Optometrist Specialist

Job summary

Are you passionate about patient care? Do you want to expand your clinical knowledge and experience? Do you want to work with a fantastic multi-disciplinary team? We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and compassionate individual to work in an extended clinical role in our Optometric Services Team within Ophthalmology in East Kent.

The post will involve triage and managing patients in the urgent eye service, paediatric refractions, specialist contact lens fitting, virtual glaucoma review and much more. Our clinics generally run Monday to Friday between 8am and 6pm.

Main duties of the job

The specific extended roles we are currently recruiting are:

Acute eye referral triage/advice and assessment of patients as part of the Urgent Eye Service team at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford (training will be provided for this role)

Paediatric cycloplegic refraction and fundus examination at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury with autonomous clinical management plan.

Possible training in the glaucoma service including face to face independent optom clinics and virtual review.

Optometric examination of patients enrolled with clinical trials at EKHUFT

Assist in the training of Ophthalmic Technicians and other staff as necessary

Assist in the collection of data for Clinical Audit, when requested

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

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