Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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Job overview

This is a full time clinical post based at The Royal Eye Unit, Kingston Hospital, to provide elective and emergency care for ophthalmology patients as part of a multidisciplinary team.  

This is an ideal post for those aiming to obtain and develop basic sub specialty training in glaucoma whilst broadening their experience of managing complex and secondary glaucoma.  

There are two regular weekly theatre sessions. The post holder will receive training in cataract surgery and glaucoma surgery including trabeculectomy with antimetabolites, cyclodiode laser, 
minimally invasive glaucoma surgery and, based on experience, glaucoma drainage implant surgery and trabeculectomy revision.  

A laser clinic to enable the post holder to gain experience in iridotomy and selective laser trabeculoplasty.  

The post holder will have a weekly Eye Casualty session.  

All glaucoma clinics are Consultant-led and based at Kingston Hospital.  

There is no on-call commitment, evenings or weekend sessions.

Main duties of the job

Duties of the Post 

1.Promotion of and participation in teaching within the department 

2.Flexible cover of the clinical commitments of the department 

3.Active involvement in research and to continue to maintain and update own professional knowledge 

4.To fulfill all of the general conditions applying to employees of the Trust 

All clinical staff are expected to attend the weekly departmental teaching session on Monday lunch time between 12.30-14.00 hours and monthly Clinical Governance half-day meetings.

The candidate will be expected to be flexible and amenable to changes in timetable in line with service developments and needs. 

Equally the Trust will try and accommodate the candidates training and developmental needs and interests as much as possible when constructing the timetable. 

Ultimately the agreed job plan will be based on the strengths of the successful candidate and needs of the service.

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