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Managing a flexible optometry career

Optometrists Josie Evans, Henry Leonard and Edward Ovenden tell OT about the benefits of portfolio careers and what it takes to maintain work-life balance

Career development

02 Oct 13 min read

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A conversation about...

Managing a flexible optometry career

Closing the gap between the classroom and the clinic

Adapting your optometry business in a cost-of-living crisis

Mutual learning through IP mentorship

The emerging role of technology in early detection and patient care

Teaching myopia management to optometry students

Improving primary and secondary care relationships

The challenges and opportunities of leadership

Using IP to future-proof your optometry practice

Effective low vision services

Working as a mental health champion in practice

Myopia management funding

Setting up IP placements in Gloucestershire

Establishing an out of hours homeless service in Bristol

The value of MP practice visits and the need for locally commissioned MECS

Future gazing: what will optometry look like in five years’ time?

Promoting the Easy Eye Care Pathway to patients and practices

Peer learning across practice and Hakim HQ

How shared care relationships can revolutionise eye care

Reaching Deaf patients through British Sign Language

Negotiating on behalf of the optometry profession

What I have learned

"Becoming a mentor enriches your own life as well as that of your mentees"

“It’s a learning process for both of us”

Empowering LGBTQIA+ colleagues to bring their authentic selves to work

“The trial is all about trying to reduce the burden on the NHS”

“Having an opticians in-store makes our customers’ lives easier”

Making the move to domiciliary

Peer learning goes virtual: dinner, a comfy seat and “professional craic”

“Everybody was pulling in the same direction”