Clinical Fellow, Aston University, Birmingham

The School of Optometry within Aston University’s College of Health and Life Sciences, is dedicated to providing a relevant, challenging and supportive learning environment that integrates scientific, clinical and professional aspects to enable our students to become skilled healthcare professionals. Benefitting from over 90 years of innovation, our portfolio of courses range from undergraduate, to masters taught and doctoral level research. In addition, we offer a wide range of optometry continuing professional development options, designed to complement existing skills and develop new knowledge. 

Learning at Aston is informed by decades of experience in conducting internationally leading ophthalmic research, ensuring our students have access to the latest thinking and trends in optometry and vision science. All our programmes are informed by professional practice. Led by an inter-disciplinary teaching team of optometrists, dispensing opticians, ophthalmologists, and vision scientists. Reflecting this highly practical ethos, students on our undergraduate programmes benefit from substantial hands-on experience in the onsite Aston Eye Clinic, one of the largest at any UK university, with approximately 8,000 patient episodes completed every year.

Aston University’s GOC-accredited Master of Optometry (MOptom) programme offers patient-facing clinical experience integrated throughout all stages of the course. In their final year (Stage 4), students undertake a 44-week Clinical Learning in Practice placement, with one day per week dedicated to academic study. 

We are seeking two part-time (0.5 FTE) Clinical Fellows to support this important phase of our students' development. This role will focus on remote tutoring, support, and assessment of Stage 4 students, helping them meet the GOC Outcomes for Registration while fostering a professional, inquisitive, and evidence-based approach to optometric practice.