Specialist Orthoptist: Sponsorship Available

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge)

Job summary

Are you a Specialist Orthoptist, or ready to make that move?

Want to be part of a service which provides treatment in both an acute and community setting?

Keen to work within a team where you can share your skills and experience?

Then please read on and then apply.

We are looking for an experienced orthoptist to join our team, we will consider applications from recently graduated Orthoptists . This is an opportunity to work alongside staff in our community-based team of 15 Orthoptists, Orthoptic Support Workers and an Orthoptic Apprentice working on a varied and challenging caseload across the Community and Hospital sites.

You will have:

A degree in Orthoptics or equivalent

HCPC registration

Membership of BIOS

Experience of all aspects of orthoptics in both acute or community is desirable

Ability to resolve both clinical and non-clinical queries

Communication skills to pass on your knowledge to the team

A desire to go beyond expectations

We offer:

Opportunities for flexible working.

We offer specialist clinical roles such as special needs assessment, stroke ward assessment, stroke outpatient clinics, Goldmann assessment, Vision Therapy and clinical teaching.

Acute clinic with Ophthalmologist (adults and paediatrics patients)

Great benefits and inhouse staff services

Working with a Trust rated outstanding by the CQC

Sound interesting? Then please read the full job description, apply, and we look forward to you joining us!

Main duties of the job

You will be based in the community at Liverpool Road Health Centre in Luton, or Kempston Health Centre, Bedford with a requirement to travel frequently to hospital and community clinics throughout Bedfordshire.

Our team covers community clinics across the county, including paediatric orthoptic and child development centre clinics.

We also provide orthoptic clinics at both Hospitals, the Luton and Dunstable Hospital and Moorfields at Bedford Hospital . At the Luton and Dunstable and Moorfields eye clinics our team provides orthoptic support for hospital paediatric and adult motility clinics with consultants in paediatric ophthalmology and strabismus.

The department participates in NIHR registered Moorfields research studies.

We also provide specialist in and out-patient Stroke services at the Luton and Dunstable hospital as part of the multidisciplinary stroke team.

Orthoptists wishing to become a clinical tutor or to study postgraduate orthoptic modules at Sheffield and Liverpool University including the medicine exemptions course will be supported. The orthoptic department is also committed to teaching undergraduate orthoptic students.

You will need to work in some of our clinics single-handed so the role is most suited to an experienced orthoptist. You must have a degree or diploma in orthoptics, be registered with the HCPC and be a member of the British and Irish Orthoptic Society.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential

  • Degree/Diploma in Orthoptics
  • HCPC registration
  • BIOS registration

Desirable

  • Clinical tutors course

Experience

Essential

  • Working Single handed in clinic dealing with complex situations of a clinical and non-clinical nature
  • Ability to teach and demostrate clinical orthoptics
  • Previous experience in all aspects of orthoptics (adults/paeds/Ad Mot/acute and comm)

Desirable

  • Knowledge of Visual Fields assessment and interpretation

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • S1/other electronic patient records
  • Good oral communication skills based on fluency in the English language
  • Evidence of a good standard of continued professional development.

Desirable

  • EHCP report writing

Safeguarding

Essential

  • Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 6 September 2026

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