Vitreo-Retinal Fellow

at  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

St. Paul’s Eye Unit is a Division, part of the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a merger between the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Trust and the Aintree Trust. St. Paul’s is located on three sites: the Royal, Aintree and the South Liverpool Treatment Centre at Garston.
Senior medical staff currently comprises almost 30 substantive consultants including five clinical academics at consultant level, three locum consultants, two associate specialists and six specialty doctors. In addition two consultants from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital participate in the strabismus services. Doctors in training comprise two clinical lecturers, specialist trainees and sub-specialty fellow posts, including two surgical corneal fellows.
This fellowship role is a training post for a total of 12 months. This is a replacement for the fellows currently in post due to complete in August 2025. The Vitreoretinal fellows work within St Paul’s eye unit, covering VR emergencies, theatres and outpatients. The subspecialty is led by Rumana Hussain and the Divisional Medical Director for the Ophthalmology is Mark Batterbury.
The Trust is altering its remuneration package for the vitreoretinal fellow post, to recognise the out-of-hours work performed over and above the basic working week. The detail of that package has not yet been agreed, but will lift the basic salary by approximately 30%. It is expected that the package will be in place by the time the successful candidate starts .
The vitreoretinal fellowship includes clinical sessions of 7 surgical and 3 outpatient based roles. In addition, the assessment and organisation of retinal emergencies, organisation of theatre lists and post-operative reviews. This is under the supervision of a team of 7 vitreoretinal consultants led by R Hussain.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
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The fellow timetable includes Monday (am theatre, pm OPD), Tuesday (all day OPD), Weds-Fri (all day theatre and admin).
Out of hours work during the week is uncommon but includes taking calls regarding and reviewing emergency patients. Weekend work includes emergency patient reviews, post-operative reviews and some surgical activity when required.
The on call is split between the 2 fellows

Please refer the Job description for details