The Ophthalmology department is looking to appoint a Specialty Doctor which is initially for a period of 12 months with a view to the job becoming permanent. The post will support the Consultant activity in the department.

The post holders will be expected to contribute to the service and flexibility is required to meet the department’s service commitment to delivery of efficient, safe and high quality patient care.

Ophthalmology is a dynamic and forward thinking department based at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. It is staffed by 11 substantive Consultants, 1 part-time and 4 full time Speciality Doctors, 4 doctors in training (Ophthalmic specialist trainees year 1 to 4) as part of the West Midlands Higher Specialist training rotation, 2 international fellows as part of the MTI (medical training initiative) scheme and specialist optometrists who have a clinical role in managing patients in the diabetic, medical retina, glaucoma and emergency eye clinics. Consultants provide a range of dedicated sub speciality services in paediatric Ophthalmology, strabismus and ocular Motility, medical Retina, vitreo-retinal surgery, oculoplastics, cornea and anterior segment and glaucoma. 

Speciality doctors are encouraged to develop sub-speciality interests and the current speciality doctors have sub speciality interests in diabetic eye disease and vitreo-retinal surgery.

The ophthalmology service is supported by an Orthoptic department, Optometrists who run refraction, contact lens and low visual aid clinics, eye clinic liaison officers, ophthalmic technician, medical photographers as well as clinical nurse practitioners in diabetic eye disease, macular degeneration, glaucoma, paediatric ophthalmology and cornea and oculoplastics.