We’ve published a new guide to local recruitment pathways for orthoptic clinical assistants (OCAs), as part of our ongoing work to raise awareness of OCA careers.
Our new guide is all about recruitment into OCA jobs, specifically the various ways in which orthoptic services, working with others, can increase the number of local people working in them, including from groups that might be currently under-represented in the workforce.
This guide is one of a series of resources BIOS has produced that focuses on the OCA workforce. Together, they aim to do a number of things – raise awareness of OCA careers, ensure OCAs have rewarding jobs that enable them to progress if they wish too, (including to become registered orthoptists), and help ensure OCA contribution to eye health is fully realised in services by ensuring OCA roles and responsibilities and training needs are clearly defined at all levels of practice.
The full resources are available on BIOS’s website’s Orthoptic Support Workforce Hub.
Local recruitment brings many benefits with it, such as creating sustainable workforce supply routes and a workforce that better reflects the community it serves. Local recruitment is also a way to work more closely with other Allied Health Professions and external partners, such as colleges and Job Centre Plus.
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