Specialist Orthoptist

Are you a Specialist Orthoptist, or ready to make that move?

Want to be part of a service which provides treatment in both an acute and community setting?

Keen to work within a team where you can share your skills and experience?

Then please read on.

We are looking for an experienced orthoptist to join our team, we will consider applications from recently graduated Orthoptists. This is an opportunity to work alongside staff in our community-based team of 15 Orthoptists, Orthoptic Support Workers and an Orthoptic Apprentice working on a varied and challenging caseload across the Community and Hospital sites.

• A degree in Orthoptics or equivalent
• HCPC registration
• Membership of BIOS
• Experience of all aspects of orthoptics in both acute or community is desirable
• Ability to resolve both clinical and non-clinical queries
• Communication skills to pass on your knowledge to the team
• A desire to go beyond expectations

• Opportunities for flexible working.
• We offer specialist clinical roles such as special needs assessment, stroke ward assessment, stroke outpatient clinics, Goldmann assessment, Vision Therapy and clinical teaching.
• Acute clinic with Ophthalmologist (adults and paediatrics patients)
• Great benefits and inhouse staff services
• Working with a Trust rated outstanding by the CQC

You will need to work in some of our clinics single-handed so the role is most suited to an experienced orthoptist. You must have a degree or diploma in orthoptics, be registered with the HCPC and be a member of the British and Irish Orthoptic Society.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding - and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

You will be based in the community at Liverpool Road Health Centre in Luton, or Kempston Health Centre, Bedford with a requirement to travel frequently to hospital and community clinics throughout Bedfordshire.

Our team covers community clinics across the county, including paediatric orthoptic and child development centre clinics.

We also provide orthoptic clinics at both Hospitals, the Luton and Dunstable Hospital and Moorfields at Bedford Hospital. At the Luton and Dunstable and Moorfields eye clinics our team provides orthoptic support for hospital paediatric and adult motility clinics with consultants in paediatric ophthalmology and strabismus.

The department participates in NIHR registered Moorfields research studies.

We also provide specialist in and out-patient Stroke services at the Luton and Dunstable hospital as part of the multidisciplinary stroke team.

Orthoptists wishing to become a clinical tutor or to study postgraduate orthoptic modules at Sheffield and Liverpool University including the medicine exemptions course will be supported. The orthoptic department is also committed to teaching undergraduate orthoptic students.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Angela Coleman, Aisha Raja and Selina Glaze

Job title:

Orthoptic Team Leader Email address: ccs.bedsandlu Telephone number:

If this sounds like the role for you and you would like to arrange an informal visit or find out more information please contact Aisha Raja, Selina Glaze or Angela Coleman on  or email ccs.bedsandlu