Applications Invited for 12-Month Fixed-Term Cornea Fellowship

Applications are invited for a 12-month fixed-term Cornea Fellowship at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. This post holder will be at MTW, which offers a tertiary Cornea service with particular emphasis on complex Corneal cases. Operations carried out include corneal grafts, complex cataracts and anterior segment surgeries, and ocular surface diseases and surgeries.

About the Role

The Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is responsible for the provision of ophthalmology services for the people of Mid and West Kent, covering approximately a 1 million population. The large population we serve entails a wide and interesting selection of cases. General and sub-speciality ophthalmology services are provided at the Eye, Ear, and Mouth Unit (EEMU), a modern, purpose-built facility attached to Maidstone Hospital, with outpatient facilities provided at Tunbridge Wells, Medway Maritime and Sevenoaks Hospitals in a "hub and spoke" model.

Key Responsibilities

• To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients you personally care for.
• To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments to ensure a high standard of patient care.
• To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the speciality, to provide high-quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.
• To participate fully in the clinical governance activities of the speciality.
• To attend clinical governance half-days as in the job plan.
• To participate actively in departmental activities, which may be included in the work you undertake.
• To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Council’s published guide “Good Medical Practice”, including the Duties of a Doctor.
• To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.
• To be an active member of the risk management processes of the clinical team and care group.
• To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.