Advanced Orthoptist: Lead Clinical Tutor

Job overview

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and highly experienced Advanced Orthoptist to join our service as Lead Clinical Tutor.

This is an exciting opportunity for an Orthoptist passionate about clinical education and supporting the next generation of Orthoptists. You will help maintain and develop a positive, high-quality learning environment for undergraduate and MSc pre-registration students attending Moorfields for placements across 26 weeks of the year.

Working closely with the Orthoptic Education Lead and friendly multi-disciplinary team, you will support student placements, deliver teaching, provide feedback and help support clinical supervisors.

We are looking for someone who is clinically confident, approachable and organised, with prior experience as a clinical supervisor. If you are keen to combine advanced practice and leadership, as we prepare for our next chapter moving into a new purpose-built eye hospital designed to support innovation in clinical care, research and education we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will take a lead role in supporting undergraduate and postgraduate orthoptic clinical education, helping to create a positive and well-structured learning experience for students during their placements. This will include developing student timetables, liaising with university tutors and colleagues, to ensure high quality placement opportunities. The post holder will provide formative and summative feedback, helping students develop confidence, clinical skills and professional practice. A commitment to obtaining a recognised qualification will be encouraged and supported.

Alongside the education element of the role, the post holder will continue to hold a specialist orthoptic case working independently across a range of sub-speciality clinics. The role would suit a highly experienced Orthoptist with strong clinical skills who enjoys combining advanced core practice with teaching, supervision and service development, while working collaboratively with the Orthoptic Education Lead and wider team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A detailed job description and  specification is attached. In addition to having extensive clinical experience, lead clinical tutor duties will include:

• Ability to demonstrate, teach and supervise where appropriate a range of medical and non-medical personnel from student Orthoptics to a range of healthcare professionals based within the trust.
• Be competence in teaching in both informal and formal settings, able to work in conjunction with others in developing a range of training opportunities.
• Support, maintain and maximise good clinical learning environment opportunities for Orthoptic students.
• Lead clinical placements for Orthoptic students in-line with placement objectives.
• Undertake induction and conduct in person formative and summative assessments.
• Offer advice and support for new to role clinical supervisors.
• Liaise with other sites and sub-specialities to provide in advance student timetables with designated supervisors.
• Maintain and produce tutorial material to meet the needs of the clinical placement.
• Provide compensate care to learners attending the department whilst on placements.
• Maintain database and records of clinical placement attendance.
• Deliver the highest possible standards of working relationships and be able to work autonomously, making decisions based on expertise within an inter-professional or multi-disciplinary framework at all levels internally and with appropriate HEI’s.
• Act as a role model for learners and demonstrate what good practice looks like.
• Maintain confidentiality to staff and students when discussing placement / education within clinical settings trust wide.
• Support student with Freedom to Speak Up. Ensure correct procedures are carried out.