Head of Optometry/Consultant Optometrist
Closed for applications on: 22-Jun-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 22-Jun-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M13 9WL
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £83,571 - £96,376 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8d)
Specialty
- Main area
- Optometry
Job overview
The UK’s largest provincial ophthalmic provider is seeking to appoint a new Consultant Optometrist as Head of Optometry. Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (MREH) is a centre of excellence for ophthalmic care, teaching, and research. The Head of Optometry acts as a senior clinical lead, making a significant contribution internally within Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and MREH, and also externally, both regionally in Greater Manchester and nationally, demonstrating vision and innovation for eyecare services. The Head of Optometry offers MREH strategic leadership for all optometry services, while playing a significant role in our organisation’s responsibilities in transforming eyecare locally, regionally, and nationally, working collaboratively at the interface of all eyecare professions.
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Responsible for optometry and related staffing and services across MREH’s central and community sites, the Head of Optometry will work closely with MREH’s Medical Director, the Senior Leadership Team, with senior colleagues in Optometry and other professions, and cross-institutionally with our University of Manchester collaborators. The post holder will provide leadership with a clear patient focus, being accountable for the development and implementation of strategic plans aligned to MREH’s wider organisational priorities, while offering innovation for provision of clinical services, teaching and research in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders internally and externally.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 Electronic Patient Record system which 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 Green Plan which sets 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Head of Optometry at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital has a key role within, and externally to Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, providing professional and clinical leadership for optometry and optometrists, ocularists and dispensing opticians within the Trust, as well as to the wider eye health system locally, regionally and nationally.
- Accountable and responsible for the development of strategic plans for the Optometry Department which are aligned to the Trust strategy and ensure services are progressive, responsive to internal and external demand, are patient focused, safe, efficient and effective
- Provide professional leadership for the Optometry Services, Ocular Prosthetics, and Ophthalmic Dispensing, to the Trust and other external service users
- Accountable and responsible for clinical governance within the Optometry Department and wider optometry related services.
- Accountable and responsible as budget holder for optometry services for procurement and the delivery of income and expenditure targets in areas of responsibility
- Responsible for developing and implementing ‘models of care’ for optometry services that support delivery of ‘best care’ aligned with regional (GM) and national transformation and policy agendas and delivering against local and regional population needs
- Responsible for the Optometry Department supporting training and education programmes for MREH, the Trust, with and for external partners and stakeholders, and developing links with appropriate organisations promoting high quality education and training.
- Accountable for the initiation, development and implementation of Research and Development activity
- Accountable for the continuous improvement of all aspects of the Optometry Department and delivery of optometry and related services against agreed standards
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc (Hons) Degree in Optometry (or equivalent)
- Registration with the General Optical Council
- Post-graduate qualification in a clinical specialty at masters level or higher (eg College of Optometrists Higher Qualification at Diploma level)
- Postgraduate research qualification or equivalent experience in clinical research or service evaluation.
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate diploma in independent prescribing leading to specialist registration with the General Optical Council (eg DipTp(IP))
- Doctoral level qualification (eg Professional Doctorate or PhD)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Managing a range of staff groups including motivating high value team performance, workforce planning and managing staff using appropriate HR policies.
- Extensive post qualification clinical experience of which a significant part should be within hospital optometry.
- Experience of working across multi-organisational boundaries and in multi-professional and multidisciplinary settings.
- Experience of leading and managing services, including leading service improvement, change management, successful delivery of performance targets and managing budgets.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering cost and productivity savings.
- Experience of delivery of large scale projects.
- Experience of national clinical leadership roles.
- Experience of reporting at executive level meetings.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead a large professional team to work effectively in a complex and diverse operational environment and to deliver under pressure, at pace and against tight deadlines.
- Ability to communicate highly complex information to clinical and non-clinical audiences
- Capable of quickly resolving operational issues whilst performing clinical duties.
- Ability to communicate highly complex information to clinical and non-clinical audiences in a range of situations
- Ability to act independently and manage complex services autonomously and to influence others who act in autonomous management positions.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing non-pay and procurement
- Experience of identifying and delivering income generation opportunities.
- Experience of delivery of large scale projects.
- Experience of reporting at executive level meetings.
- Experience of leading capacity planning and modelling.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cecilia Fenerty
- Job title
- Professor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01612675501
- Additional information
Medical Director
Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Parkway 1
- Parkway Business Centre
- Recruitment Office 1st Floor
- Princess Road
- Manchester
- M14 7LU
- Telephone
- Resourcing Department: 0161 276 6198
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