Job overview

An exciting vacancy has become available to join our team on a permanent basis part-time, 2 days per week starting from May 2025.

Your role is varied and interested and will provide you with development and leadership opportunities.  In addition to core orthoptic clinics you will be working within extended roles in paediatrics ophthalmology including JIA clinics and stroke servivces.  You will take a role in jointly leading our community paediatric services and work closely with the team and our paediatric ophthalmologist and AHP colleagues. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Orthoptist to join our teams.
The post-holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary teams that provide comprehensive and quality ophthalmology services for the Trust.  
You will be based in the Eye Treatment Centre at Whipps Cross University Hospital with sessions within the community and special schools and stroke service at Newham hospital.  The Eye Treatment Centre is a dedicated unit covering all ophthalmology specialties including vitreo-retinal, medical retina, glaucoma, cornea, oculo-plastics, paediatrics, neuro-ophthalmology and we also have a busy eye emergency service.  

Main duties of the job

 To provide an orthoptic service as an autonomous practitioner: both preventative and curative as directed by the standards of the British and Irish Orthoptic Society (BIOS)

 To use advanced clinical expertise, reasoning and experience to assess, diagnose and manage patients referred to the Orthoptic service as part of a multi-disciplinary team

 To actively teach and educate other healthcare professionals including under-graduate orthoptic students, pre-registration Optometrists, Health Visitors, School Nurses, General Practitioners (GP), junior doctors and medical students

To be the Lead Orthoptist for the Community Orthoptic Services and within this role: oversee the overall organisation and management of the service and support the team with operational management

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.