Job summary
- Main area
- Orthoptics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 262-A-25-7489562
- Employer
- North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cumberland Infirmary,
- Town
- Carlisle
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Optometrist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
We are seeking an autonomous practitioner to deliver highly skilled and specialised HES optometric services to NCIC.
Main duties of the job
To undertake full range of optometry services as required, providing expert treatment and advice.
To provide a range of extended specialist role services.
Working as an autonomous registered practitioner with significant experience in an ophthalmology extended role providing high quality, individualised clinical management for patients using advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to determine and initiate changes to treatment as necessary.
Act as a specialist clinical expert in direct contact care, able to make high level skills decisions, informed by advanced history taking, diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills.
To be responsible and accountable for own decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice.
Working for our organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time':
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
Disclosure and Barring Service:
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.
The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:
Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £5.90 = £27.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.
Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £5.90 = £55.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.
NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:
27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
Flexible working Scheme
NHS Discounts*
Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*
Excellent opportunities for development*
Competitive NHS Pension scheme
Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
*Subject to eligibility
Important Information
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Hons Optometry or equivalent
- GOC registration
- Professional post-graduate specialist qualification(s),at Masters level or above, relevant to sub-specialist practice (e.g. College of Optometrists Dip Glau; Dip CL)
- GOC Specialty Registration (Independent Prescribing). Non-medical prescribing, with evidence of updating knowledge appropriate to patient groups prescribing across a range of ophthalmology sub specialty areas
Desirable criteria
- Masters in Advanced Practice or Masters level award
- Postgraduate masters (or higher) level clinical research experience relevant to sub-specialist practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive experience working with HES including significant extended role work in sub speciality.
- • Experience of all core optometry sub-specialities (Low vision aid assessments, complex contact lens fitting, complex and paediatric refraction)
- • Experience in clinical supervision and teaching.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of performing ophthalmic treatments(e.g. Yag Laser or intravitreal injections)
- Previous leadership experience
- Evidence of published research and ongoing involvement in AHP research
- Experience in triaging of referrals
- Experience developing policy, protocol and competencies
- Use of hospital computer Systems
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of persuasive and strong leadership skills, resilience, determination and ability to manage conflict
- • Demonstrate the enhanced dexterity required to initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions
- • Demonstrate a critical understanding of own level of responsibility, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information
- • Able to manage differentiated and undifferentiated presentations and complex situations to make evidence based judgements
- • Critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research, evaluation and audit
- • Comprehensive IT skills – working knowledge of software packages such as Word, Excel and Outlook
- • Ability to independently assess and make clinical decisions
- • Advanced written communication skills for writing clinical case notes and report.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paula McBride
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775607049
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