Lead Optometrist – Core Optometry

Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has arisen at Bristol Eye Hospital as we recruit to the role of Lead Optometrist – Core (including low vision, contact lenses and paediatric services).

This is a senior 8B post that is a crucial member of the Optometry and wider Bristol Eye Hospital leadership team.  If successful, you will lead a group of Core Optometrists, working closely with multidisciplinary teams within Bristol Eye Hospital to ensure services are innovative, patient focused, clinically and cost effective.  You will be an experienced optometrist who can evidence their excellent clinical, management and leadership skills.  You will have the skills and abilities to supervise both junior and more experienced members of staff.  You will be a compassionate, skilled and experienced clinician who is able to work autonomously.

Main duties of the job

About us:

The Optometry Department at Bristol Eye Hospital is well established and integrated into the multidisciplinary environment of Bristol Eye Hospital, providing clinical management of eye health to people in Bristol, Weston and across the South West of England.

Optometrists in the department are a diverse team of highly capable clinicians who work across a broad range of multi-professional services from highly skilled core optometry to complex and specialised services, including cornea, medical retina, glaucoma, paediatrics and ED.

Frequently engaged with the broader aspects of optometry and eye health, including education, research and leadership, optometrists in the department are encouraged to develop professionally as well as personally.

A glimpse of life at Bristol Eye Hospital:   https://youtu.be/he7-XrxIopo

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Bristol Eye Hospital has a large Optometry department including over 40 individuals.  The service is led by the Head of Optometry along with 5 Lead Optometrists across the different specialty areas, including this post which leads on Core Services.  Bristol Eye Hospital is a vibrant, innovative and supportive place to work where all disciplines are highly valued.  The hospital includes an Emergency Department, outpatient services seeing more than 120,000 patients a year, a ward, a Clinical Research Unit and 4 operating theatres.  There are a number of exciting estate developments happening in the near future including the redesign of the ground floor of the Hospital which includes space for delivering Optometry services  -this role will be crucial in helping to design layouts that are fit for coming generations.

See yourself at Bristol Eye Hospital – this video explains more about the benefits of working at Bristol Eye Hospital.