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Job summary

Main area
Ophthamology
Grade
NHS Locum Consultant
Contract
12 months (Initially 12 month NHS Locum Fixed Term contract with view to offer substantive)
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
328-HNO-MED-7490224
Employer
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The James Cook University Hospital
Town
Middlesbrough
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 10 PA Contract
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/10/2025 23:59

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Locum Consultant Ophthalmologist - Cornea

NHS Locum 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 ophthalmology department is a cohesive unit which has steadily expanded over the last ten years covering all major sub speciality areas within ophthalmology. 

The successful candidate will be joining the corneal & external eye disease ophthalmology team.  The department has a busy corneal and external eye diseases service that is currently lead by a single corneal consultant.

The growth and expansion of the service has led to the recruitment of another corneal subspecialist to manage the workload.

 

Main duties of the job

The primary focus of the position is to deliver a comprehensive subspecialty medical and surgical corneal service for the catchment area of the hospital supporting the existing consultant in the service.

Applicants need to be familiar and practiced in the surgical management of modern corneal grafting techniques for emergency conditions and for those patients that require long term visual rehabilitation. 

The newly appointed consultant will be expected to provide necessary support and guidance to the eye casualty team with regards to the management of acute corneal and external eye disease disorders.

In addition, the appointed consultant will be expected to contribute to the provision of emergency ophthalmic care through participation in the general consultant on-call rota and to provide general ophthalmic care for conditions which do not need subspecialty input. 

Within the hospital and department there are established research facilities and there will be opportunities to contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate education. 

The post holder will join the on-call rota on a 1 in 16/18 rota (with prospective cover in DCC).

Working for our organisation

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 & Training

Essential criteria
  • • Full GMC registration
  • • FRCOphth or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • • Training in appraisal techniques
  • • 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

Clinical Experience and Effectiveness

Essential criteria
  • • Extensive experience in General Ophthalmology
  • • Subspecialist experience in Corneal surgery and management of external eye diseases
  • • Ability to manage corneal emergencies
  • • Understanding of quality improvement activities such as audit
  • • Recognised subspecialty fellowship or good evidence of subspecialty practice in a recognized medical institution
Desirable criteria
  • • Ability to undertake high volume cataract surgery with a complex case mix

Teaching & Training Experience

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 with colleagues, patients, relatives, GP’s, nurses and other agencies
  • • Enthusiasm and ability to work under pressure
  • • Good organisational and management skills
  • • Commitment to training and continuing medical education (CME)
  • • Caring attitude to patients
  • • Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
  • • Resident within 10 miles or 30minutes of the hospital
  • • Flexibility to respond to changing service needs
  • • Clear recognition of boundaries in respect of sessional work outside the hospital
Desirable criteria
  • • IT skills
  • • Experience in team working outside of work
  • • Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ms. Sreekumari Pushpoth,
Job title
Clinical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01642 854069
Additional information

Mr. Trushar Patel, clinical lead, Cornea [email protected]

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