Locum Consultant Ophthalmologist in Medical Retina & Urgent Care

at  Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Locum Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in the Medical Retina & Leading the Urgent Care Service in the North Divisions (Northwick Park & Ealing Site)
The post holder will be responsible for the ongoing care and management of Medical Retina patients within the trust. The successful candidate will be expected to provide training for junior doctors and to support the further development of the Allied Health Care Professionals within the service.
Candidates should have completed their Specialist Training in Ophthalmology, have their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent, or be within six months of their CCT date. Candidates are required to be in possession of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists or equivalent. The holder of this post is required to be fully registered with the General Medical Council and hold a license to practice. The successful candidate should have completed at least a year of subspecialty Medical Retina fellowship training.
The post is located between Moorfields Eye Hospital at Ealing Hospital and Moorfields Eye Centre at Northwick Park Hospital. There are ten programmed activities PA’s.
Whilst this is a general medical retina job, the post holder will have responsibilities for retinal therapies including theatres and the injection services across the trust. The postholder will participate in the medical retina and uveitis on-call rota which is a 1:25 rota currently and includes weekdays and weekends.
A provisional timetable is enclosed, but this will be subject to change as the Moorfields unit develops and grows. In particular, there is increasing emphasis nationally on extending the opening times of hospitals into the evenings, weekends and clinic in the community. The timetable may therefore change in future to meet the demands of this extended service
Detailed information about the main duties of the post can be found in the document attached to the advert.
Working for your organisation
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of eye health services in the UK and a world-class centre of excellence for ophthalmic research and education. We have a reputation, developed over two centuries, for providing the highest quality of ophthalmic care. Our 2,300 staff are committed to sustaining and building on our pioneering legacy and ensuring we remain at the cutting edge of developments in ophthalmology.
Moorfields has contracts with more than 80 primary care trusts across the country, making us a truly national centre for eye care.
We are also a major postgraduate teaching centre and a national centre for ophthalmic research involving, with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, the largest ophthalmic research programme in the world.
We continue to make headlines with our ground-breaking research and, along with our partners at the Institute, we have the highest measure of scientific productivity and impact in the world for our research activity.
We are one of only 11 sites nationally with National Institute for Health Research biomedical research centre status for translational research. This has recently been renewed for another 5 years with a substantial increase in research funding.
We have recently completed the development for our 10-year clinical strategy – Our Vision of Excellence, which continues to develop our networked model of service delivery for hospital and community based care.
All doctors are responsible to maintain a portfolio of their career over the last 5 years in order to satisfy GMC Revalidation criteria. If successful, you will be required to bring along your supporting information portfolio including recent appraisals documents when joining the Trust

Please refer the Job description for details