Locum Consultant in Emergency Ophthalmology

Job overview

Whatever you’re looking for in your next career move, you will find it here as a Locum Consultant Ophthalmologist with a special interest in Emergency Ophthalmology at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

Join us as a Consultant Ophthalmologist at The Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, co-located on a bustling campus alongside Royal Manchester’s Children’s Hospital, St Marys Women’s Hospital and the Manchester Royal Infirmary. MREH is one of the largest specialist eye units within Europe and is an internationally recognised Centre of Excellence.

Our departments are award winning; the outcome of the latest CQC inspection of the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital resulted in an “outstanding” rating overall and in four of the five CQC domains : https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/R0A04 .

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As our service expands, we are presented with a great opportunity for a substantive consultant to join the team within Acute Ophthalmology, one the leading Ophthalmic emergency services in the UK. We’re searching for an enthusiastic individual to continue in this tradition and expand the service further with innovative leadership, ideas, audit and research projects. A successful candidate, particularly in the current environment of the pandemic, may have sessions on more than one site, so we are looking for a good degree of flexibility across our main Oxford Road Campus, two high street clinics and Altrincham and Trafford Hospitals. The post-holder will demonstrate high expertise in the diagnosis and management of patients with evidence of audit and research. What’s more, you’ll be encouraged to participate in regular MDTs to aid in the assessment and management of both general patients and cataract services.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.