Senior Clinical Fellow in Medical Retina
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
GUY'S AND ST. THOMAS' HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Ophthalmology
Senior Clinical Fellow in Medical Retina - Maternity Cover
Maternity Cover - 1 year
Part Time - 32 hours per week (including 1:10 on call commitment)
Main duties of the job
Applications are invited for a fixed term position of a clinical fellow with a specialist interest in Medical Retina to join our renowned eye department. This post involves working to support the busy Medical Retina service including outpatients, injection & laser clinics.
The Medical Retina team consists of three consultants, two specialty doctors, numerous specialist trainee doctors, two nurse specialists, staff nurses, orthoptists, technicians and two ophthalmic imagers.
The ophthalmology department is well equipped with PDT, retinal, YAG, SLT lasers, 4 OCT's (Spectralis & Topcon), a digital fluorescein angiography system, a dedicated injection suite and eye theatres.
The new fellow will benefit from being exposed to a wide range of different Medical Retinal pathology including genetic disorders, CSCR and PDT treatment, hydroxychloroquine screening, sickle cell retinopathy, vein occlusions in addition to the more routine AMD and Diabetic Retinopathy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. This post also includes a 1:10 on call commitment.
Our excellent benefits include final salary pension scheme. Please visit our website to find out more.
About us
Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighboring NHS organizations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will, together with colleagues, be responsible for the provision of ophthalmic services to the Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust to include:
* Diagnosis and treatment of patients in face to face medical retina clinics and virtual review of those from image-capture clinics.
* Treatment of patients by the use of laser procedures.
* Treatment of patients such as patients with AMD, DMO and Retinal vein occlusion by the use of intravitreal injection.
* To cover eye emergency at least once per week.
* To take part in the registrar on call rota.
* Potential access to a theatre list (dependent on previous operating experience).
For further details / informal visits contact:
Samantha Mann Job title MR Consultant Email address samantha.mann@gstt.nhs.uk
Additional contact information:
Mr Nigel Davies, MR Consultant, nigel.davies@gstt.nhs.uk
Mr Moin Mohamed, MR Consultant, moin.mohamed@gstt.nhs.uk
Ms Samantha Mann, MR Consultant, samantha.mann@gstt.nhs.uk
*** Please be advised that this vacancy may close early should we receive sufficient number of applications ***
Person Specification
* Full GMC Registration and hold a licence to practise.
* Comprehensive clinical experience in ophthalmology.
* Sufficient clinical experience in the treatment of patients in medical retina at clinical fellow level.
* Experience in treating patients in eye casualty.
* Experience in on-calls.
* Experience in performing intravitreal injections.
* Experience of performing laser procedures.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
196-MED4709
Job locations
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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