Job summary
- Main area
- Orthoptist
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full Time 37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 225-DIV1-5911087-B
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Eye Infirmary, New Cross Hospital
- Town
- Wolverhampton
- Salary
- £28,407 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/05/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Specialist Orthoptist
Band 6
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a full-time band 6 Orthoptist to work within a team of 13 Orthoptists and 8 Ophthalmic Technicians working for Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, based at New Cross Hospital and Cannock Eye Centre.
Main duties of the job
Specific responsibilities of the post holder will be to be part of the clinic co-ordinators rotation, supervising the daily running of orthoptic clinics, undertaking clinical tuition of orthoptic undergraduate students & assisting the Head orthoptist with a range of operational duties.
A diploma/degree in Orthoptics and HPC registration is essential. The postholder will be expected to travel between the hospital sites at New Cross Hospital and Cannock Chase Hospital and various locations in the community to carry out clinics and visual screening.
The post would be suitable for an orthoptist, with at least 1 year’s post-graduation clinical experience, but we would also consider applications from newly qualified orthoptists; a successful applicant in this case would take up a band 5 post.
The successful applicant will need to be prepared to work compressed hours which will require undertaking some evening clinics. The working pattern will be negotiated with the successful applicant.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties will include a varied Orthoptic case-load plus specialist ocular-motility, paediatric ophthalmology and stroke clinics; Receiving secondary & tertiary referrals, primary & secondary screening visual screening in clinics, schools & special schools.
Specific responsibilities of the post holder will be to be part of the clinic co-ordinators rotation, supervising the daily running of orthoptic clinics, undertaking clinical tuition of orthoptic undergraduate students & assisting the Head orthoptist with a range of operational duties.
Person specification
Degree in Orthoptics
Essential criteria
- post-graduation experience
Desirable criteria
- Single handed specialist hospital based clinics
- Experience of a specialist case load
- Additional experience at post graduate diploma level
Patient Communication
Desirable criteria
- Ability to amend nature of communication for high caseload of special needs/learning difficulties
- Ability to communicate information and prognosis for a range of health defects including visual impairment, which may be of a sensitive nature and have consequences for patients’ education, career and lifestyle.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Catherine McKeown
- Job title
- Assistant Head of Orthoptics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01902 695830
- Additional information
Shelagh Baynham, Head Orthoptist and Head of Optometry 01902 695852
Catherine McKeown Assistant Head of Orthoptics 01902 695830
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