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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Orthoptist
Accepting applications until: 12-Oct-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 12-Oct-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- St. Thomas' Hospital
- Address
- Westminster Bridge Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £37,259 - £45,356 per annum inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Orthoptist
- Interview date
- 21/10/2025
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are pleased to advertise a full time Band 5 Permanent Orthoptic post. You are invited to join a team of enthusiastic and motivated Orthoptists, Optometrists, Ophthalmologists and Ophthalmic technicians at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospital trust. We would expect the applicant to do a wide range of adult and paediatric complex clinics.
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We believe this role is ideal for a newly qualified Orthoptist that is enthusiastic, willing to work hard and is a team player. The post holder will gain expertise in fast paced busy paediatric clinics involving complex strabismus and neurology. They will be assessing adult patients in the ocular motility clinic as well as specialist neuro clinics and A+E patients. The post holder will have a mentor and be well supported throughout their role. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop core orthoptic clinical practice.
Applicants must have a degree/diploma in Orthoptics and be registered with HCPC. The job would be subject to criminal records check, references and a health check.
For informal enquires please contact Liz Tomlin on [email protected]
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital Orthoptic Department serves a busy London Teaching hospital, Tertiary referral Centre and the Evelina Children’s Hospital. We support a Professor of Ophthalmology specialising in Ocular Motility, four Paediatric Consultants as well as a busy A&E department and all other sub specialists of ophthalmology. The department supports undergraduate placements for 8.5 months of the year.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide appropriate and accurate Orthoptic assessment for all patients referred to the department as in patients or outpatients, including patients with special needs.
- To assess patients preoperatively and post operatively
- To liaise with other professionals such as ECLO, ophthalmic techs, consultants, and work within a multi-disciplinary team
- To assist with clinical admin.
- To assess patients for adjustable sutures post operatively
- To liaise with Head or Dept Orthoptist regarding any problems regarding service delivery.
- To be able to perform appropriate perimetry automated and manual fields.
- To interpret the results from the Humphrey Visual field analyser and Goldmann Perimeter.
- To attend departmental meetings for the Ophthalmology and Orthoptic department as well as appropriate training events
- To attend and contribute to departments journal club
- To comply with departmental quality procedures, participating in quality management monitoring. This will include audits for hospital ophthalmology services.
- To observe and maintain professional standards at all times.
- To be involved with departmental teaching
- To be involved in clinical placements of work experience students, Orthoptic Students, Optometry Students, Medical Students, GPs, Health Visitors, CMOs and Ophthalmologists etc.
- To attend an appraisal or PDR at least annually
- Assist and provide internal cover for colleagues during periods of annual leave, sickness and vacancies cross-site.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on the UK Government website.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- To possess an Orthoptic degree or diploma
- To be registered with HCPC
Skills
Essential criteria
- To be able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- To be able to work under pressure in a busy environment
- To have ability to handle difficult situations calmly and effectively to deal with patients, tactfully, efficiently and with empathy,
- To be able to communicate effectively with patients with special needs e.g. stressed, aggressive, hard of hearing, anxious patients, children, children with special needs, syndromes, multi-system failure and elderly as required
- To demonstrate an interest in Ophthalmology and be willing to keep up to date with the latest paediatric Orthoptic literature to participate in departmental teaching
- To have understanding and ability to maintain patient confidentiality.
- The ability to develop good working relationships with hospital staff at all levels
Experience
Essential criteria
- Completion of orthoptic degree or diploma
Desirable criteria
- Experience in visual fields
- Paediatric/Adult/Specialist/complex Orthoptic clinics
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Liz Tomlin
- Job title
- Head Orthoptist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071884299
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