Lead orthoptist

at  The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated orthoptist with excellent communication and organisational skills to take this role as Lead Orthoptist and Lead for AHP’s. If you are a skilled Orthoptist looking to step into a leadership role, and have a passion for delivering high-quality clinical care while also guiding and inspiring a team. If you are looking to expand your experience and knowledge in extended roles. Then look no further as this is an excellent opportunity for you. As Lead Orthoptist, you will play a pivotal role in leading our Orthoptic and paediatric services, ensuring the delivery and maintenance of exceptional service standards.

OUR REQUIREMENTS:

Demonstrate ability to conduct and oversee clinical activities, manage and support staff, provide excellent patient care and conduct audits.
Registered Orthoptist with significant clinical experience in AHP led clinics
Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse team.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues, patients, and external stakeholders.

• To provide high quality Orthoptic services as an autonomous practitioner and manage own clinical workload .
• To assess, diagnose, treat and manage, the patients referred to the Orthoptic service. Including Paediatric visual disorders, ocular motility disorders, neuro-ophthalmology and other ophthalmic conditions and congenital developmental abnormalities.
• To take managerial role as lead orthoptist for fellow colleague, junior orthoptist and optometrist including: management of sickness absence and reorganisation of workload according to clinical priority of patient needs.
• To be responsible for the day to day orthoptic clinics and management of the Orthoptic services in the department and be able to do extended role within ophthalmology using Ophthalmic Practitioner Training ( OPT ) training programmes.
• To take the lead of orthoptic services across other service boundaries including Neuro-ophthalmology, Glaucoma, Paediatric and Eye Emergency clinics and other sub-specialities within ophthalmology.
• To be responsible for line managing AHP (Allied Health professionals) team of orthoptist, optometrist and recording, inputting and reporting and managing sickness, absence, annual leave, study leave, yearly appraisals, 6 monthly reviews, training programmes and maintaining competencies and deal with any issues related to the team. In addition, provide training, supervision and assessment of undergraduate and post graduate orthoptists.

Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
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