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.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

As part of the ongoing expansion and modernisation of the Royal Eye Unit we are growing our team to ensure we continue to deliver a high standard of care to our local community.  We are recruiting enthusiastic and dynamic people to join our supportive and friendly team during this exciting time and as such, we are looking to appoint an innovative and high performing Specialty Doctor with independent out-patient clinic practice specialising in Medical Retina and  Emergency sub-specialties.

The department is a teaching environment supporting the educational and clinical development of junior trainees and non-medical teams (including Nurse Practitioners, ACPs, Orthoptists and Optometrists) to support their development within extended roles.

This is an excellent opportunity to work within the Royal Eye Unit where our multidisciplinary team see over 70,000 patients per year. We offer a full range of hospital eye care services including specialist outpatient clinics, admitted care and an acute referral service for eye emergencies.

This is a substantive role based in the Royal Eye Unit at Kingston Hospital. The post is full time, 10 PAs per week.  There is no on-call element and the post holder will be actively involved in supporting the Acute Referral Clinic (ARC).

Main duties of the job

The post holder is expected to:

• Provide clinical advice and where appropriate treatment.

• Help develop the service in accordance with Trust policy.

• Support the training and supervise trainees as appropriate

• Demonstrate professional excellence and efficient delivery of care in accordance with clinical case load associated with the post.

Working for our organisation

The service-line has regular educational meetings and actively supports opportunities for personal development of appointed staff.

Candidates must hold full registration and license to practice with the GMC.

Applications from those unable, for personal reasons, to work on a whole time basis or a job share basis will be considered.