Locum Paediatric Ophthalmology Consultant

The post is for a fixed term Locum Consultant Ophthalmologist with specialist interest in Paediatric Ophthalmology with Adult Neuro. This is a Locum post in the Musculoskeletal and Specialist Surgery CMG (MSS/MSK), and the Ophthalmology services are based at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, Eat Midlands planned care centre, community hospitals and GP sites within the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

The post holder will be 1 of 31 Ophthalmologists offering General and Sub-Speciality Ophthalmology. The Department of Ophthalmology provides a Consultant led team approach to adult and paediatric inpatient treatment across the broad spectrum of ophthalmic disorders.

As a department Ophthalmology at UHL sees roughly 166,671 patients per year across outpatients, inpatients/theatre and outpatient procedures (this is also including approx. 24,000 eye casualty patients). The post holder will be expected to see approx.:

This post does include 1x session of Eye Casualty session per week, 1 x Saturday operating theatre list per week, 1 x evening session. Please note, participation in the on-call rota is mandatory.

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