The successful applicant will be responsible for helping to provide glaucoma services for the county. Four other glaucoma consultants also provide glaucoma services in conjunction with specialist doctors, clinical nurse specialists, optometric and orthoptic staff. Experience of glaucoma drainage devices such as tubes and MIGS will be an advantage.
This post is based across our sites at Stoke Mandeville, Wycombe and Amersham Hospitals.
Planned AAC Interview date is Wednesday 12 February 2025.
The key duties and responsibilities are: -
• Specialist glaucoma service
• Outpatient clinics at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Wycombe/Amersham General Hospital
• Operating (including dedicated glaucoma operating lists)
• Teaching of Oxford deanery trainees and medical students
• Other care of inpatients or outpatients
• Clinical and other administration as required by agreement
• Teaching and training of junior staff and undergraduates
• Participation in Clinical Governance
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The Ophthalmic unit serves a population of around 1 million people mainly from Aylesbury Vale in Buckinghamshire, but including parts of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.
The unit is run from a purpose-built new building (the Mandeville Wing) which opened 12 years ago as well as sites at Wycombe and Amersham hospitals nearby. They are fully equipped with modern out-patient facilities including clinic rooms, Orthoptic and Optometric departments, visual fields, Argon, YAG and SLT lasers, Electro-diagnostics and a fully linked imaging suite which has anterior and posterior segment imaging including OCT, Fundus photography, Fluorescein and ICG angiography and auto-fluorescence imaging as well as Wavefront analysis. There is a 5 bedded Eye ward from which the emergency eye service is delivered, which is also housed within the new Mandeville wing.
The Consultant body covers most sub-specialty areas with little need for onward referral except in complex tertiary cases for which links with Oxford and Moorfields are readily available.
The unit sees around 50,000 out-patients per year at Stoke Mandeville site and a further 24,000 at Wycombe and Amersham sites.
There are around 6,400 operations per year in three dedicated eye theatres, and a separate cataract theatre unit for appropriate high-volume surgery. Most surgery is day-cases, but some inpatient cases are performed with access to the 5 in-patient beds on our ward 14.
The delivery unit has a General Manager, Service Manager and an accountant and is part of the Surgical Directorate.
Regular weekly teaching is held in conjunction with the Oxford Eye Hospital and research and audit projects are actively encouraged.
Microsurgical skills teaching and training is a strength of the unit and as well as having a well-established skills centre which has just been updated and the unit has an EyeSi surgical simulator.
The trust supports remote working where possible and appropriate e.g. for meetings, SPA and DCC admin activities.
Time off in lieu will be supported, e.g. such as with unforeseen emergency work overnight.
If mentoring is required, this is something that the department will actively support and facilitate.
Secretarial - 8 medical secretaries and one support secretary work within the department and support the consultants.
The proposed job plan would consist of 10 programmed activities; with the breakdown detailed within the job plan in the JD. This is subject to change based on clinic room and site availability.
This advert closes on Sunday 12 Jan 2025