# Orthoptist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters, King's Mill Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Orthoptist
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-05T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22T13:40:51.354Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/SuttoninAshfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Orthoptics/Orthoptics-v8303449
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8303449?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

### See Beyond the Ordinary | Join Our Orthoptic Team

Orthoptics is about more than vision. It’s about solving clinical challenges and making a real difference to patients’ lives.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust welcomes applications from newly qualified and experienced Orthoptists.

You’ll assess, diagnose and manage ocular motility and visual development disorders, supporting children’s visual development and adults with double vision, neurological conditions and visual impairment.

A role with variety, support and room to grow.

Working alongside ophthalmologists and healthcare professionals, you’ll contribute to clinical decisions and personalised treatment plans across a varied caseload.

We support your development at every stage, offering structured preceptorship for newly qualified Orthoptists, mentoring for early-career practitioners and ongoing professional development.

Based primarily at King’s Mill Hospital, you’ll also work across Ashfield Health Village and Newark Hospital.

Why join us?

- Varied paediatric and adult caseloads.
- Supportive, collaborative colleagues.
- Preceptorship, mentoring and career development.
- Opportunities to expand your skills and contribute to service improvement.
- The chance to improve patients’ vision, independence and quality of life.

Ready to combine clinical challenge with meaningful patient care?

Bring your skills, curiosity and passion to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

### Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### 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**

- Experience working as an Orthoptist or experience of clinical placements for newly qualified orthoptists

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- The BMedSci orthoptic degree and/or Diploma of the British Orthoptic Society (DBO) or equivalent qualification

**Desirable**

- Annotated with exemptions

### Further Training

**Essential**

- Continuing Professional Development
- Competency based assessments

### Knowledge Requirements

**Essential**

- Orthoptics, Ophthalmology, Neurology

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of hospital computer systems

### Contractual Requirements

**Essential**

- Provide orthoptic service at King’s Mill Hospital

**Desirable**

- Able to travel to cover clinics at Ashfield Health Village and Newark Hospital

## Documents

- [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702)
- [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448)
- [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938)
- [nursing, midwifery & ahp strategy 25-28 (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2492)
- [orthoptist jd and person specification (pdf, 280.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10623036)

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