Ready to take your first step into hospital optometry? Are you a newly qualified optometrist eager to move beyond the high street and dive into the exciting world of hospital eye care? Join us as a Resident Optometrist and kick-start your journey into ophthalmology–where every day brings new learning, challenges, and the chance to make a real difference in patient care.
Job Title Resident Optometrist
Job Type Part-time
Salary £38,682 to £46,580 a year p.a. pro rata
Location Cambridge, UK
Deadline The closing date is 29 September 2025
Roles & Responsibilities
- Provide hospital optometry clinical services using sound theoretical and practical knowledge. Optometry Clinical Services should include low vision, specialist refraction and paediatric refraction services.
- Carry out comprehensive low vision assessments, adapting refraction technique for patients with reduced vision.
- Prescribe appropriate optical and non-optical aids to enhance vision and provide advice and referral according to individual needs.
- Work with the Eye Clinic Liaison Officer to ensure adequate support mechanisms are in place for visually impaired patients and patients are registered as sight impaired where appropriate.
- Carry out accurate refractions, adapting refraction technique for children of different ages and abilities. Form individualised refractive management plans in conjunction with orthoptic and medical colleagues.
- Perform precise clinical techniques such as pachymetry, contact tonometry, slip-lamp examination, visual fields and imaging tests. Collect and present this information in a concise manner for analysis by a Senior Clinician.
- Work closely with Consultant Ophthalmologists to provide specialist care and in close association with all Optometrists, Medical, Orthoptic, Nursing and Administrative staff to ensure a high standard care for all patients.
- Work in close association with Medical, Orthoptic, Nursing and Administrative staff to ensure a high standard care for all patients.
- Work autonomously where appropriate. Understand and work within the limit of own ability, recognising clinical situations beyond capability or experience.
- Ensure effective lines of communication within the multidisciplinary team including GPs and Community Optometrists to achieve an optimal level of service for all.
- Maintain prolonged, intense concentration whilst using specialised ophthalmic diagnostic equipment.
- Communicate complex clinical information to patients, including to those with impaired comprehension and learning difficulties. Manage patients who, due to their distressed state, age or learning difficulty may act in an unpredictable way.
Eligibility Requirements
Qualifications
Essential
- -B.Sc. (Hons) Optometry degree
- -College of Optometrists’ Scheme for Registration complete
- -General Optical Council registration
Desirable
- -Member of College of Optometrists
Experience
Essential
- -Experience managing a range of ophthalmic conditions
- -Experience working with adult and paediatric patients
- -Experience working as part of a team
Knowledge
Essential
- -Knowledge of visual assessment and investigation techniques used in hospital services
- -Knowledge of the different approaches to refractive management in children
- -Knowledge of essential aspects of low vision assessment and rehabilitation
- -Broad understanding of the management of conditions such as macular disease, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy within hospital services
Desirable
- -Knowledge of Ocular Therapeutics
- -Working knowledge of Community Optometry Pathways
Skills
Essential
- -Ability to convey bad news in a sensitive manner
- -Ability to work independently and use initiative where appropriate, recognising limitations of ability
- -Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- -Accurate written communication skills for writing clinical case notes and report-Good attention to detail
- -Fine motor skills, e.g. handling of diagnostic lenses
- -IT skills; use of Word, Excel
- -Ability to adapt to using electronic patient records
Desirable
- -Ability to communicate complex clinical information in a range of situations including where there may be barriers to understanding
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:- applied for a Graduate visa- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment.
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