Job overview

Applications are invited for two 12-month Senior Clinical Fellowship positions in Uveitis in Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. One post starting in August 2025 (or the earliest possible date) and the send post starting in January 2026. 

These posts provide in-depth training in uveitis diagnosis and management in the Manchester Uveitis Clinic, one of the busiest uveitis services in Europe. The post includes adult and paediatric uveitis. There will be opportunities for research including clinical trials. Start date can be discussed.

Applicants will be expected to have completed, or to be near to completion of, their higher specialist training programme or equivalent in ophthalmology. Candidates must have FRCOphth/MRCOphth or equivalent.

Main duties of the job

Successful candidates will attend all timetabled clinical sessions promptly and provide a reliable consultation service. You will contribute to the urgency provision of the unit by:

·         Acting as a point of contact for internal tertiary referrals during normal working hours and liaising with uveitis consultants over the transfer of patient care.

·         Providing emergency and urgent uveitis reviews for new tertiary referrals (in and out-patients)

·         Providing urgent ad hoc consultations for existing patients with recurrent problems

·         Contributing to the development of clinic management protocols and patient information pamphlets.

·         Contributing to the education of trainee ophthalmologists who are not members of the uveitis team, by raising the profile of uveitis at postgraduate meetings, making frequent presentations there, and by providing informal and formal teaching to junior doctors.

·         Contributing to service development.

·         Contributing to research

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.