Bank Senior Orthoptist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Bank Senior Orthoptist wishing to cover bank shifts throughout the week at Sherwood Forest Hospitals. This flexible position allows for shifts that are usually agreed 6 weeks ahead for planned cover as well as short notice availability to cover staff sickness.

As a Senior Orthoptist, you will play a pivotal role in providing high-quality care and support to our patients. The primary location for this role is at King's Mill Hospital where you will work in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment that values your expertise and skills.

This role may also involve travel to Newark Hospital and Ashfield Health Village, offering you the opportunity to expand your scope of practice and contribute to patient care in various settings. You will be responsible for assessing and treating a range of orthoptic conditions, managing complex cases and providing a high standard of patient care across different departments.

This position provides a unique opportunity to gain experience across multiple settings, enhancing your clinical skills and expertise. You will be supported by a collaborative and friendly team, ensuring that your professional development is a key focus while delivering exceptional care.

Main duties of the jobTo understand the role in more detail, please see attached job description and person specification documents

About us We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other.

We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Details Date posted
08 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

BandBand 6

Salary
39,959 to 48,117 a year

as per Trust rates

Contract Bank Working  pattern

Full-time,

Flexible working

Reference number
214-CEN-8295196

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital Mansfield Road Sutton-in-AshfieldNG
17 4JL
United Kingdom Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please see attached job description and person specification documents
Job description
Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please see attached job description and person specification documents

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential Knowledge of Core Orthoptics To demonstrate and interest in ophthalmology and neurology

Good Organisational and planning skills and well developed interpersonal and communication skills

Desirable IT skills including knowledge of hospital systems

Qualifications

Essential To Possess Batchelor of Science in Orthoptics BSc(Orth), Bmed Sci (Orth) and/or Diploma from the British Orthoptic Council (DBO) or equivalent qualification

To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council Desirable Has  attended the BIOS Clinical tutors Course of equivalent teaching certificate

Further Training

Essential Willing to keep up to date with current literature and keep evidence of CPD activities

Desirable

Low Vision Therapy course

Biometry training

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