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Job summary

Main area
Ophthalmology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent: NA
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
35.5 hours per week (covering both Sandwell and BMEC sites)
Job ref
381-SS-6848665
Employer
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre
Town
Birmingham
Salary
拢46,148 - 拢52,809 Pro Rota per anum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/12/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust logo

Ophthalmology Nurse Specialist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.

We have three strategic objectives:

People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;

Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;

Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;

We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.

Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.听

Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As 鈥淧eople鈥 is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.

Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.

Job overview

Do you have a passion for ophthalmology with patient care and quality as central to your values? Are you an experienced ophthalmic qualified nurse or optometrist working at a clinical practitioner level? Do you want to help develop a busy Ophthalmic OPD Advanced Practitioner team through an exciting change process where increasing number of patients will be cared for via AHP led clinics? Then this could be the position for you.

Main duties of the job

Due to the retirement of our current post holder we are excited to be able to advertise a Band 7 post (35.5 hours)听 as part of our AHP clinical team. The successful candidate will initially be working within our Glaucoma services and IVT services (1 clinic a week) with opportunities to develop skills in Corneal, Urgent Care, AMD and other subspecialities in the future.

You will be undertaking clinics both face to face and virtually within the glaucoma service to support both green and amber rag rated streams and will work towards competence in reviewing stable red patients in future.

Our IVT service is nurse led and we expect our AHP's to be competent in performing injections after a 2 week induction period if this is a new role.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care听organisation with a budget of approximately 拢600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.听

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens this year and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH . If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continue your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.听

We have three strategic objectives:

  1. Our People 鈥 to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
  2. Our Patients 鈥 to be good or outstanding in everything we do
  3. Our Population 鈥 to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Undertaking a session of IVT injections per week for AMD.

Undertaking both face to face and virtual glaucoma clinics from diagnosis to ongoing care pathway needs, including the ability to independently prescribe.

Support the development of junior staff within ophthalmology.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in an acute ophthalmic care environment
  • Advanced clinical practice skills
  • Proficient in IT skills

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered with appropriate professional body
  • Post basic qualifications
  • masters degree
  • Independent non medical prescriber qualification

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Armed Forces Covenant Bronze Award

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
Laura Young
Job title
Directorate Lead Nurse - Ophthalmology
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07964912158