Pre Registration Optometrists
The National Health Service is the largest employer in Europe. Pre registration posts are usually Band 4, annual salary of £18,152 (April 2010 scale) with 27 days paid leave plus 8 days paid Bank Holidays per year. The wide ranging training gained in hospital eye departments provides provides extensive experience during the pre registration period.
NHS job applications are usually made on-line via the following websites:
England & Wales: www.jobs.nhs.uk
Scotland: www.jobs.scot.nhs.uk
Northern Ireland: www.hpssjobs.com
You can also register on some of these sites to recieve automatic e-mail alerts when appropriate jobs become available.
Some hospitals recruit pre registration optometrists through a central scheme operated by JCL Optics. For further details visit: www.jcloptics.co.uk
The following hospitals are known to have employed pre registration optometrists in the past:
- Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
- Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
- Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre
- Cheltenham General Hospital
- Conquest Hospital, East Sussex
- Coventry & Warwickshire Hospital
- Eastborne District Hospital
- Essex County Hospital
- Falkirk & District Royal Infirmary
- Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow
- Ipswich Hospital
- Kent County Ophthalmic & Aural Hospital
- Leeds General Infirmary
- Leicester Royal Infirmary
- Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
- Mayday University Hospital, Croyden
- Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
- Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
- North Devon District Hospital
- Oxford Eye Hospital
- Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley
- Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital
- Royal Eye Hospital, Plymouth
- Royal Liverpool University Hospital
- Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
- Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- St. James University Hospital, Leeds
- Stirling Royal Infirmary
- Sunderland Eye Infirmary
- University Hospital, Nottingham
- Wirral Hospital