Ophthalmic Specialist Nurse(UK Visa Sponsorship)
Job Description
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Ophthalmic Nurse Specialist to join our Ophthalmology team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a senior clinical role for a nurse who is confident working autonomously while remaining closely connected to a multidisciplinary team. You will deliver expert, patient-centred ophthalmic care across a range of clinical settings, supporting people with both routine and complex eye conditions.
You’ll play a vital role in nurse-led services, clinical leadership, and service development—helping us continue to provide safe, equitable, and evidence-based care while enhancing patient experience.
Your Clinical Contribution
As an Ophthalmic Nurse Specialist, you will:
Deliver advanced ophthalmic assessment, treatment, and ongoing management for patients with eye conditions
Lead and deliver nurse-led clinics, including:
- Intravitreal injection clinics
- Ophthalmic triage clinics
- Emergency eye clinics
- Independently manage a defined caseload, prioritising urgent presentations and identifying clinical abnormalities
- Prescribe within your scope of practice and escalate care appropriately when required
- Work collaboratively with Ophthalmology Consultants, nursing colleagues, and wider MDTs
- Ensure care aligns with national guidance and best practice
Leadership, Education & Service Development
Alongside your clinical responsibilities, you will:
- Act as a clinical leader and role model, promoting high standards of care
- Support colleagues through education, supervision, and clinical training
- Contribute to audit, research, policy implementation, and quality improvement
- Promote strong clinical governance, patient safety, and continuous improvement
- Champion excellent patient education and experience, ensuring care is inclusive and responsive to individual needs
About Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust, delivering acute and community services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, as well as parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
Our values are simple and deeply held:
- Patients come first
- Kindness, respect, and compassion matter
- We look after one another as colleagues
- We are proud to be a clinically-led organisation, recognised nationally for both care quality and staff experience:
- Rated ‘Outstanding’ for Care by the Care Quality Commission
- King’s Mill Hospital is the only NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands rated ‘Outstanding’
- Voted Best Acute Trust to Work For in the East Midlands for seven consecutive years in the NHS Staff Survey
Visa Sponsorship & Right to Work
Please note that not all roles are eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Eligibility is determined in line with national guidance and the Shortage Occupation List
Changes to Home Office immigration rules introduced on 9 April mean that applicants seeking to switch visa categories may be eligible, even where roles appear on the shortage list
Why Join Us?
- A senior, autonomous role with real clinical influence
- Opportunity to lead nurse-led ophthalmology services
- Strong MDT support and consultant collaboration
- A Trust that values kindness, leadership, and staff wellbeing
- The chance to shape and improve ophthalmic services for the future
