Job summary
- Main area
- Ophthalmology
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (10 sessions per week)
- Job ref
- 213-MED-PRUH-7612597
- Employer
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Mary's Hospital
- Town
- Sidcup
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum excl. London Zone Allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Ophthalmologist with special interest in Glaucoma
Consultant
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.
Job overview
We wish to appoint a Consultant Ophthalmologist, specialising in Glaucoma. The post will be based at Kings’ Sidcup site, Queen Mary’s Hospital. However, the post has potential to support any of King's sites as appropriate. The individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff (medical and non-medical). The post holder will work within the multi–disciplinary teams providing and further developing elective and emergency care for ophthalmology patients within the general and subspecialty services, focusing on the provision and development of the glaucoma service to King’s patients.
Main duties of the job
The remit of this post is to provide specialist Consultant leadership, expertise and support to King’s glaucoma service. Post holder will develop and provide outpatient and surgical services for glaucoma patients from complex to routine. There will be commitment to the new community based glaucoma monitoring service with involvement in development, training, supervision and virtual case review. In addition, the post-holder may work with local clinical commissioning groups to devise appropriate patient care pathways and services in primary care. In addition, the post may involve performing high volume cataract surgery.
The post holder will contribute to the strategic development of the glaucoma service across all King’s sites in collaboration with the other King’s glaucoma specialists and there are regular meetings of a cross-site subspecialty glaucoma group to facilitate this.
The timetable advertised, whilst indicative, are a fair representation of the needs of the service at this current time; however, reasonable adjustments will be considered. If there any aspects of the advertised job plan / timetable that you wish to discuss, please feel free to contact Danielle Moore, ([email protected]) or Eoin O’Sullivan (e.o’[email protected])
Working for our organisation
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum – and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.
Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.
We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.
We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recongised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.
Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards:
1. Brilliant People
2. Outstanding care
3. Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education
4. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.
At King’s, we are proud to serve a diverse range of communities, and our staff reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, with many people also travelling from all the world to start and develop their careers with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Together with the other Ophthalmologists, to provide a service for Ophthalmology patients across all sites. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the department.
· Shared responsibility with the other Consultants for providing 24 hour, 7 day a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness.
· Provide clinical supervision of junior staff (medical and non-medical) as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
· Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.
· Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Divisional management team.
· Contribute to departmental research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework.
· Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, clinical governance programs and learning from Deaths.
· Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the department’s/ Division’s Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies.
· Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).
· Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post-qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.
· Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues.
· Undertake Divisional management duties as agreed with the Divisional/departmental Manager/Clinical Director.
· Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene.
· Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety.
You must be fully registered with the GMC and hold a Licence to Practice and be on the Specialist Register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent to be eligible for interview.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable adults and/or children (0-18 years), therefore this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registerable medical qualification
- FRCOphth / MRCOphth or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD)
Registration
Essential criteria
- Full Registration with GMC
- Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Wide experience in all aspects of Ophthalmology, culminating in award of Certificate of Completion of Training by GMC, or award of Certificate of Eligibility for Specialty Registration (CESR) by GMC
- Advanced subspecialty training in Glaucoma
Desirable criteria
- Competence in performing high volume and complex cataract surgery
Administration
Essential criteria
- Experience in day-to-day organisation of [***] services in a busy Teaching Hospital
- Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
- Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes
Management and Leadership
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
Desirable criteria
- Management course and/or qualification
Audit and Quality Improvement
Essential criteria
- Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit
- Must have undertaken and completed audit projects
Desirable criteria
- Audit Publications
Research and Publications
Essential criteria
- Experience of clinical research
- Publication of relevant review articles or case reports
Desirable criteria
- Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of Ophthalmology
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation
Desirable criteria
- Teaching skills course/qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Dr Eoin O'Sullivan
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- eoin.o'[email protected]
- Additional information
Danielle Moore
- General Manager Ophthalmology
- Email: [email protected]
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