Consultant Ophthalmologist interest in Cornea

Consultant Ophthalmologist interest in Cornea

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post; therefore, please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.

Job overview

This is an opportunity to join a dynamic, progressive team with a multidisciplinary approach to cornea and emergency eyecare management, including outpatient clinics, optometry and nurse practitioner clinics, and community and hospital-based working.

We provide a comprehensive service within secondary care, serving a population of 670,000. A range of advanced cornea surgical procedures are offered, including DMEK, DALK, PKP, corneal cross-linking, special lens insertions like Toric, Artisan, Scleral fixated, piggyback lenses, nurse-led keratoconus service, specialist contact lens fitting, etc.

The successful candidate will provide medical and surgical management within cornea and will work in partnership with an enthusiastic Ophthalmology department and a wider multidisciplinary team to deliver the emergency eye care aspect of the post. Our existing consultants have sub-specialty interests in medical retina, uveitis, glaucoma, anterior segment, oculoplastics, paediatric ophthalmology, and strabismus. The department also benefits from an ECLO and supportive senior management.

Main duties of the job

• To provide complex cornea outpatient clinics along with specialist surgical management.
• To clinically support and train a multidisciplinary team including trainees, associate specialists, optometrists, and nurse practitioners.
• Provide leadership and innovation in service delivery.

Desired qualities of the appointee:

• A consultant with cornea and emergency eye care subspecialty interest.
• An individual passionate about improving the quality of ophthalmology services.
• Willingness to train junior and multidisciplinary colleagues.

Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements:

• To ensure the provision of a first-class clinical service.
• To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty.
• To sustain and develop teaching and research wherever appropriate.
• To undertake all work in accordance with the Health Board’s procedures and operating policies.
• To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Division’s and Health Board’s service plans.
• To maintain the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Medical Division, or the Health Board.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow, and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary, and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications, and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support, and have an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital, which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This position involves Regulated Activity with children and adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012), and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer:

• Enhanced check with barred list information, including an adults and children’s barred list check.

Applicants must hold full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC.

Candidates for Consultant posts must also be on the GMC Specialist Register (including via CESR/European Community Rights) or will have a CCT/CESR(CP) date within 6 months of interview.

Person specification

Qualifications

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Management

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Clinical Experience

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Teaching

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Other Requirements

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Research

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To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa , unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK . If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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