Specialty Doctor for Medical Retina

JOB TITLE: Specialty Doctor in Ophthalmology with Medical Retina sub-specialty GRADE: Specialty Doctor DEPARTMENT: Ophthalmology ACCOUNTABLE TO: Managerial Responsibility Lead Consultant and / or Clinical Director Professional Accountability Medical Director administered through Divisional Director PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES: Clinical The post holder's core duties of 10 sessions will be within the Oxford Eye Hospital [KC(O1]and will form a mixture of face to face, virtual and injection clinics. There will be admin time allocated as part of the job plan for administrative duties. There is no theatre session in the post, and the successful applicant may be required to work across sites.The medical retina department provides care via virtual as well as face to face appointments. Applications from those wishing to work part time are welcomed.

About the MR service: The Oxford Eye Hospital provides medical retina services to the Oxfordshire Population of 738,000. This post holder will provide Specialty Doctor care in medical retina (vascular medical retina and AMD services). The current medical retina team comprises seven other medical retina consultants (some of whom are academic or less than full time), medical retina fellows, several general fellows and optometrists with extended roles. Deanery trainees also work with in the service. The intravitreal injection service is provided largely by allied health professionals. Separate uveitis, ocular oncology, genetics and vitreoretinal services provided at the Oxford Eye hospital are outside the scope of this post. The Oxford Eye Hospital works closely with the University of Oxford, thus conferring a wide range of opportunities for collaborations in research and teaching. The postholders would have the opportunity to work within a dynamic consultant team and help develop expansion of community based outreach medical retina clinics. The appointees should have extensive clinical experience including advanced training in MR; experience of working in the NHS; established clinical leadership skills and the ability to develop and innovate new models of patient care. A willingness and ability to help train and mentor ophthalmology trainees and allied health professionals are essential. This post is included in the consultant on call rota.