Specialist Orthoptist

Job summary

A post has become available for a Specialist Orthoptist at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. This is a dynamic department with a strong focus on quality which is constantly striving to improve services for our patients and ensure that their experience is as good as possible. We are looking for a forward thinking and innovative Orthoptist to become part of our team

Main duties of the job

The candidate will hold their own general Orthoptic caseload and will perform both new and follow-up assessments . The post holder will work alongside our urgent care clinic seeing urgent Orthoptic case and also to provide secondary screening clinics. There will be opportunity to work in multi-disciplinary clinics with both our paediatric Ophthalmologist and Optometrists. The successful candidate may be required to work at any of our Trust sites and will therefore require excellent organisational skills. Our service has an active Orthoptic stroke service and there may be opportunity to gain experience in this area.

About us

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager. You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks. We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham.

We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

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