Consultant Ophthalmologist

at  Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The new appointee will share responsibilities with consultant colleagues for providing a high standard of comprehensive eye care and, will be expected to develop services in his or her special interest, not only within the Kettering NHS Trust but with the local corneal services at Leicester and Norhampton at a later date, as part of an ongoing countrywide strategy for developing acute services. The successful candidate will also have one dedicated session supporting the Eye casualty service. The consultant will be part of the Corneal MDT group based at Leicester and will be able to avail of peer support. The on-call commitment is one week in seven and covers the north of the county and is based at Kettering.
Other duties include the full range of administrative activities involved in running the clinics and department including training and supervision of junior staff and supervision of clinical audit as well as working with other specialities. The appointee will be expected to take part in CME activities in line with College recommendations. The department was successful in receiving Action on Cataracts funding and runs a two-stop cataract service. We are also proud to host an EyeSi simulation suite within the department that has trained several ophthalmic trainees in the region and non -ophthalmic doctors in the trust.
This is only unit with an up-to-date EyeSi facility in the region

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