Advance Medical Retina Specialist

Job overview

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a passionate, forward-thinking Advance Retina Specialist to join our dynamic and expanding Ophthalmology Department.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work at one of the largest and most innovative NHS Trusts in the region, delivering high-quality care to a diverse patient population.

At ESNEFT, we pride ourselves on clinical excellence, collaborative teamwork, and continuous development. You’ll be part of a supportive, multidisciplinary service that encourages autonomy, advanced practice, and expanded clinical skills.

As an Advanced Retina Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in delivering expert assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients with retinal disease. Working closely with consultants and the wider ophthalmic team, you will contribute to high-impact clinical pathways and help shape modern retina services.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a range of extended specialist role services.
• Working as an autonomous registered practitioner with significant experience in an ophthalmology extended role providing high quality, individualised clinical management for patients with retinal diseases using advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to determine and initiate changes to treatment as necessary.
• Act as a specialist clinical expert in direct contact care, able to make high level skills decisions, informed by advanced history taking, diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills. To be responsible and accountable for own decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice
• To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients resulting in the safe management of patients, autonomously formulate appropriate management plans for patients
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of own level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.