Specialist Orthoptist - #146774
NHS Scotland
Date: 1 day ago
City: Dunfermline
Contract type: Full time
We have a temporary opportunity for a Specialist Orthoptist to join our team in NHS Fife to provide cover for maternity leave. The Orthoptic service delivers wide ranging clinical assessments and treatments to paediatric and adult patients, including those attending Ophthalmology clinics.
A service is also provided to other medical teams such as Maxillofacial, Stroke and Neurology. We also screen as part of the ‘See4school’ Orthoptic led screening service. The department operates across two hospital sites as well as providing a community orthoptic service and a certain amount of travel across sites should be expected. Opportunities to be involved in teaching of hospital staff/pre reg. Optometrists are available and research/audit is actively encouraged with a focus on providing evidence based care supported through regular in-service training within the department.
You will be supported with mentoring and perceptorship as required. You must hold a diploma/degree in Orthoptics and be registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Fife is situated within a commutable distance from Edinburgh and the central belt of Scotland.
For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Jennifer Skillen, Head Orthoptist on 01383 623623 ext 28400 or via email on [email protected].
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application. NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Fife welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
A service is also provided to other medical teams such as Maxillofacial, Stroke and Neurology. We also screen as part of the ‘See4school’ Orthoptic led screening service. The department operates across two hospital sites as well as providing a community orthoptic service and a certain amount of travel across sites should be expected. Opportunities to be involved in teaching of hospital staff/pre reg. Optometrists are available and research/audit is actively encouraged with a focus on providing evidence based care supported through regular in-service training within the department.
You will be supported with mentoring and perceptorship as required. You must hold a diploma/degree in Orthoptics and be registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Fife is situated within a commutable distance from Edinburgh and the central belt of Scotland.
For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Jennifer Skillen, Head Orthoptist on 01383 623623 ext 28400 or via email on [email protected].
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application. NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Fife welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
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