Consultant Ophthalmologist (Medical Retina)

This is an opportunity to join a dynamic, progressive team with a multidisciplinary approach to medical retina management, including consultant complex and standard clinics, optometry and nurse monitoring clinics, and community and hospital-based virtual clinics.

We provide a comprehensive service within secondary care, serving a population of 670,000. A range of specialist Medical Retina services are provided within ABUHB.

The successful candidate will provide medical management within Medical Retina, and will work in partnership with an enthusiastic Ophthalmology department and wider multidisciplinary team. Our existing consultants have sub—specialty interests in medical retina, uveitis, glaucoma, anterior segment, oculoplastics, paediatric ophthalmology, and strabismus. The department also benefits from an ECLO, and supportive senior management.

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Main duties of the job

·         To provide Medical Retina ophthalmology complex outpatient clinics

·         To clinically support and train a multidisciplinary team including trainees, associate specialists, optometrists, and nurse practitioners.

·         Provide leadership and innovation in Medical Retina ophthalmology service delivery.