Job summary
- Main area
- Medical
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term - 12 months)
- Hours
- 40 hours per week (Full Time 40 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 273-DC-1399
- Employer
- Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £47,436.14 plus £10,100 recruitment premium per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Clinical Research Fellow
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
YOU MAKE US MORE
Join Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
At Moorfields, people’s sight matters—and so do the people who make it possible.
For over 200 years, Moorfields has been at the forefront of ophthalmic care, research, and education. With more than 2,300 dedicated team members and over 700,000 patients seen annually across our City Road site and 22 networked sites, we are proud to be a global centre of excellence.
We're also a vibrant community where kindness, equity and excellence shape every aspect of our work. Whether it’s pioneering research through our partnership with UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre or training the next generation of global eye care leaders, we’re united by one mission—delivering world-class eye health, sustainably and at scale.
And we’re just getting started.
Construction is well underway on our groundbreaking new centre in Camden, a joint initiative between Moorfields Eye Hospital, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Charity This modern, flexible facility will bring together eye care, research, and education under one roof—enabling transformative innovation and collaboration like never before.
Could you be part of this future? Make us more.
Job overview
This medical retina clinical and research fellowship in Moorfields offers a unique experience for aspiring medical retina specialists to obtain the experience and knowledge in managing complex medical retina, genetics and uveitis cases essential for taking up a future consultant post. It also offers the opportunity to participate and be an investigator in exciting clinical trials including multi-centre and multi-national studies.
Main duties of the job
In this post as a medical retina clinical and research fellow in Moorfields Eye Hospital, you will spend half your time in the medical retina, uveitis and genetics clinics managing complex cases under the guidance and tutelage of senior consultants and the other half within the R&D department working within the clinical research facility as an investigator in numerous clinical trials.
The applicant should have completed their ophthalmology training locally and is seeking fellowship training in medical retina.
Ability to manage common medical retina pathology with experience in retinal laser treatment and intravitreal injection is required.
Applicants are required to be registered with the General Medical Council and hold a License to Practice.
Working for our organisation
At Moorfields, we provide more than just an excellent career and great colleagues to work with. We also offer:
Salary including High-Cost Area Supplement
Opportunity to join the NHS Pension Scheme
Free 24/7 independent counselling service
Learning and development opportunities
Easy and quick transport links
A range of attractive benefits and discounts
Access to Blue Light Card and other NHS Discount Schemes
Free Pilates classes
Full support and training to develop your skills
Flexible working friendly organization
And so much more! To see the full range of benefits we offer please see our Moorfields benefits document.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
May vary, as outlined above, but will also include:
- Set up and run clinical trials in medical retina that may include genetic eye diseases, thyroid eye disease, optic nerve diseases and paediatric eye conditions.
- Familiarise with retinal vascular disease imaging interpretation and how management correlates with imaging characteristics.
- Participate in writing manuscripts.
- Identifying and recruiting patients to trials, delivery of trials and set up and initiate clinical studies
- Some of the clinical sessions (at least once a week) may take place in the Moorfields Satellite sites based outside City Road.
- Cataract surgery is not part of the Medical Retina fellowship-training programme; however there may infrequently be opportunities to operate during the 12-month period.
- Attendance at regular MR Fellows Teaching Sessions (typically 6, 1-hour sessions per week, including Fluorescein Angiography Meeting, Electrophysiology Teaching, Uveitis Teaching and Clinical / Research Tutorials).
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Ophthalmology research experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in managing medical retina conditions
Desirable criteria
- Research Experience
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Ophthalmology level ST3
Skills
Desirable criteria
- Laser / AntiVEGF Injections
- Previous publication records
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
- Sobbha Sivaprasad
- Job title
- Consultant Ophthalmologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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