Pre registration optometrist

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

This is a fixed term 13 month contract as a Pre Registration Optometrist at Oxford Eye Hospital. The role will involve working, under supervision from experienced supervisors, in all core areas of Optometry ( refraction (paediatric cycloplegic and adult cases), specialist contact lens fitting, low vision assessment, optical dispensing, corneal topography, visual fields (Humphrey, Goldmann, Octopus) and colour vision assessment. The Optometry service has an in house spectacle dispensing service and you will be timetabled for sessions in Dispening alongside experienced Dispensing Opticians.

You will have observation sessions timetabled around the range of ophthalmology service clinics so that your training is consolidated. There is opportunity to attend the weekly regional ophthalmology teaching held within the Oxford Eye Hospital. As part of your year, a placement in private practice is organised for you to ensure that you achieve the caseload required to satisfy the sign off requirements of your training, and to give opportunity to examine cases within community optometry. We nuture our pre reg Optometrists allowing them to not only complete the scheme for registration but to become well rounded clinicians. Should an an opportunity for a permanent position become available we would encourage them to apply if appropriate.

Main duties of the job

Our fixed term pre-registration optometrist post at Oxford Eye Hospital will run 4th August 2025 until 31st August 2026. We are looking for a candidate on track for a good BSc (Hons) degree in Optometry (2(i) or above). You will have a bright mind, caring attitude and a strong desire to pursue a long term career in hospital optometry.

Oxford Eye Hospital is a busy teaching hospital, with Consultant Ophthalmologists across sub-specialities -vitro-retina, glaucoma, paediatric, neuro-ophthalmology, cornea, medical retina, oncology, genetics and oculo-plastics. The Department of Optometry as a team includes over 20 Optometrists, some part time, one pre -registration optometrist, Dispensing Opticians and a team of Optometric Technicians. Our optometrists work across many of these specialties. Our core clinical activities include refraction (paediatric cycloplegic and adult cases), specialist contact lens fitting, low vision assessment, optical dispensing, corneal topography, visual fields (Humphrey, Goldmann, Octopus) and colour vision assessment.

About us

Oxford Eye Hospital is a busy teaching hospital, with Consultant Ophthalmologists across many sub-specialities. The Department of Optometry as a team includes over 20 Optometrists, some part time, one pre -registration optometrist, Dispensing Opticians and a team of ECLOs. Our optometrists work across many of these specialties as well as delivering Core Optometry.

Oxford is a beautiful historic city with excellent cultural, educational and recreational facilities. There is on site accommodation which is affordable and convenient for the duration of the pre reg year.

Date posted

09 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£25,147 to £27,596 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

13 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

321-NOTSS-6281419-B4

Job locations

Optometry Department, Oxford eye hospital, West Wing of John Radcliffe Hospital

Headley way

Oxford

OX3 9DU

Job description

Job responsibilities

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To undertake core optometry services under clinical supervision. The levelof supervision will reduce during the term of the contract as the postholdergains experience and is expected to be guided by professional guidelinesand best practice. Core services include:a. Routine refraction (including diagnostic and paediatric).b. Routine, and ultimately complex, low vision clinics.c. Complex medical contact lens fitting and aftercare management.d. Imaging techniques such as corneal topography and optic nerve headimaging.e. Investigative techniques such as slit-lamp biomicroscopy and indirectophthalmoscopy to examine optometry patients including those notunder ophthalmology review, to monitor/screen for ocular diseasessuch as age-related macula degeneration, glaucoma and diabeticretinopathy.To plan and implement individual patient care pathways and referpatients back to the care of the ophthalmologist when changes/newpathology is detected/suspected

f. Colour vision assessment.g. Visual fields assessment and other psychophysical assessments ofvisual function.h. Routine and complex spectacle dispensing service.i. Liaison with medical staff and professionals from other disciplines(e.g. Social and Health Care and charities such as RNIB andOxfordshire Association for the Blind) in co-ordinating patient care

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.