Medical Retina Fellow
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
We are looking for a Medical Retina fellow to join us for an initial one year fixed term appointment. This is a full time post with a minimum of 10 programmed activities. The post will be based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital Reading and the Prince Charles Eye Unit in Windsor. The appointee will be expected to become a full member of a progressive and forward looking department involved actively in Clinical Governance and Quality improvement projects. Continuing education, professional development and teaching are actively encouraged and research and audit opportunities will be available.
Main duties of the job
Medical retina clinics and cataract surgery will form part of the timetable and the Fellow will also be expected to contribute to General Ophthalmic, Casualty and Acute Primary care Services. They will be part of the team covering inpatients and on-call work.
The appointee would be required to undertake annual appraisal and contribute towards their professional development plan. The exact details of the job plan will be agreed on appointment and will depend upon the area of expertise of the successful applicant and requirements of the department.
About us
The department undertakes approximately 7000 day-case procedures pa and provides approximately 100,000 outpatient attendances and over 20,000 Eye Casualty attendances pa, serving a population of approximately 1 million.
At the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading the service is located in the Eye Block and includes the Eye Outpatient Department and the dedicated Eye Day Case Unit.
The Prince Charles Eye Unit in Windsor is on the site of the King Edward VII Hospital. There are two fully commissioned ophthalmic theatres within the unit undertaking day case admissions and minor operations.
Ophthalmic Accident and Emergency services are provided in both the Royal Berkshire Hospital and Prince Charles Eye Unit, adjacent to the clinics. The Orthoptic departments and departmental secretarial services are located close by.
The West Berkshire Community Hospital in Newbury provides dedicated eye outpatient clinic facilities and theatres.
The outpatient facilities at all sites include modern reception and waiting room areas and individual fully equipped consulting rooms. Up to date equipment includes OCT, HRT, photography, ultrasound, YAG and argon lasers (including SLT), Pentacam scanning and IOLMaster biometry.
The Royal Berkshire Hospital is a Digital Trust using Cerner Millennium EPR. The Ophthalmology department is paperlight, using Medisoft for all clinical records. Medisoft is closely integrated with EPR.
Date posted
23 May 2023
Pay scheme
Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade
Doctor - other
Salary
£51,017 to £58,398 a year per annum
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
193-MS1396PCG
Job locations
Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust
Craven Road
Reading
RG1 5AN
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust
Craven Road
Reading
RG1 5AN
Employer's website
https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
For questions about the job, contact:
Consultant Ophthalmologist, Clinical Lead
Molham Entabi
Molham.Entabi@Royalberkshire.nhs.uk
01183225111
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