Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon interest in Cataract & Anterior Segment

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

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Job summary

This is a new substantive post to replace a highly successful locum consultant role, which has been split between oversight of our pioneering bespoke high volume cataract suite, and the establishment of the region's first keratoconus treatment service.

BHT took a proactive approach to managing cataract patients in 2017, which has resulted in a standalone high volume cataract hub, treating 4000 patients a year, while maintaining a complex cataract service within the main eye department. BHT provides trainees with more cataract surgery opportunities than any other Trust.

As the role, and our department, continues to develop we aim to refine the provision of urgent eye care so that patients are streamed to sub-speciality experts at their first appointment.

The successful applicant will therefore be expected to deliver acute anterior segment clinics for our busy eye casualty service, will require experience in operational and strategic responsibility for a high-volume cataract suite, expertise in cataract surgery and training within such an environment with the necessary skills to manage complex cases and post-cataract refractive issues, and will be able to demonstrate experience in the delivery of a diagnostic and therapeutic keratoconus service.

Planned AAC Interview Date is Friday 14 June 2024

** Update - The Job Description has been approved by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists **

Main duties of the job

The key duties and responsibilities are: -

  • Management and development of the Specialist Cataract service, including commissioning and work with ICB, delivery and oversight of cataract clinics and surgery, and management of complex cataract cases
  • Delivery of acute anterior segment clinics as part of our Urgent care service
  • Delivery and oversight of the keratoconus service.
  • Clinical and other administration as required by agreement
  • General Ophthalmology responsibilities, including on call and care of inpatients
  • Teaching and training of Oxford deanery trainees, junior staff and undergraduates
  • Active involvement in Research and Clinical Governance

About us

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

  • As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
  • We offer flexible and agile workingopportunities,alongside your NHS benefits ofgenerous annual leave entitlement, pension andaccess toNHS discount schemes.
  • We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

  • We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
  • As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
  • Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

  • Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
  • Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
  • Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Date posted

20 May 2024

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£99,532 to £131,964 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

434-MSCC-293

Job locations

Stoke Mandeville Hospital

Buckinghamshire

HP21 8AL


Job description

Job responsibilities

The Ophthalmic unit serves a population of around 1 million people mainly from Aylesbury Vale in Buckinghamshire, but including parts of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.

The unit is run from a purpose-built new building (the Mandeville Wing) which opened 12 years ago as well as sites at Wycombe and Amersham hospitals nearby. They are fully equipped with modern out-patient facilities including clinic rooms, Orthoptic and Optometric departments, visual fields, Argon, YAG and SLT lasers, Electro-diagnostics and a fully linked imaging suite which has anterior and posterior segment imaging including OCT, Fundus photography, Fluorescein and ICG angiography and auto-fluorescence imaging as well as Wavefront analysis.

A 24-hour emergency clinic sees around 15,000 patients per year. The main hospital sites house MRI, CT and Ultra-sound imaging.

The Consultant body covers most sub-specialty areas with little need for onward referral except in complex tertiary cases for which links with Oxford and Moorfields are readily available.

The unit sees around 50,000 out-patients per year at Stoke Mandeville site and a further 24,000 at Wycombe and Amersham sites.

There are around 6,400 operations per year in three dedicated eye theatres, and a separate cataract theatre unit for appropriate high-volume surgery. Most surgery is day-cases, but some inpatient cases are performed.

The delivery unit has a General Manager, Service Manager and an accountant and is part of the Surgical Directorate.

Regular weekly teaching is held in conjunction with the Oxford Eye Hospital and research and audit projects are actively encouraged.

Microsurgical skills teaching and training is a strength of the unit and as well as having a well-established skills centre which has just been updated and the unit has an EyeSi surgical simulator.

The trust supports remote working where possible and appropriate e.g. for meetings, SPA and DCC admin activities.

Time off in lieu will be supported, e.g. such as with unforeseen emergency work overnight.

If mentoring is required, this is something that the department will actively support and facilitate.

Eight medical secretaries and one support secretary work within the department and support the consultants. Remote working is well-supported by the Trust.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Ophthalmic unit serves a population of around 1 million people mainly from Aylesbury Vale in Buckinghamshire, but including parts of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.

