Senior OrthoptistNHS

Job summary

We are delighted to offer an exciting 12-month fixed term opportunity from July 2026 (maternity leave cover) for a Highly Specialist Orthoptist to join our friendly and forward-thinking team as the Education & Neuro-Orthoptic Lead. This is a varied and rewarding senior role, ideal for an Orthoptist seeking to expand their leadership, teaching, and specialist clinical skills. You will lead on education, workforce development, and competency frameworks for the Orthoptic team, while also providing highly specialist neuro-ophthalmology expertise across adult services.

Alongside core orthoptic clinics, you will work within extended roles including adult orthoptics, neuro-ophthalmology, stroke pathways, and community eye services. You will collaborate closely with Ophthalmologists, Neurologists, Optometrists, AHPs, and wider MDT colleagues.

You will be:

• Leading education, training, and competency development for Orthoptists, students, and multidisciplinary colleagues
• Acting as the Neuro-Orthoptic Lead, providing advanced assessment and management of complex neuro-ophthalmic conditions * Delivering high-quality clinical care across hospital, community, special school, and stroke settings
• Supporting extended-role clinics including JI clinics, injection clinics, and stroke rehabilitation
• Contributing to service development, audit, research, and clinical governance
• Teaching medical undergraduates, junior doctors, and other healthcare professionals

Main duties of the job

Provide a high-quality orthoptic service as an autonomous practitioner, delivering preventative and therapeutic care in accordance with the professional standards of the British and Irish Orthoptic Society (BIOS).

Job description

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About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.