join a Consultant led clinical team covering all aspects of Ophthalmology services. This is a fixed term post for twelve months.
The Eye Unit provides a comprehensive Ophthalmology service with a catchment area of approximately 521,000 people.
The service encompasses of outpatient clinics (conducted at the Royal Blackburn and Burnley General Teaching Hospitals), an emergency eye service at Burnley General Teaching Hospital and a dedicated twin theatre suite based on the Burnley site.
The current medical staff is as follows:
Mrs Mey Mohan
Clinical Director (Paediatrics)
Vacant post - Locum in situ
Consultant (Surgical Retina)
Mr Hasan Usmani
Consultant (Glaucoma and cornea)
Miss Salwa Abugreen
Consultant (Medical Retina)
Mr Bertie Fernando
Consultant (Eyelid, Lacrimal and Oculoplastics)
Mr Chintan Sanghvi
Consultant (Diabetes and Medical Retina)
Mr Philip David
Consultant (Surgical Retina)
Mr Vikas Shankar
Consultant (Glaucoma)
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in 2003 from the merger of Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust and the Burnley Hospitals NHS Trust.
Services are provided from two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital. The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Phase V at Burnley General Teaching Hospital are significant PFI developments.
In 2006 a service reconfiguration, 'meeting patients needs' was implemented which resulted in the Blackburn site becoming the centre for all acute services in East Lancashire.
The ED at Blackburn is the only ED for East Lancashire and since 2012 has become a Trauma Unit in the Lancashire Trauma network with the trauma centre at the Royal Preston Hospital.
The ED is supported by Urgent Care Centres at Blackburn and Burnley and a Minor Injuries Unit at Accrington.Burnley is the site for the East Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre with an in-patient obstetric unit. There is a midwife led birthing unit off the Hospital site in Blackburn
In 2012 the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital was designated as one of the Lancashire Vascular Centres.
The Trust has close links with a number of Tertiary Centres in Lancashire, Manchester and Liverpool.
The medical team work closely with the nursing team and also with a range of technical, orthoptic and optometrist staff who offer support with visual field tests, OCT, photography, Glaucoma screening, follow up and other extended clinical roles.
The outpatient department is a purpose built unit consisting of clinic rooms with state of the art computer and digital dictation equipment.
There are dedicated rooms for visual field assessment, orthoptic assessment, OCT, FFA, Pascal, SLT and YAG Laser, Intravitreal injections and Minor Operations.
ClinicsA variety of general and specialist clinics take place. These include Cataract, Medical Retina, Cornea, Diabetic Eye Disease, Macular, Glaucoma, Paediatric Ophthalmology, Oculoplastics and Intravitreal injections. In addition there are Nurse led A&E, Cataract, Glaucoma and Intravitreal injection clinics.
The Unit also runs an emergency service based at Burnley General Teaching Hospital.
Surgery
The Unit performs around 4,686 operations a year of which a significant proportion are Phacoemulsificati
