Senior Orthoptist (XR06)
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- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This is a permanent, full-time Senior Orthoptist position at Band 6 within Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The role involves managing a specialist orthoptic workload in paediatric and adult Ophthalmology clinics, including early evening and Saturday clinics. You will conduct comprehensive orthoptic assessments for various conditions and patient types, and provide clinical teaching for students and trainees. The post requires post-graduate clinical experience and a willingness to learn perimetry.
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Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Senior Orthoptist (XR06)
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has an opportunity for a permanent full-time experienced orthoptist at Band 6. You will be responsible for a specialist orthoptic workload centred around our paediatric and adult Ophthalmology clinics. This post is open to orthoptists with post graduate clinical experience only. Your job plan will include early evening clinics and one Saturday a month
You will undertake comprehensive orthoptic assessment of children and adults with a wide range of abilities / disorders e.g. infantile cataract, nystagmus, learning disabilities, autism and stroke in standalone Orthoptic clinics and in joint clinics with optometrists and ophthalmologists.
You will provide clinical teaching for undergraduate orthoptic placements, trainee ophthalmologists, pre reg optometrists and student nurses.
You will be prepared to learn and undertake perimetry including Octopus Goldmann Visual Fields.
Main duties of the job
You will provide routine and specialist orthoptic and visual field services as an autonomous practitioner within the hospital department and any other sites served by the department. This encompasses investigation and management including direct implementation of treatment over a range of conditions in many patient types/ages.
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