Job overview

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join the largest eye unit in the SE of England in order to bolster individual skills in Medical Retina and Uveitis. The post offers a wide range of clinical exposure including operating lists and subspecialty clinics. Postgraduate teaching is on Friday afternoons and is Consultant-led.

Applications are invited for the above full time post are to commence as soon as possible, for a permanent post. Applicants should have demonstrable interest and experience in Medical Retina and Uveitis.

Applicants are required to be registered with the General Medical Council and hold a Licence to Practice. CVs will not be accepted in application for this post, it is essential that applicants complete the online application form in full.

Main duties of the job

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 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 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.

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 .

Working for our organisation

The Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is responsible for the provision of ophthalmology services for the people of Mid and West Kent, covering approximately a 1 million population. The large population we serve entails a wide and interesting selection of cases. General and sub speciality ophthalmology services are provided at the Eye, Ear, and Mouth Unit (EEMU), a modern, purpose- built facility attached to Maidstone Hospital, with outpatient facilities provided at Tunbridge Wells, Medway Maritime and Sevenoaks Hospitals in a “hub and spoke” model. 

EEMU has a busy rapid access department (Eye Casualty) with optometric and orthoptics services as well as day case/inpatient facilities, with staffing provided by specialist nurses in clinics, Eye Day Care, and the dedicated ophthalmic operating theatres. The departments are equipped to an extremely high standard with digital anterior segment and fundus imaging systems, spectral domain OCTs, HRT-3, corneal topography machines and a new Argon laser and SLT/ YAG laser systems. An Octopus kinetic visual fields machine is also in place at Maidstone.