Specialists

Our highly skilled eye specialists have extensive training and valuable experience in both the dedicated field of eye care and their specific sub-specialities. All ophthalmologists at Southern Eye Specialists are medical graduates who have a ‘Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists’. They have also had overseas fellowships in a wide variety of disciplines, including glaucoma, vitreo-retinal surgery, medical retina including diabetic eye care, strabismus, neuro-ophthalmology and oculoplastic surgery.

Staff

The exceptional team of registered nurses and support staff at Southern Eye Specialists are hugely important to the care our patients receive. Our nursing staff all have specific eyecare training and are highly experienced in assisting with a wide range of procedures. This work is backed by an administrative and support team that are friendly, efficient and always willing to go the extra mile for our patients.

The most important thing is that patients are safe in our care, we are safe in our work, and everyone feels safe to speak up if standards aren’t met.
At an individual and group level everyone here takes responsibility for patient care and staff wellbeing. Every team member is accountable for ensuring a safe workplace. So, if something’s not right, we speak up.

Everyone must be valued and supported. We look up to each other – and we look out for each other. United as a team in our work, we share empathy and compassion, loyalty and trust. So too do we always recognise and respect difference. It can be difficult to understand a perspective that’s not your own. But we are stronger due to this diversity. We thrive together.

We value a sense of collaboration, innovation and enthusiasm within our people. It starts with having pride in your work, in thinking positively, in being open to challenges. It continues with the amicable sharing of ideas and effective feedback. It endures thanks to a positive one-for-all, all-for-one mindset. Someone needs help? Something needs doing? Roll up the sleeves and get stuck in.

We are ambitious in improving the quality of our care and the expertise of our people. By embracing lifelong learning we will bolster and grow our knowledge base. By leaning into change and continuously looking to make incremental improvement we will encourage fresh ideas and innovative approaches to patient care. In both small steps and bold leaps we will learn more and travel further.

Southern Eye Specialists was founded by Dr Ken Tarr and Dr Jim Borthwick in 1992. Their early days were spent in small offices, with the only staff being two secretaries. However, the move to Hyatt Chambers saw the space increase and the practice grow.