Consultant Ophthalmologist with special interest in Oculoplastics

at  Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

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. A 24-hour emergency clinic sees around 15,000 patients per year.
The main hospital sites house MRI, CT and Ultra-sound imaging. 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. 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. Eight medical secretaries and one support secretary work within the department and support the consultants. Remote working is well-supported by the Trust. Full job description is attached

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