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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
23 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Ability
Excellent communication skills and judgement. Demonstrate an ability to communicate compassionately, clearly and effectively with patients, carers or family.
- Ability
Evidence of experience in any relevant technical skills for the role.
- Ability
Demonstrate an ability to deliver fair, effective and compassionate leadership, communicate clearly with, and motivate team members.
- Motivation
Evidence of commitment to: Safe, effective person-centred care with shared decision making
- Motivation
Effective and efficient use of resources, reducing harm and waste
- Motivation
Continuous professional development and life-long learning
- Team Working
Demonstrated ability to work in a team with colleagues within own, and other disciplines.
- Team Working
Demonstrated ability and commitment to meeting NHS Lothian’s ‘Our Values into Action’
- Team Working
Demonstrated ability to organise time efficiently and effectively
- Team Working
Demonstrated Reliability and Flexibility
- Circumstances of Job
Required to work at any of NHS Lothian’s sites (and if appropriate other sites outwith NHS Lothian.
- Circumstances of Job
Competence with IT, in particularly managing emails, electronic dictation, prescribing and patient administration systems.
- Post Specific Experience
Fellowship, post CCT training or equivalent relevant experience in Vitreo-retinal surgery
- Post Specific Experience
Competence in general ophthalmology, including complex cataract cases.
- Post Specific Experience
Audit of cataract surgery outcomes and retinal detachment outcomes
- Qualifications and Training
GMC registered medical practitioner with a current Licence to practice.
- Qualifications and Training
Be on or, within 6 months of interview be eligible for inclusion on, the GMC Specialist Register in Ophthalmology.
- Qualifications and Training
FRCOphth / FRCSEd(Ophth) or equivalent
- Audit and Quality Improvement (QI)
Evidence of an understanding of audit principles, and previous participation in audit projects
- Audit and Quality Improvement (QI)
Evidence of an understanding of QI methodology, and previous participation in Quality improvement projects
- Academic Achievements including Teaching
Demonstrate previous experience of, or a commitment to participation and contribution to research and/or medical education.
- Academic Achievements including Teaching
Evidence of poster or oral presentations at national or international meetings
- Academic Achievements including Teaching
Commitment to formal and informal teaching and training of Junior Medical Staff and medical students.
Desirable
13 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Motivation
Evidence of development of, or improvement in services for patients.
- Motivation
Evidence of training, or participation in patient safety initiatives
- Team Working
Evidence of previous leadership or managerial training and experience
- Circumstances of Job
Current driving licence (if appropriate)
- Circumstances of Job
Experience with use of ophthalmology electronic patient records
- Qualifications and Training
Additional post-graduate qualifications, e.g. MD/PhD/MSc.
- Audit and Quality Improvement (QI)
Experience of designing and delivering audit programmes.
- Audit and Quality Improvement (QI)
Experience of designing and delivering a QI programme.
- Academic Achievements including Teaching
Evidence of research and publications in peer reviewed journals.
- Academic Achievements including Teaching
Evidence of previous experience in successful research funding
- Academic Achievements including Teaching
Evidence of teaching qualification.
- Academic Achievements including Teaching
Evidence of training in clinical and / or educational supervision
- Academic Achievements including Teaching
Experience of, or training in use of simulation training.
Job details
- Job reference: 258802
- Salary: Consultant (£111,430 - £148,064)
- Job closing date: 18/09/2026
- Job Type: Medical and Dental
- Location: The Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion
- Employment type: Fixed-term
- Hours Per Week: 20
- Job posted date: 04/09/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lothian
- Department: Ophthalmology
NHS Lothian
NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
Applicants must have full GMC Registration, a license to practise and eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview. Portfolio Pathway (formerly known as CESR - Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive consultant post once it has been awarded. Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.
Applications are welcome for the above Fixed Term, part time (20 hours per week) post based in Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion.
Job Title: Consultant Ophthalmologist with an Interest in Medical Retina
Department: Ophthalmology, Head and Neck
Base: Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion, NHS Lothian
You may also be required to work at any of NHS Lothian sites.
Post Summary: The post is at Consultant level in the Ophthalmology department, with an interest in Medical
Retina. The hospital base will be the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion, with sessions at St. John’s Hospital,
Livingston and the Royal Hospital of Children and Young People. More detailed departmental and specialty
information can be found in the job description available via email address / link below.
For an informal discussion please contact:
Ash Khan, Clinical Director – Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion 0131 536 3755, ashraf.khan@nhs.scot; and Karen McCabe, Clinical Service Manager – Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion 0131 536 3755, karen.mccabe@nhs.scot.
If viewing from an external site, please visit https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk for a job pack detailing the minimum requirements for this post and details of how to apply.
We cannot accept CV’s as a form of application and only a completed online application form will be accepted. Personal information will not be sent with the application for short listing. The application form will be identified by the candidate number only to ensure that all applicants are treated equally.
***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***
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This advert is for Locum Consultant in Ophthalmology with NHS Lothian in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Ophthalmology role. The advertised salary is £111,430 - £148,064. The contract type is Fixed-term. The application deadline is 18 Sep 2026.
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