Principal Optometrist - Single Point of Access

Job overview

Moorfields Eye Hospital has expanded its Sparc services for managing ophthalmology referrals across London regions.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated clinical optometrist(s) for sessions as a Principal Optometrist working within our Single Point of Access team.

There are multiple sessions available. The posts will consist of delivering highly specialist clinical care.

Applicants need to have prior experience / understanding of working in the hospital service and already have the relevant higher qualifications from the College of Optometrists or be working towards them (see Person Specification).

As well as joining the largest hospital optometry department that delivers sub-speciality care, research and education within the optometry sector. Moorfields provides high quality ophthalmology services across the full range of sub-specialities in hospital and community settings

Main duties of the job

The post holder(s) will provide clinical expertise including but not limited to, assessment of patient referrals across all ophthalmic sub-specialties, onward care decision making with any appropriate escalation to urgent or non-ophthalmic services as well as communicating professionally with referrers with clinical advice and decision-making support.

The Single Point of Access service is rapidly growing and changing, and the post holder will make a significant contribution to this, including, but not limited to: insight generation from referral data at scale; identification of opportunities for service improvement; evidence generation to drive identified interventions; active participation in service redesign.

The successful applicants will report to the Clinical Lead for Sparc on a day to day basis as part of the wider Sparc team. The post holder is expected to also hold a clinical position.

The post holders will have responsibility for the clinical oversight of the pathway and clinical governance issues within the Sparc.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To deliver highly specialist clinical patient care requiring extensive knowledge, experience and expertise in management of ophthalmology referrals. This activity requires the judgement, analysis and interpretation of the complex clinical findings with a range of management options.

To have overall responsibility for the clinical care and supervision of patients managed in Sparc and future affiliated digitally-delivered clinical services.

To develop a deep understanding of clinical management pathways across multiple Integrated Care Systems, and be able to support best matching of patient clinical needs with available services.

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.