# Highly Specialist Orthoptist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Northern General Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Orthoptist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 5 months (All existing NHS staff will only be considered on a secondment basis. Role can be job shared.)
- **Employment type:** Part time, Job share, 30 sessions per week (Specified days in line with service need.)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-04T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-21T00:03:24.640Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Sheffield/Sheffield_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Orthoptics/Orthoptics-v8184210
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8184210?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sth.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Join our team and play a key role in delivering and developing our specialist Neuro-Orthoptic Service, providing expert, evidence-based care to complex patients while supporting, leading and developing colleagues within a friendly, collaborative and forward-thinking Orthoptic team.

### Main duties of the job

To lead and deliver a high-quality, evidence-based Neuro-Orthoptic service, providing highly specialised assessment, diagnosis and management to patients across a wide range of complex ophthalmic, neurological and medical conditions, including tertiary referrals. The role provides clinical and professional leadership to the Neuro-Orthoptic team, including training, supervision, audit and quality improvement, while supporting the Orthoptic Professional Service Manager with the operational management and development of the wider Orthoptic service. The postholder works autonomously and collaboratively with Ophthalmologists and the wider multidisciplinary team, provides specialist clinical advice, manages dedicated Neuro-Orthoptic clinics, and contributes to extended roles within the scope of practice and Agenda for Change banding.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Advanced clinical practice, both in theory and practical knowledge in a range of clinical areas, particularly in neuro-orthoptics
- Knowledge and experience of clinical matters beyond direct clinical role
- Significant advanced clinical experience in assessment & management of patients with active and sight-threatening disease across multiple areas of specialist clinical practice
- Evidence of on-going commitment to continuing professional development following BIOS/HCPC guidelines.
- Visual field examination and interpretation
- Experience of clinical teaching of Orthoptics.
- IT skills

### Personal Qualities

**Essential**

- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills; ability to communicate complex, sensitive and potentially conflicting information to patients and other stakeholders in an appropriate manner independent of their level of understanding
- Leadership, organisational and negotiating skills
- Ability to use initiative and quickly interpret complex and potentially conflicting clinical information
- Capable of performing sustained high intensity work in a pressurised clinical environment
- Skills of persuasion
- Possesses precise, fine-motor physical examination skills
- Works well autonomously
- Self-motivated
- Conscientious
- Enthusiastic
- Excellent time management

### Skills & Knowledge

**Essential**

- To be approachable and maintain an excellent rapport with colleagues
- Good verbal and written communication skills with adults, carers, parents and children, students and all staff disciplines.
- Evidence of working successfully as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently.
- Ability to produce written reports

**Desirable**

- Skilled in use of slit lamp, optic disc imaging and interpretation of visual fields results, or other ophthalmic investigations usually carried out by specialist medical staff
- Experience of research and development activities
- Experience undertaking and presenting audit

### Education & Qualifications

**Essential**

- Orthoptics BMedSci OR . BSc (Hons) Orthoptics OR . Orthoptics BSc (Hons) OR . Diploma from British Orthoptic Council (DBO)
- To be registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Postgraduate plus further training relevant to sub-specialist practice e.g. higher degree e.g. MSc OR . Relevant short courses and experience to a Masters level
- Accredited clinical tutors’ course

**Desirable**

- Role of clinical advisor or active involvement in a BIOS extended role clinical advisory group
- Post masters experience in specialist area developing advanced clinical skills and leadership
- Leadership qualification
- Medical exemptions for Orthoptists

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 306.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10527787)
- [ps (pdf, 342.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10527788)
- [staff benefits (pdf, 2.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2420)
- [information for candidates (pdf, 496.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2162)
- [applicants - how we use your information (pdf, 87.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2165)
- [getting to work at sheffield teaching hospitals (pdf, 212.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2163)
- [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 124.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2211)
- [a guide to using artificial intelligence and with your personal statement (pdf, 163.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2894)
- [candidate application best practice guide - please read before completing your application (pdf, 304.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2161)

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