Principal Optometrist - Moorfields South Glaucoma Clinic Lead

Principal Optometrist - Moorfields South Glaucoma Clinic Lead

The closing date is 10 March 2026

We are recruiting to the role of Moorfields South Glaucoma Clinic Lead. The post-holder will take on their own personal clinical workload consisting of a mixture of virtual review work and face-to-face clinics at our Moorfields Eye Clinic at the Nelson Health Centre in Wimbledon. The post also includes one session of SPA time to support the management of optometry-delivered glaucoma services within the South division of Moorfields, and so provides an exciting opportunity for any experienced glaucoma optometrist to step into an operational role and progress their career.

The post-holder will, wherever possible autonomously deliver a wide range of advanced complex and non-routine work with responsibility for patient examination and complex clinical decision making.

Summary of duties:

• To be responsible for and personally deliver a wide range of highly specialised optometric care in an advanced extended role across the 3 elements of the Glaucoma service delivery model:
  Consultant-Led Clinic, Optometrist - Led Clinic, Remote review (Virtual) Clinic
• To be the Clinical Lead Optometrist in the designated clinic and to have overall responsibility for the clinical care of the patients seen in the clinic.
• To participate in clinical audit, teaching, research as required
• To provide teaching and supervision to registered Optometrists / other clinical staff if required.
• The postholder will also undertake the role of Moorfields South Glaucoma Clinic Lead which will involve taking on responsibility for the organisation of optometry staff within the glaucoma service in Moorfields South. There will be an expectation to take on line management responsibility as well as support the divisional lead optometrist in managing the glaucoma optometry-led (both face-to-face and virtual) clinics in Moorfields South in matters related to staffing and governance.

What's in it for You?

At Moorfields, we invest in you--your growth, your wellbeing, your future. You'll join a flexible, supportive organisation offering:

• Competitive salary (including high-cost area supplement)
• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
• 24/7 independent counselling support
• Career-long learning and development opportunities
• Excellent transport connection
• Access to NHS and Blue Light discount schemes
• Free Pilates classes
• Full support and training to develop your skills

And so much more! To see the full range of benefits we offer please view our Moorfields benefits leaflet.

1. Clinical
To deliver highly specialist clinical patient care requiring extensive knowledge, experience and expertise in management that includes a high proportion of tertiary referrals. This activity requires regular use of a wide range of advanced clinical techniques requiring dexterity, precision and intense concentration; and the judgement, analysis and interpretation of the complex clinical findings with a range of management options. Patient examinations will be comprehensive and commensurate with clinical experience beyond Masters Level (i.e. College of Optometrists Diploma in Glaucoma, College of Optometrists Diploma in Independent Prescribing).

Skills and knowledge are commensurate with those of sub-specialty medical ophthalmology staff. To make independent, patient-centred clinical decisions on management in the presence of uncertainty (for example where patients are unable to cooperate fully in clinical assessments or the evidence for management options is unclear). To be autonomously responsible for medical treatment (including prescribing) and management of patients. To recognise when patient clinical findings require Consultant Ophthalmic opinions (eg regarding surgery).

To refer patients with ocular comorbidity to other ophthalmological services appropriately. As Clinic Lead in Optometrist-Led Glaucoma clinics, to supervise all patient examinations carried out by the support/resident/placement/new to clinic Optometrist unless/until such time that the support/resident/new to clinic Optometrist has attained the appropriate College of Optometrists certificate or completed their competency sign off. To review all prescribing decisions unless the prescribing optometrist has the correct qualifications together with The College of Optometrists Diploma in Independent Prescribing and their scope of practice /area of prescribing is in that service.

To organise the session by reviewing all clinical records at the start of an Optometrist-led clinic to determine necessary additional clinical tests (eg: visual fields, imaging, auto-refraction) utilising the different staff groups efficiently (admin, technical, optometric). To provide expert opinion to optometric and non-optometric colleagues on the management of complex cases within the designated Clinics and the Optometry Department. To refer patients for appropriate appliances (contact lenses, spectacles, low vision aids)…