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Salary We seek an experienced optometrist reporting to the head of optometry / ophthalmology support services to lead the delivery of optometry services across our main sites at Aintree University Hospital and Royal Liverpool University Hospital and satellite sites.
This role carries direct clinical, audit / research and management / leadership responsibilities. The position will is supported by 3 Band 8A Clinical Lead Optometrists and 20 Band 7 Specialist Optometrists.
The successful candidate is likely to have already achieved higher optometry qualifications and have, or be actively working towards, leadership & management qualifications.
This post is based at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, but willalsoinvolve working at Aintree University.
St Paul's Eye Unit is a Division within Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are a tertiary referral centre with around 370 staff including 44 Consultant Ophthalmologists.
We deliver Eye Emergency and General Ophthalmology services along with all subspecialty services including Ocular Neurology, Ocular Plastics and Ocular Oncology.
In addition to core optometry activities hospital Optometrists are involved in: Eye Emergency, Cornea, Cataract, Glaucoma, Diabetic, Medical Retinal and clinical research activities.
The post holder will personally deliver patient care in at least one subspecialty, deliver research activity and clinical audit as required, co-ordinate and lead the optometry team across sites ensuring thedelivery of timely,safe, quality care is maintained.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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St Paul's Eye Unit is a Division within Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are a tertiary referral centre with around 370 staff including 44 Consultant Ophthalmologists. We delivery eye emergency and general ophthalmology services along with all subspecialty services including ocular neurology, ocular plastics and ocular oncology. In addition to core optometry activities hospital optometrists are involved in: eye emergency, cornea, cataract, glaucoma, diabetic, medical retinal and clinical research activities. The post holder will personally deliver patient care in at least one subspecialty, deliver research activity and clinical audit as required, coordinate and lead the optometry team across sites ensuring thedelivery of timely,safe, quality care is maintained.
