An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic qualified or newly qualified Orthoptist to join our team in the Eye Treatment Centre at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, where we are offering a preceptorship programme. Are you enthused by developing your experience and helping shape the expansion of our team? Our philosophy is to provide services for patients where they are most needed.
You will become a valued part of our growing Orthoptic and Ophthalmology service, holding your own clinics with the opportunity to develop and carry out a wide range of extended roles such as Glaucoma, Medical Retina, Stroke, Paediatric Refraction, Low Vision Aids, ROP screening and Special School Orthoptic clinics to support our ever-growing patient group.
We are a large multidisciplinary team that works very closely together, which includes doctors, Optometrists, Ophthalmic Nurses, Nurse, Ophthalmic Assistants and Care Assistants as well as those from other specialties such as Neurology, Endocrinology and Elderly Care.
The department fully supports Investors for People and continuing professional development. You will be working with a diverse and dynamic team with strong peer support and access to educational opportunities to further your career.
Key Responsibilities:
To be responsible for the Orthoptic assessment, diagnosis and management of patients referred to the Orthoptic Department from various departments, including paediatrics, accident and emergency, maxillo-facial department, endocrinology and neurology under supervision. To formulate relevant discharge plans and onward referral. To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner for the evaluation of visual acuity in referrals from the specialist services. To be responsible for planning, implementing and monitoring individual Orthoptic treatment plans / care pathways for patients of all ages using advanced clinical reasoning and evidence based practice under minimal supervision. To undertake extended roles such as Stable glaucoma clinics, Glaucoma Assessment clinics, IOP and Compliance clinics and Pre-Op cataract assessment including biometry.
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Orthoptic Clinical Duties:
To carry out Orthoptic assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients referred from outside agencies and to manage, using individual treatment plans, the associated amblyopia (non-pathological vision loss) and other visual symptoms. To formulate individualised management and treatment programmes using clinical reasoning and a wide range of treatment skills. To assess, diagnose and treat patients with special needs. To liaise with the Team Leader Orthoptics regarding problems arising from any Orthoptic treatment. To perform secondary vision screening. To undertake pre and post-operative measurements of motility defects. To identify surgical risks (pre, peri and post surgery) and to discuss these with the patients (parents / carers) and surgeon. To assess patients’ post-operative outcome and modify treatment accordingly. To support the Ophthalmologist in outreach clinics. To work as a part of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Ophthalmologists, Optometrists, Orthoptists, Nurses, and Clerks etc.
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You will become a valued part of our growing Orthoptic and Ophthalmology service, holding your own clinics with the opportunity to develop and carry out a wide range of extended roles such as Glaucoma, Medical Retina, Stroke, Paediatric Refraction, Low Vision Aids, ROP screening and Special School Orthoptic clinics to support our ever-growing patient group.
We are a large multidisciplinary team that works very closely together, which includes doctors, Optometrists, Ophthalmic Nurses, Nurse, Ophthalmic Assistants and Care Assistants as well as those from other specialties such as Neurology, Endocrinology and Elderly Care.
The department fully supports Investors for People and continuing professional development. You will be working with a diverse and dynamic team with strong peer support and access to educational opportunities to further your career.
Key Responsibilities:
To be responsible for the Orthoptic assessment, diagnosis and management of patients referred to the Orthoptic Department from various departments, including paediatrics, accident and emergency, maxillo-facial department, endocrinology and neurology under supervision. To formulate relevant discharge plans and onward referral. To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner for the evaluation of visual acuity in referrals from the specialist services. To be responsible for planning, implementing and monitoring individual Orthoptic treatment plans / care pathways for patients of all ages using advanced clinical reasoning and evidence based practice under minimal supervision. To undertake extended roles such as Stable glaucoma clinics, Glaucoma Assessment clinics, IOP and Compliance clinics and Pre-Op cataract assessment including biometry.
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Orthoptic Clinical Duties:
To carry out Orthoptic assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients referred from outside agencies and to manage, using individual treatment plans, the associated amblyopia (non-pathological vision loss) and other visual symptoms. To formulate individualised management and treatment programmes using clinical reasoning and a wide range of treatment skills. To assess, diagnose and treat patients with special needs. To liaise with the Team Leader Orthoptics regarding problems arising from any Orthoptic treatment. To perform secondary vision screening. To undertake pre and post-operative measurements of motility defects. To identify surgical risks (pre, peri and post surgery) and to discuss these with the patients (parents / carers) and surgeon. To assess patients’ post-operative outcome and modify treatment accordingly. To support the Ophthalmologist in outreach clinics. To work as a part of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Ophthalmologists, Optometrists, Orthoptists, Nurses, and Clerks etc.
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