Lead Optometrist

Lead Optometrist

The closing date is 29 January 2026

We've got an exciting new opportunity for a Lead Optometrist to guide and inspire our teams across South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust (SWFT) and George Eliot Hospital (GEH). This role has been created to strengthen leadership and redesign services so we can keep delivering the very best care for our patients.

• Passionate about eye care and ready to lead from the front.
• Innovative and proactive
  , with a knack for solving problems and improving services.
• Supportive and approachable
  , helping our team feel valued and empowered.

We've got an exciting new opportunity for a Lead Optometrist to guide and inspire our teams across South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust (SWFT) and George Eliot Hospital (GEH). This role has been created to strengthen leadership and redesign services so we can keep delivering the very best care for our patients.

We're looking for someone who's:

• Passionate about eye care and ready to lead from the front.
• Innovative and proactive
  , with a knack for solving problems and improving services.
• Supportive and approachable
  , helping our team feel valued and empowered.

• Leading the Optometry department and shaping services for patients in South Warwickshire and Nuneaton.
• Using your clinical expertise to provide specialist care for adults and children.
• Working closely with colleagues and partners to plan and develop services for the future.
• Representing Optometry and Ophthalmology at key meetings across the Trust and the wider Coventry & Warwickshire community.

This is a chance to make a real impact–on patients, on services, and on the people you work with. If you're ready to take the next step and help us build something great, we'd love to hear from you!

To take clinical responsibility for, and provide highly specialised care to, a caseload of patients attending ophthalmology clinics with sight threatening acute and chronic conditions using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based and individualised to the patient's needs.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'.

Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

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The post holder will display a high profile, be accessible and responsive as a clinical leader with management responsibility for the Optometrists and optometry service delivery in George Eliot, Warwick and Stratford Hospitals.

Displaying excellent leadership skills, the post holder will ensure that the department delivers high-quality patient experience, care and outcomes.

The post holder will make informed decisions within their own specialty and scope of professional practice, involving the patients and public to ensure agreed standards, targets and objectives.

To work in collaboration with the leads within Ophthalmology, operational teams and medical and nursing leads, ensuring the optometry service aligns with the ophthalmology strategy.