Locum Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist

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Locum Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist

The closing date is 03 August 2025

The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a Locum Consultant in Paediatric Ophthalmology. The appointment will be 5.25 PAs for a 6 month period on a fixed-term contract.

The Paediatric Ophthalmology service is run within West London Children's Healthcare. The department has 2 Consultants, 2.2 WTE orthoptists (of which 1.8 WTE are Paediatric Orthoptists), and 0.8 Optometrists who provide a refraction and contact lens service for both paediatric and adult patients. The service sits within the Acute and General Paediatrics and Surgery directorate, with Dr James Ross as Clinical Director and Ms Ghaida Al-Jaddir as Service Lead for Paediatric Specialist Surgery.

We work closely with the department of Adult Ophthalmology, which is part of the Planned Care Division. There are 5 Consultants, one specialty doctor and 1 Oculoplastics Fellow. The department is fully equipped with facilities for anterior and posterior segment laser, fluorescein and ICG angiography, Spectralis OCT, Zeiss Clarus fundus camera, minor ops and intraocular and extraocular surgery. The department has excellent multidisciplinary links with the HIV unit, the Craniofacial and Plastic Surgery Units and the Beta Cell unit for Diabetes and Endocrinology.

Main duties of the job

The locum consultant will be responsible for undertaking outpatient and surgical activity in Paediatric Ophthalmology in line with the draft job plan - please see our attached job description for more details

About us

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have over 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best preforming Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £30 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and responsibilities.

Person SpecificationTrust Values

• Putting patients first
• Responsive to, and supportive of, patients and staff
• Open, welcoming and honest
• Unfailingly kind, treating everyone with respect, compassion and dignity
• Determined to develop our skills and continuously improve the quality of care

Education and Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration MBBS or equivalent
• FRCOphth or equivalent
• On GMC Specialist Register in Ophthalmology via one of the following: a.Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) (The proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of the interview) b.Certificate of Eligibility for specialist Registration (CESR) CCT in Ophthalmology with special interest in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
• BSc, MD or other

Experience

• Subspecialist training in Paediatric Ophthalmology
• Wide range of experience including retinopathy of prematurity screening, paediatric ophthalmology and strabismus surgery
• Experience of teaching to meet the requirements of junior doctors and nurses
• Evidence of continuing medical education (existing consultants must demonstrate active participation in CPD)
• Specific area of interest within paediatric ophthalmology

Skills and Knowledge

• Solid understanding of the Clinical Governance agenda
• IT proficiency including, email, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Evidence of effective audit leading to change
• Evidence of significant contribution to the Clinical Governance Agenda particularly CNST preparation
• Advanced IT skills
• Coaching skills

Research

• Demonstrates an understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
• Experience of implementing evidenced based changes in practice
• Evidence of recent or ongoing research
• Evidence of experience in supervising juniors doing research
• A higher research degree
• Peer reviewed publications

Other competencies

• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Managing self effectively
• Ability to plan ahead whilst being innovative and flexible in their approach.
• Demonstrable evidence of being able and willing to understand the Trust values of respect, kindness, excellence and safety with behaviour that reinforces these values.

Teaching, Training, Management

• Experience of undergraduate teaching and post graduate training
• A good understanding of the role of clinical management
• Evidence of contribution in the development of new clinical servicesr Adult Education Training
• Medical Education or Adult Education Training
• Evidence of contribution in the development of new clinical services
• Management Training Course

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.

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