# Advanced Clinical Optometrist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/advanced-clinical-optometrist/20523a76-73bc-4160-8646-31dfc709bdfe - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/advanced-clinical-optometrist/20523a76-73bc-4160-8646-31dfc709bdfe.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Colchester - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 11.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-14T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-28T14:21:53.209Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Ipswich/East_Suffolk_North_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Optometry/Optometry-v8043463 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8043463?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are offering exciting opportunity for a highly experience Optometrist to join our team in an advanced clinical optometrist role. You will join a multidisciplinary team to provide high quality ophthalmic care for the patients of Suffolk and surrounding areas. As an advanced clinical optometrist you will have significant previous experience delivering sub speciality ophthalmology care and will be an independent prescriber on the General Optical Council Speciality register. You will be delivering independent Ophthalmology and Optometry clinics as well as supporting training and education within the department and the wider optometry community. For candidates with less experience and post graduate qualifications, we would welcome an application to join the team in a developmental position, starting at either Band 6 or 7 depending on previous qualifications and experience.  Progression through salary bands will depend on achievement of both clinical competency and post graduate qualifications. We are fully committed to support the successful applicant to develop knowledge, skills and achieve competence. ### Main duties of the job - To act as an autonomous advanced clinical practitioner providing high quality, individualised clinical management for patients using advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to determine and initiate changes to treatment as necessary. - 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 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 - Use highly developed technical skills to provide specialist ocular treatments such as YAG laser and SLT - 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. ## Job Details We are offering exciting opportunity for a highly experience Optometrist to join our team in an advanced clinical optometrist role. You will join a multidisciplinary team to provide high quality ophthalmic care for the patients of Suffolk and surrounding areas. As an advanced clinical optometrist you will have significant previous experience delivering sub speciality ophthalmology care and will be an independent prescriber on the General Optical Council Speciality register. You will be delivering independent Ophthalmology and Optometry clinics as well as supporting training and education within the department and the wider optometry community. For candidates with less experience and post graduate qualifications, we would welcome an application to join the team in a developmental position, starting at either Band 6 or 7 depending on previous qualifications and experience. Progression through salary bands will depend on achievement of both clinical competency and post graduate qualifications. We are fully committed to support the successful applicant to develop knowledge, skills and achieve competence. ## Job Description To act as an autonomous advanced clinical practitioner providing high quality, individualised clinical management for patients using advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to determine and initiate changes to treatment as necessary. 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 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 Use highly developed technical skills to provide specialist ocular treatments such as YAG laser and SLT 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 ## Responsibilities For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive experience working with HES including significant extended role work in sub speciality - Experience of all core optometry sub-specialities (Low vision aid assessments, complex contact lens fitting, complex and paediatric refraction) - Experience in clinical supervision and teaching. ### Qualifications **Essential** - BSc Hons Optometry or equivalent - GOC registration - Professional post-graduate specialist qualification(s),at Masters level or above, relevant to sub-specialist practice (e.g. College of Optometrists Dip Glau; Dip CL) - GOC Specialty Registration (Independent Prescribing). Non-medical prescribing, with evidence of updating knowledge appropriate to patient groups prescribing across a range of ophthalmology sub-specialty areas **Desirable** - Postgraduate masters (or higher) level clinical research experience relevant to sub-specialist practice - Masters in Advanced Practice or Masters level award ## Documents - [staff networks (pdf, 230.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724) - [dbs information (pdf, 315.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262) - [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146) - [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 437.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10332110) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.