The unit is run from a purpose-built new building (the Mandeville Wing) which opened 12 years ago as well as sites at Wycombe and Amersham hospitals nearby. They are fully equipped with modern out-patient facilities including clinic rooms, Orthoptic and Optometric departments, visual fields, Argon, YAG and SLT lasers, Electro-diagnostics and a fully linked imaging suite which has anterior and posterior segment imaging including OCT, Fundus photography, Fluorescein and ICG angiography and auto-fluorescence imaging as well as Wavefront analysis.

A 24-hour emergency clinic sees around 15,000 patients per year. The main hospital sites house MRI, CT and Ultra-sound imaging.

The Consultant body covers most sub-specialty areas with little need for onward referral except in complex tertiary cases for which links with Oxford and Moorfields are readily available.

The unit sees around 50,000 out-patients per year at Stoke Mandeville site and a further 24,000 at Wycombe and Amersham sites.

There are around 6,400 operations per year in three dedicated eye theatres, and a separate cataract theatre unit for appropriate high-volume surgery. Most surgery is day-cases, but some inpatient cases are performed.

The delivery unit has a General Manager, Service Manager and an accountant and is part of the Surgical Directorate.

Regular weekly teaching is held in conjunction with the Oxford Eye Hospital and research and audit projects are actively encouraged.

Microsurgical skills teaching and training is a strength of the unit and as well as having a well-established skills centre which has just been updated and the unit has an EyeSi surgical simulator.

The trust supports remote working where possible and appropriate e.g. for meetings, SPA and DCC admin activities.

Time off in lieu will be supported, e.g. such as with unforeseen emergency work overnight.

If mentoring is required, this is something that the department will actively support and facilitate.

Eight medical secretaries and one support secretary work within the department and support the consultants. Remote working is well-supported by the Trust.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • MB, BS or equivalent GMC registrable qualifications
  • General training in Ophthalmology to CCT / CESR level
  • Registration on GMC Specialist Register in Ophthalmology OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview (CESR must already be held if that is the route by which specialist registration was achieved)
  • Recognised Higher degree
  • Recognised Fellowship (level 4 training) in anterior segment & cataract surgery

Experience

Essential

  • Appropriate training in Ophthalmology with additional training in Cataract & anterior segment to specialist level
  • Experience of management and delivery of high-volume low-complexity cataract surgery
  • Evidence of executive decision-making at consultant level

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Essential

  • Excellent leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of consultant
  • Evidence for surgical and clinical skills in Ophthalmic surgery to undertake a consultant role
  • Good personal and interpersonal skills
  • Good spoken and written English
  • Communication skills should be highly developed
  • Experience of teaching doctors-in-training and undergraduates
  • Experience of clinical audit

Other Requirements

Essential

  • GMC Registration
  • Able to travel to and between sites

Trust 'CARE' Values

Essential

  • Collaborate - Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
  • Aspire - Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
  • Respect - Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued
  • Enable - Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • MB, BS or equivalent GMC registrable qualifications
  • General training in Ophthalmology to CCT / CESR level
  • Registration on GMC Specialist Register in Ophthalmology OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview (CESR must already be held if that is the route by which specialist registration was achieved)
  • Recognised Higher degree
  • Recognised Fellowship (level 4 training) in anterior segment & cataract surgery

Experience

Essential

  • Appropriate training in Ophthalmology with additional training in Cataract & anterior segment to specialist level
  • Experience of management and delivery of high-volume low-complexity cataract surgery
  • Evidence of executive decision-making at consultant level

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Essential

  • Excellent leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of consultant
  • Evidence for surgical and clinical skills in Ophthalmic surgery to undertake a consultant role
  • Good personal and interpersonal skills
  • Good spoken and written English
  • Communication skills should be highly developed
  • Experience of teaching doctors-in-training and undergraduates
  • Experience of clinical audit

Other Requirements

Essential

  • GMC Registration
  • Able to travel to and between sites

Trust 'CARE' Values

Essential

  • Collaborate - Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
  • Aspire - Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
  • Respect - Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued
  • Enable - Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Stoke Mandeville Hospital

Buckinghamshire

HP21 8AL


Employer's website

https://careers.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Stoke Mandeville Hospital

Buckinghamshire

HP21 8AL


Employer's website

https://careers.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant Ophthalmologist & SDU Lead

Mr Mike Adams

mike.adams1@nhs.net

01296316495

Date posted

20 May 2024

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£99,532 to £131,964 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

434-MSCC-293

Job locations

Stoke Mandeville Hospital

Buckinghamshire

HP21 8AL


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