An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our patient focussed experienced Optometry team .
This is a secondary care post that will suit those who have carried out a pre-registration post in a hospital or are keen to develop their clinical skills in a fully supportive environment. The post holder will work alongside experienced clinical colleagues in the delivery of core optometry services.
You will work within our multi- disciplinary team and provide core optometry services including adult and paediatric ( cycloplegic) refraction and fundoscopy , medical contact lenses and low vision services . Full training will be given.
It is anticipated that as part of your career progression you will want to work towards extended roles such as Glaucoma, medical retina, Eye Emergency, Visual Electrophysiology or Intravitreal injections. Funding for college higher qualifications/ACP qualifications is available so that you can develop skills towards a varied weekly timetable
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel
You will have access to senior clinicians to guide you and consolidate your skills in optometry. We are part of the regional teaching for ophthalmology with easy access to training alongside our ophthalmology colleagues.
Routine and complex refraction adult and Children.
Delivering Optometrist/Orthoptics led paediatric cycloplegic refraction clinics at Oxford Eye Hospital site and from other peripheral outreach clinics in the county.
Work within the multidisciplinary clinics alongside Ophthalmologists in delivery of non-cycloplegic and cycloplegic paediatric refractions.
Deliver low vision clinics -assessment of needs, loan of optical aids and signposting to support services.
Medical contact lens fitting and aftercare management of keratoconus, aphakia, graft and bandage lens fitting. Fitting of scleral lenses – full and mini scleral lens designs.
Monitoring of keratoconus
