Consultant Neuro-Ophthalmologist

Applications are invited for the post of Substantive Consultant Neuro-Ophthalmologist at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB). The post will be based on a full time 10 PA Substantive Post. Job overview This post has been created to contribute to a tertiary specialist neuro-ophthalmology service receiving referrals for afferent and efferent disease from across the region and more widely, working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Department Ophthalmology is located at four hospital sites as part of UHB which are: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB), Heartlands Hospital Birmingham (HHB), Solihull Hospital (SH) and Good Hope Hospital (GHH). Neuro-ophthalmology is based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. There are more than 40 substantive consultants who provide an outpatient and surgical service. The entire range of Ophthalmology sub-speciality clinics are provided and there is a close communication with consultants in other specialities. As well as consultant ophthalmologists the eye service is supported by ophthalmic specialist trainees, staff-grades, fellows, orthoptists, optometrists, ophthalmic nurses, nurse specialists, and ophthalmic technicians. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a tertiary neurosciences centre with inpatient neurology and neurosurgery, neuro-oncology and neuro-radiology, providing regional skull base and pituitary, neurovascular, and CSF multidisciplinary teams, that the post holder will be embedded with.