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Job role: Business Support Administrator Salary: £26,197.50 per annum (Pro rata, part time 30hrs per week) Benefits include: 30 days holiday plus 4 bank holidays (pro rata), working flexibly policy, non-contributory healthcare benefits, season ticket loans and a company pension scheme. Office based flexible hybrid role between central office (Birmingham) and home-working. Closing date for applications: Friday 4th October at 12pm. The British and Irish Orthoptic Society is the professional organisation and Trade Union for Orthoptists in the UK, representing and supporting almost 1,700 members in a variety of employment settings. We are looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking individual to [...]

I am absolutely delighted to be accepted as the Southern Region Trustee for BIOS. I have been a member of BIOS for a number of years now and during this time I have served as a committee member and regular contributor to the BIOS Orthoptic Society Neuro Orthoptic Clinical Activity Group, the BIOS private patients’ group. I trained at Moorfields Eye Hospital and was appointed to my first job at St Thomas’ in 1992.This is where I have been ever since! I became the Head Orthoptist in 1994 and Eye Team Lead in 2010.St Thomas’ is known as a [...]

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The One World One Vision video course on strabismus and amblyopia. The course contains contributions from some of the finest strabismologists from around the world. One World One Vision is a non-profit organization of committed individuals dedicated to reducing vision loss resulting from ocular misalignment (strabismus). Its outreach is global with emphasis on developing countries whose affected citizens, many of whom are children, have little or no access to effective care. The course was developed by Dr. Burton Kushner, who acts as moderator. The lecturers have agreed to share with you their years of study on the evaluation and treatment [...]

In September 1984 four young school leavers from four corners of the UK arrived in Cheltenham to start their training at Cheltenham School of Orthoptics. That was the start of a strong friendship that has lasted 40 years. We bonded immediately in the nurses’ home, especially having to deal with one of us being taken to the police station for questioning on the first day! There was a strict uniform policy of white coats, nylon tights and low-heeled shoes, although we flouted it during a lecture once by wearing a variety of rainbow-coloured tights when the head of school, Miss [...]