DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Experience of managing Optometry services including contact lens and low vision services.
• Evidence of extended role experience.
• Knowledge of Information governance standards and maintenance of Ophthalmic imaging platforms.
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

We are looking for an experienced Orthoptist to join our Ophthalmology team and lead the Orthoptic and Optometry clinical service across Epsom
and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. The post holder will be responsible for leading our team of orthoptists and for providing expert
knowledge in the assessment of visual function and ocular motility disorders in all age groups, low vision services and stroke visual rehabilitation.
They will manage our team of Optometrists and imaging technicians and be overall responsible for the ophthalmic imaging. The successful
candidate will also provide a school vision screening service for the residents of Merton and support Ophthalmology clinical research.
The post holder will ensure provision of and be accountable for, the delivery of an efficient, high quality and caring Orthoptic and Optometry
clinical service across Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, which meets service and client requirements and encompasses a
wide range of specialist expertise and client groups.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Head of Orthoptics and Optometry Nursing role at Epsom and St Helier.