Senior Orthoptist

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 24 March 2026

Join our dynamic Orthoptic team as a Senior Orthoptist and play a key role in delivering high‑quality, patient‑centred care across our hospitals. Working as an autonomous practitioner within the Surgical Division, you will assess, diagnose and manage patients with ocular motility disorders, amblyopia and complex visual conditions, using specialist skills and evidence‑based practice to develop effective treatment plans.

You will work across a variety of specialist clinics including paediatric ophthalmology, emergency orthoptics, stroke, low vision and biometry, supporting patients of all ages with diverse clinical needs. The role involves close collaboration with ophthalmologists, optometrists and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure the best outcomes for patients.

As a senior clinician, you will also act as a source of expertise for patients, carers and healthcare professionals, providing clear communication and compassionate support throughout the patient journey. Opportunities to contribute to clinical teaching, audit, research and service development form an important part of the role, helping to enhance and evolve orthoptic services across the Trust.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced orthoptist seeking professional autonomy, clinical variety and the chance to make a meaningful impact within a supportive and progressive NHS team.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award‑winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other.

We believe that we are truly a clinically‑led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS‑run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

• Knowledge of Core Orthoptics
• To demonstrate an interest in ophthalmology and neurology
• Good organisational and planning skills and well‑developed interpersonal and communication skills
• IT skills including knowledge of hospital systems

• To possess Bachelor of Science in Orthoptics BSc(Orth), Bmed Sci (Orth) and/or Diploma from the British Orthoptic Council (DBO) or equivalent qualification
• To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
• Has attended the BIOS Clinical tutors Course of equivalent teaching certificate

• Willing to keep up to date with current literature and keep evidence of CPD activities
• Low Vision Therapy course
• Biometry training

• Experience in all aspects of clinical orthoptics
• Experience undertaking and presenting clinical audit
• Experience of delivering student supervision and clinical education to Orthoptic undergraduates
• Experience working with stroke patients

• Provide Orthoptic services at King’s Mill Hospital
• Car driver/ability to travel to Newark Hospital

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata per annum