Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/03/2025 23:59
Consultant Ophthalmologist with an Interest In Glaucoma
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued, and appreciated. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages, and financial support systems.
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a whole-time Consultant Ophthalmologist with an interest in Glaucoma to be employed by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We welcome applications from candidates across the full spectrum of experience, from those who have recently completed training to those who have well-established careers.
Main duties of the job
The appointee will, together with Consultant colleagues, be responsible for the provision of a comprehensive, effective, and modern Ophthalmology service, practising the full remit of the specialty. They will take their equal share in providing sub-specialty cover and will be required to cover for colleagues during periods of absence. They will have continuing responsibility for patients in their care and the proper functioning of the Department. They will be expected to take part in the support and training of junior Ophthalmologists and the development and training of medical students and ancillary allied professionals.
Appointments are made to the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the person appointed is required to be sufficiently flexible to undertake their main clinical duties at any of the sites within the Trust and/or to change their base hospital.
The successful candidate will work according to the terms and conditions of the national consultant contract.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the supporting job description and person specification which will outline the duties of the role including an indicative job plan. Applications from those unable, for personal reasons, to work on a whole-time basis or a job share basis will be considered.
The successful candidate must be registered with the GMC with a valid licence to practice. You will also have completed Specialist Training (or equivalent) and be entered on the Specialist Register of the GMC, or have a CCT date within six months of the date of interview.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Full registration (with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC).
* Name on the specialist register for relevant specialty or eligible within 6 months of the date of the interview.
* MD or PhD or equivalent
* Further qualifications in research methods, teaching, and/or management
Research
* Ability to critically assess published research and incorporate it into clinical practice where appropriate
* Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical and surgical problems
* Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Continuous Professional Development
* Evidence of participation in CME/CPD in the last 12 months
* Maintenance of a CPD diary or portfolio
Management and Administration
* Evidence of the understanding of the systems and structures of NHS Management
Personal attributes
* Demonstrates behaviour consistent with PROUD values.
* Good oral and written communication skills
* The applicant must demonstrate skills in listening, reading, writing, and speaking the English language that enables effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues.
Clinical governance and audit
* Experience in performing clinical audit
* Completion and publication of a substantive audit project or service improvement project
Teaching and training
* Experience of teaching student doctors and doctors in training at all levels
* Evidence of past training and ongoing CPD as an Educator
* To have the ability to teach to all groups of staff
* Advanced Teaching Qualification
Clinical experience
* Evidence of subspecialist training in Glaucoma.
* Glaucoma surgical experience including MIGS related cataract surgery
* Ability to work as an independent practitioner.
* Evidence of competence in small incision day case cataract surgery.
* Completion of Glaucoma Fellowship.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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