Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility.  This will include any patients cared for by you personally.

To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care.

To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.

To participate fully in the clinical governance activities of the specialty. To attend clinical governance half-days as in the job plan.

To participate actively in departmental audits which may be included in the work you undertake.

To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Council’s published guide “Good Medical Practice” including the Duties of a Doctor.

To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.  To be an active member of the risk management processes of the clinical team and care group. 

To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you have been involved with, assisting the Trust’s corporate responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame.

To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.

You are required to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work. You must adhere to Trust IRMER Regulations.

The post holder will be required to also perform duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances at the request of the Clinical Director or General Manager for Ophthalmology.