Job summary
- Main area
- Ophthalmology - Glaucoma
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 328-HNO-MED-7496884
- Employer
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The James Cook University Hospital
- Town
- Middlesbrough
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Locum Consultant in Ophthalmology – Complex Glaucoma
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
The Department of Ophthalmology at James Cook University Hospital is looking to appoint an NHS Locum consultant ophthalmologist with a view to making substantive to augment the services we provide at South Tees NHS Trust.
The department is a cohesive unit which has steadily expanded over the last ten years covering all major sub speciality areas within ophthalmology. The candidate should have appropriate surgical and clinical experience to undertake specialist care in the relevant subspecialty area. Within the hospital and department there are established research facilities and there will be opportunities to contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate education.
The department is specifically looking to appoint a candidate with subspecialty training in glaucoma and relevant experience in complex secondary glaucomas including uveitis and post-trauma cases and surgical management including the use of aqueous shunts.
Main duties of the job
· The post holder will maintain the highest clinical standards in the practice of complex glaucoma
· The post holder will join the on-call rota on a 1 in 16/18 rota (with prospective cover in DCC).
· The candidate will possess the appropriate surgical and clinical experience to undertake specialist care in the relevant subspecialty area.
· The post holder will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate education
· The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team
· A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and their Clinical Director on behalf of the Medical Director three months after the commencement date of the appointment.
· The job plan should be reviewed annually. It will cover all aspects of a consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities, including a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external. It should include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service objectives and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives.
Working for our organisation
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have formally agreed to form a group structure to enable closer working across the two organisations.
The group model means that the two organisations remain separate so they can represent their communities really effectively, but it has the flexibility to enable the trusts to work at scale to take strategic decisions which benefit the group as a whole and the patients we serve.
This is not a merger. Both trusts remain as separate organisations – keeping their own existing identities and names – but going forward, when they are working together, they can now collectively be known as University Hospitals Tees.
The two trusts are the area’s largest employers, with a budget of around £1.2billion and more than 15,000 staff who deliver acute, tertiary and community health and care services across the Tees Valley, North Yorkshire, County Durham and beyond. University Hospitals Tees will deliver better outcomes for:
- Patients – by ensuring equal access to treatment and sharing best practice on how to deliver care.
- Staff – by enabling them to work on all of the group’s sites more easily and develop career opportunities.
- The wider population – by collaborating to work on endemic health issues and having a coherent voice to represent the people of the Tees Valley and parts of County Durham and North Yorkshire.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for the main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- • Full GMC registration
- • FRCOphth or equivalent
- • Relevant CCT or equivalent (‘equivalence’ must be confirmed by PMETB/GMC by date of AAC)
- • Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register or eligibility for entry within 6 months of the date of the AAC
Desirable criteria
- • Training in appraisal techniques
Clinical experience and effectiveness
Essential criteria
- • Extensive experience in General Ophthalmology
- • Subspecialist experience in Glaucoma, including management of complex cases (with experience of aqueous shunts)
- • Recognised subspeciality fellowship or good evidence of subspecialty practice in a recognised medical institution
- • Understanding of quality improvement activities such as audit
Desirable criteria
- • Understanding of service development within the specialty of Glaucoma
Teaching and training experiences
Essential criteria
- • Experience of supervising resident medical staff
- • Evidence of management and administration experience
Desirable criteria
- • Other teaching skills/experience
- • Management training
- • Success in obtaining funding for research
Personal attributes
Essential criteria
- • Good leadership skills
- • Ability to communicate effectively
- • Enthusiasm and ability to work under pressure
- • Good organisational and management skills
- • Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
- • Resident within 10 miles or 30minutes of the hospital
- • Commitment to training and continuing medical education (CME)
- • Caring attitude to patients
- • Clear recognition of boundaries in respect of sessional work outside the hospital
- • Supportive
- • Commitment to good teamwork and relationships
- • Flexibility to respond to changing service needs
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in team working outside of work
- • IT skills
- • Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
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
- Ms Sreekumari Pushpoth
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01642 854069
- Additional information
Mr David Lunt Glaucoma Clinical Lead and Consultant Ophthalmologist [email protected]
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