Clinical Fellow in Glaucoma

at  East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

This is a full-time clinical and surgical fellowship post for the period of one year (with the possibility to extend for another year), offering specific training in most aspects of glaucoma medical, laser and surgical management, and delivery of complex cataract surgery.
The post-holder may be expected to perform independent cataract surgical lists, and cross cover. The successful applicant will be expected to be able to perform independent surgery, although specific training will be offered in complex cataract surgery, and high volume cataract surgery.
The post-holder will work closely with our two consultant glaucoma surgeons, offering considerable surgical training opportunities in a broad spectrum of glaucoma and complex cataract surgical intervention with an additional angle-closure cataract component, including gonio-synechialysis and visco-gonioplasty tretaments. The post-holder will be expected to participate in the design and delivery of a partly virtualised glaucoma monitoring service. The department has an active research programme and the successful applicant will be expected to contribute to this, and support ongoing studies.
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients’ own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.
We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites – totalling £100million over the next five years.
We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.
We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.
At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There’s a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children’s Unit.
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Management of urgent Glaucoma cases
Cross cover of vacant cataract lists
Supervision of junior medical staff in the Service
Participation in informal and formal Teaching (including national and international Presentations)
There is a General On-Call commitment