Bank B7 Optometrist | The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This is a great time to join The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Highly Specialist Orthoptist.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people across the Borough of Hillingdon, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare - our mission is to provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, improving the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.

We are seeking an experienced, highly motivated and proactive individual to work with the current team of 3 Orthoptists to work at Hillingdon and Mount Vernon Hospitals together with community clinics and the post holder will be expected to develop extended role in AMD clinics.

The successful applicant will work as part of the team with a mixed workload including orthoptic/optometry clinics, joint consultant paediatric and adult motility clinics, stroke assessments for in-patients and out-patients, acute referrals from GPs, Neurology, Maxillo-facial, Paediatrics, Stroke Service, Endocrinology and A &E.

An Orthoptic/ optometry led fast track clinic receives school nurse, optician, child development centre and health visitor referrals.

A comprehensive ophthalmology service is provided by 12 Ophthalmologists with general and speciality clinics including Paediatrics, Ocular-motility, Botulinum Toxin, AMD, Diabetic, Glaucoma, Medical Retinal, Oculoplastic and Corneal.


• To work as an autonomous practitioner to assess, diagnose and manage any patient referred to the Optometry Department. The Optometry Department is a highly specialised department that provides comprehensive, quality and specialised optometric assessment to patients of all ages, ranging from babies to the elderly, persons with varying degrees of communication skills and varying degrees of visual impairment.



§ The post-holder will be required to work as part of the multi-disciplinary team in sub-specialised glaucoma, paediatric Ophthalmology clinics and orthoptic / optometry led clinics together withone or more of sub-specialised cataract, medical retina, research clinics, undertaking “extended role” optometry work (dependent on experience).


• The post-holder is required to perform refraction, low vision aid assessment and medical contact lens assessment & fitting

§ To provide teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate levels for various disciplines within ophthalmology (ophthalmologists, medical students, ophthalmic nurses, orthoptists, optometrists, ophthalmic photographers and other health professionals).

This is a great time to join The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are currently in the process of redeveloping the hospital to provide a state-of-the-art hospital for the residents of Hillingdon, and beyond, which supports the very best in delivery of healthcare and will be fit for our future.

We are the only acute hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offer a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.
• To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner prioritising workload and legally and professionally responsible for all aspects of own work for the evaluation of visual acuity, visual function and visual behaviour of all patients.



§ To be responsible for planning, implementing and monitoring individual optometric treatment plans/care pathways for patients of all ages using advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice. These may vary from several months to several years. Treatment plans will need to be re-assessed and re-evaluate on return appointments.


• To undertake objective and/or subjective refraction and perform the necessary numeric calculations to provide an accurate glasses prescription for the patient.


• To accurately assess and compare spectacle prescriptions using automated and manual focimetry.


• Assessment of the fundus and media using direct ophthalmoscopy, indirect ophthalmoscopy, or high-powered lenses at a slit lamp. This may be to detect and diagnose any ophthalmic conditions in new patients or to monitor stability and detect change in patients under review. In both situations the optometrist will need to make onward referral to ophthalmology advising administrative staff of the urgency of the referral or discharging patients.


This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Apr 2026