Our NHS Orbital Prosthetists love their jobs and as part of this exciting opportunity you will be given full ‘in-house’ training in specification, assessing, fitting and aftercare for NHS artificial eye wearers. The result of which will provide you with an extremely rewarding career, providing direct care for patients across England and making a positive difference to their everyday lives.
This role is fixed term for 12 months and will be made permanent on successfully completing 'in-house' training as below.
An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to undertake the training to become an Orbital Prosthetist with the NHS National Artificial Eye Service (NAES). This highly skilled role involves the specification, assessment, fitting, and aftercare of artificial eyes for NHS patients throughout England. This post will be shared between your main base location in Stapleford, Nottingham, designated outreach clinics in the surrounding area and any location throughout England dependent on current service delivery needs.
The successful applicant will be expected to undertake and successfully complete the comprehensive 'in-house' training provided by the NAES training team. This will be provided at various locations throughout England for the first 12 months.
Once trained, you will specify, assess, fit, and adjust artificial prostheses, and provide aftercare, to patients referred by Consultant Ophthalmologists and other NHS colleagues for the provision, treatment, and maintenance of artificial eyes.
The successful candidate will be joining a vastly experienced and highly skilled team who cover the whole of England through over 70 different clinic locations. The team pride themselves on the relationships they have established with the patients and their families, and the wide range of relevant health professionals that they encounter when carrying out this role. You will be supported and encouraged to use all your newly acquired skills to allow yourself, the team, and your patients to flourish. The team is a very proactive team with a great 'can do' attitude and there will be plenty of opportunities to help develop the service with innovative ideas.
Reporting to the NAES Clinical Services Manager, duties will include:
Providing specialist treatment to artificial eye patients in clinics located in Hospitals, GP surgeries, Primary Care settings or occasionally in their own homes covering the whole of England.
Specifying, ordering, assessing, fitting, and adjusting artificial prostheses, and providing aftercare, to patients referred to our service by Consultant Ophthalmologists and other NHS colleagues.
Successfully navigating the comprehensive ‘in-house’ training which will be provided to the post holder. Therefore previous experience in this specific field is not essential.
Undertaking ongoing in-service training and embracing, engaging with and supporting our research and development objectives. Therefore, the successful applicant should be motivated, keen to learn and ready to embrace change.
Frequent travel and overnight stays as per service delivery needs, therefore a high level of flexibility and willingness to adapt is required.
If you are motivated to deliver high standards of care and have the personal qualities and characteristics as outlined in the person specification, then this could be the post for you.
*Please see attached the job description and person specification for more detailed information about this role*
This advert closes on Thursday 20 Mar 2025
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