Advance Medical Retina Specialist

Esneft; Colchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking an Advanced Retina Specialist to join their Ophthalmology Department. The role involves delivering expert assessment and management of patients with retinal disease while working closely with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have significant experience in ophthalmology and possess advanced clinical skills. The Trust values clinical excellence and offers various staff benefits including training opportunities and a generous pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

Flexible working options

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Significant experience in an ophthalmology extended role.
• Ability to autonomously formulate management plans for patients.
• Critical understanding of own competence and professional scope.

Responsibilities

• Provide a range of extended specialist role services.
• Act as a specialist clinical expert in direct contact care.
• Diagnose and treat patients to ensure safe management.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment

Diagnostic reasoning

Patient management

Education

Significant experience in ophthalmology

Job description

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a passionate, forward-thinking Advance Retina Specialist to join our dynamic and expanding Ophthalmology Department.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work at one of the largest and most innovative NHS Trusts in the region, delivering high-quality care to a diverse patient population.

At ESNEFT, we pride ourselves on clinical excellence, collaborative teamwork, and continuous development. You’ll be part of a supportive, multidisciplinary service that encourages autonomy, advanced practice, and expanded clinical skills.

As an Advanced Retina Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in delivering expert assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients with retinal disease. Working closely with consultants and the wider ophthalmic team, you will contribute to high-impact clinical pathways and help shape modern retina services.

Responsibilities

• To provide a range of extended specialist role services.
• Working as an autonomous registered practitioner with significant experience in an ophthalmology extended role providing high quality, individualised clinical management for patients with retinal diseases using advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to determine and initiate changes to treatment as necessary.
• Act as a specialist clinical expert in direct contact care, able to make high level skills decisions, informed by advanced history taking, diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills. To be responsible and accountable for own decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice.
• To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients resulting in the safe management of patients, autonomously formulate appropriate management plans for patients.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of own level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lerio Dayaon Job title: Lead Sister Email address: [e-mail]