Job summary
- Main area
- Ophthalmology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 208-7565485-25
- Employer
- Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Scunthorpe General Hospital
- Town
- Scunthorpe
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Ophthalmologist with interest in Medical Retina (SGH)
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Job overview
The successful candidate will assume a direct clinical role within the department, sharing all facilities equally with the existing consultants. This is a full-time fixed term post (11 PAs) General Ophthalmologist with special interest in Medical retinal diseases/Uveitis. The appointee will be joining 32 Consultant Ophthalmologist posts already established. The successful candidate will work 11 PA’s a week, which will include an 8 DCC and 2 SPA split (Flexible working may be considered) with additional activities to be discussed. It is expected that the successful applicant will play an active role in the consultant on call rota.
Main duties of the job
The Consultant will, in conjunction with colleagues:
i. Provide theatre cover as below.
ii. Provide an Ophthalmic service in accordance with the agreed timetable and subsequent job plan.
iii. Provide trustwide 1 in 10 on call cover
iv. Supervise trainee staff within the Trust.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details regarding this role, please see attached full job description and person specification.
Person specification
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- FRCOphth or equivalent
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training
Management and Administration Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage and lead medical/surgical teams
- Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
- Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
Desirable criteria
- Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery
Teaching, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- Evidence of participation in audit
- Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- Original peer-reviewed research publications
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
- Mr Satish Kotta
- Job title
- Consultant Ophthalmologist & Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 875875
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