Job summary
- Main area
- Optometrist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 236-BCO-P424-25
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Townside Primary Care Centre
- Town
- Bury
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Optometrist
Band 7
Job overview
The Community Eye Service is a multidisciplinary service providing a wide range of core, advanced and extended practice clinics across Bury and Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, including Orthoptic, Optometry, Glaucoma, Low Vision, SEND, Stroke and Visual Processing Difficulties Clinics. This is a community based service but we also provide Orthoptic and low vision clinics to the Ophthalmology team at Rochdale Infirmary. We work with a number of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams and can provide experience of diverse work.
This post is a specialist Optometry clinical role delivering community Optometry clinics for patients in Bury, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale.
Our well established team invites innovation and new ideas , anyone showing enthusiasm for Optometry and care for the patients will be given a warm welcome.
Main duties of the job
· To be an Optometry lead within the Community Eye Services.
· To assess, diagnose and manage patients referred to the optometry department. This post is based within the community and carries a specialist caseload delivering a highly complex Optometric service and a comprehensive range of core services.
· To provide teaching and training of other healthcare professionals, junior doctors and other senior medical staff.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Experience and qualification
Essential criteria
- Qualification and GOC registration
- Post graduate training and experience to masters level
- Experience of working with children of all ages
Desirable criteria
- Working towards or achievement of additional qualifications
- Experience of working in secondary or community services
Communication
Essential criteria
- Work autonomously and as part of a team
Additional
Desirable criteria
- Driving licence
- Interest in audit/research
skills and ability
Essential criteria
- manage own workload
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
- Alison Wilson
- Job title
- Head of Community Eye Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07895213194
- Additional information
Please contact between 9-5pm for more details/arrange informal visit.
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