Advanced Specialist Orthoptist - Stroke Co-Lead

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Advanced Specialist Orthoptist, Stroke Co-Lead at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (ASPH). This is an exciting role to increase Orthoptic input to the stroke service at ASPH. The post-holder will be partly ward-based, working in the stroke multi-disciplinary team (MDT), and partly based in Ophthalmology outpatients undertaking assessments of stroke patients. The Trust's main two sites are Ashford Hospital and St. Peter's Hospital and we also provide services at Woking Community Hospital. Day case surgery takes place in dedicated theatres at Ashford Hospital with Paediatric and other selected surgeries at St Peter's Hospital. We are a forward-looking department with a team of 19 medical staff including 1 with an interest in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Ocular Motility and 1 Paediatric Optometrist.,

• To provide high quality Orthoptic care as an autonomous advanced practitioner. To assess, diagnose and manage all categories of patients referred to the Orthoptic service provided by ASPH.
• To support the Head Orthoptist to maintain effective and efficient Orthoptic services at ASPH NHS Foundation Trust including the provision of the secondary visual screening service.
• The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary Orthoptic and Ophthalmology team that provide a comprehensive and quality Orthoptic Service for the Trust.
• The post-holder will co-lead the Stroke and Brain Injury service and liaise with the Head Orthoptist and Consultant Ophthalmologist as required.
• They will participate in the educational activities ran by and ran for the Orthoptic Department. This includes the teaching of Orthoptic undergraduates, Medical undergraduates, Junior doctors and Pre-registration Optometrists.
• To deputise for the Head Orthoptist either single-handedly or in conjunction with other band 7 colleagues.
• To carry out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work.
  
  Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey. We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care. This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment. We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workforce. Our plans are ambitious - why not, come and be a part of our journey.