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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for fixed term (Maternity cover) Locum Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in the Medical Retina Service at City Road and North Divisions (Ealing Site).

The post holder will be responsible for the ongoing care and management of Medical Retina patients within the trust. The successful candidate will be expected to provide training for junior doctors and to support the further development of the Allied Health Care Professionals within the service.

Candidates should have completed their Specialist Training in Ophthalmology, have their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent, or be within six months of their CCT date. Candidates are required to be in possession of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists or equivalent. The holder of this post is required to be fully registered with the General Medical Council and hold a license to practice. The successful candidate should have completed at least a year of subspecialty Medical Retina fellowship training.

Main duties of the job

Leadership and Team Working

To demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust and when participating in national or local initiatives.
To work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Partners as required.
To chair regular meetings for the specialties.
To resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.
Adhere to Trust/departmental guidelines on leave including reporting absence.

Working for our organisation

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of eye health services in the UK and a world-class centre of excellence for ophthalmic research and education. We have a reputation, developed over two centuries, for providing the highest quality of ophthalmic care. Our 2,300 staff are committed to sustaining and building on our pioneering legacy and ensuring we remain at the cutting edge of developments in ophthalmology.

Moorfields has contracts with more than 80 primary care trusts across the country, making us a truly national centre for eye care.

We are also a major postgraduate teaching centre and a national centre for ophthalmic research involving, with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, the largest ophthalmic research programme in the world. 

We continue to make headlines with our ground-breaking research and, along with our partners at the Institute, we have the highest measure of scientific productivity and impact in the world for our research activity.

We are one of only 11 sites nationally with National Institute for Health Research biomedical research centre status for translational research. This has recently been renewed for another 5 years with a substantial increase in research funding.

We have recently completed the development for our 10-year clinical strategy – Our Vision of Excellence, which continues to develop our networked model of service delivery for hospital and community based care.