Consultant Ophthalmologist Specialising in Medical Retina

Applications are invited for a Consultant Ophthalmologist post specialising in Medical Retina. This is a full-time substantive post St Paul's Eye Unit based at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Clinical activities include age-related macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease, retinal vascular disease, macular disease, general and acute ophthalmology. The successful candidate will join an established prestigious tertiary medical retina service and will also provide general and emergency ophthalmic services within working hours (plus one in sixteen all day Saturday). The proposed start date for this appointment is 1st January 2027.

St. Paul's Eye Unit St. Paul's Eye Unit is 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 forty substantive consultants including five clinical academics at consultant level, 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 fellows.