Specialty Doctor

Role Overview

The appointed Specialty Doctor will work in hospital and community clinics within Herefordshire and see new and old patients, following protocols and patient referral and treatment pathways. Good patient and staff communication is essential. The appointed Specialty Doctor will be involved in the training and supervision of junior members of medical staff, nursing and technical. The appointed Specialty Doctor will be expected to have good working knowledge of general ophthalmic diagnoses that might be encountered in practice.

Evidence based and protocol based decision making is expected, under the supervision of the consultant or clinical lead. There will be on-call duties as part of the post. The post is non-resident. The appointed Specialty Doctor undertakes, exceptionally, to perform additional duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we want for our family and friends. More than 3,500 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential. Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman:
The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential. Our values
-Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence- are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time all the time.

The Speciality Doctor post in anterior segment is for a full time 10.0 PA career doctor. The post is for an initial 12 months in the first instance. This post is suitable for a person who wishes to undertake a range of duties in the Victoria Eye Unit and in our associated peripheral clinics, focusing on glaucoma, cornea and medical retinal disease.

The degree of responsibility given to the appointed doctor will be commensurate with his/her experience and managed by the clinical lead & consultant ophthalmologists in the Hospital Eye Service. The timetable will necessarily be flexible to fit with the needs of the service; an out-of-hours on-call commitment is also expected.