Job Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our patient focussed experienced Optometry team . This is a secondary care post that will suit those who have carried out a pre-registration post in a hospital or are keen to develop their clinical skills in a fully supportive environment. The post holder will work alongside experienced clinical colleagues in the delivery of core optometry services.

Main Duties of the Job
You will work within our multi- disciplinary team and provide core optometry services including adult and paediatric ( cycloplegic) refraction and fundoscopy , medical contact lenses and low vision services . Full training will be given. It is anticipated that as part of your career progression you will want to work towards extended roles such as Glaucoma, medical retina, Eye Emergency, Visual Electrophysiology or Intravitreal injections. Funding for college higher qualifications/ACP qualifications is available so that you can develop skills towards a varied weekly timetable

About Us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel

Job Responsibilities
You will have access to senior clinicians to guide you and consolidate your skills in optometry. We are part of the regional teaching for ophthalmology with easy access to training alongside our ophthalmology colleagues.

• Routine and complex refraction adult and Children.
• Delivering Optometrist/Orthoptics led paediatric cycloplegic refraction clinics at Oxford Eye Hospital site and from other peripheral outreach clinics in the county.
• Work within the multidisciplinary clinics alongside Ophthalmologists in delivery of non-cycloplegic and cycloplegic paediatric refractions.
• Deliver low vision clinics -assessment of needs, loan of optical aids and signposting to support services.
• Medical contact lens fitting and aftercare management of keratoconus, aphakia, graft and bandage lens fitting. Fitting of scleral lenses full and mini scleral lens designs.
• Monitoring of keratoconus

Details
Date posted: 07 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year (Per Annum/Pro Rata)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 321-NOTSS-8076741-B6
Job locations: JR, headley way, oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom

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.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.