Senior Clinical Fellow Oculoplastic surgery
Location
Maidstone, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/13/2025
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Description
Applications are invited for a 12-month fixed-term Oculoplastics Fellowship at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. This post offers broad exposure to the management of eyelid and lacrimal disorders, periocular tumours, and medical orbital disease, with joint lacrimal clinics and operating lists alongside ENT. The department is also developing a joint working with General Plastic Surgery and a facial skin cancer pathway in collaboration with ENT. The successful candidate will work with three experienced Oculoplastic Consultants across both main Trust sites, within a well-established and high-volume service. While orbital surgery is referred to tertiary centres, the fellow will gain experience in dedicated thyroid eye disease clinics run jointly with orthoptists. Applicants must demonstrate knowledge and operative skills in Oculoplastics equivalent to ST5 or above. This is a non-training post and is not recognised for Deanery-approved training. The post includes protected time for research, audit, and departmental teaching.
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 with the aim of ensuring 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 specialty. To attend clinical governance half-days as in the job plan.To participate actively in departmental audits 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.
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has one of the largest eye unit in the SE of England, offering a full range of sub-specialities and an emergency service. The Eye Ear and Mouth Unit (EEMU) is a major training and teaching centre for the Kent Surrey and Sussex Deanery with an outstanding reputation for expertise in ophthalmic care. EEMU is closely associated with the adjacent Postgraduate Centre with modern facilities and a strong R&D department both of which foster a unique mixture of teaching and research. The Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is responsible for the provision of ophthalmology services for the people of Mid and West Kent, covering over 1 million population. The large population served presents 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 also provided at Tunbridge Wells Hospital (TWH), Medway Maritime, Sittingbourne, Sevenoaks, and Edenbridge Hospitals on a “hub and spoke” model. There are 3 operating theatres at Maidstone and one at TWH.EEMU has a busy rapid access department (Eye Casualty), with optometric and orthoptic services and in-patient facilities. Staffing is provided by specialist nurses in the clinics, Eye Day Care, and the dedicated ophthalmic operating theatres.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarju Athwal Job title: Consultant Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01622 729000
Applicants are required to be registered with the General Medical Council and hold a Licence to Practice. CVs will not be accepted in the application for this post; it is essential that applicants complete the online application form in full. Informal enquiries should be directed to Mr Sarju Athwal by email at [email protected]. Dee Hart, General Manager for Ophthalmology, by e-mail at [email protected]
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 with the aim of ensuring 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 specialty. To attend clinical governance half-days as in the job plan.To participate actively in departmental audits 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.
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has one of the largest eye unit in the SE of England, offering a full range of sub-specialities and an emergency service. The Eye Ear and Mouth Unit (EEMU) is a major training and teaching centre for the Kent Surrey and Sussex Deanery with an outstanding reputation for expertise in ophthalmic care. EEMU is closely associated with the adjacent Postgraduate Centre with modern facilities and a strong R&D department both of which foster a unique mixture of teaching and research. The Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is responsible for the provision of ophthalmology services for the people of Mid and West Kent, covering over 1 million population. The large population served presents 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 also provided at Tunbridge Wells Hospital (TWH), Medway Maritime, Sittingbourne, Sevenoaks, and Edenbridge Hospitals on a “hub and spoke” model. There are 3 operating theatres at Maidstone and one at TWH.EEMU has a busy rapid access department (Eye Casualty), with optometric and orthoptic services and in-patient facilities. Staffing is provided by specialist nurses in the clinics, Eye Day Care, and the dedicated ophthalmic operating theatres.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarju Athwal Job title: Consultant Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01622 729000
Applicants are required to be registered with the General Medical Council and hold a Licence to Practice. CVs will not be accepted in the application for this post; it is essential that applicants complete the online application form in full. Informal enquiries should be directed to Mr Sarju Athwal by email at [email protected]. Dee Hart, General Manager for Ophthalmology, by e-mail at [email protected]
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