Diabetic Eye Screening Programme Screener/grader - London, United Kingdom - North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To assist the Screening Manager, other retinal screeners, senior graders and clinicians to provide a retinal screening service for patients with diabetes, and to ensure that the diabetic populations of NHS North Central London (NCL) are offered, and receive, high quality systematic screening, grading, referral and treatment for sight threatening eye disease.

To support the Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (DESP) to deliver a first class service and build ever stronger partnerships with the healthcare community.

Patients will range from those with learning difficulties and dementia to those who are highly informed of their medical condition, from young persons in their early teens to patients in late old age, from those who are highly articulate to those who have little ability to conduct a conversation in English.

All patients must be dealt with in the same professional manner.

As this programme is multi-centered, the post holder will support the programme in various settings, therefore travel will be involved.

Grading takes place at the North Middlesex site. The post holder will also be expected to work at out of hours clinics (evenings and Saturdays).

This is a Band 4/5 position.

Moving up to a band five is dependent on completion of the Level 3 Health Screening Diploma (Diabetic Eye) and experience.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate his/her previous experience of working within a busy diabetic Eye screening centre, including being able to use a digital retinal capture station and primary disease grading in accordance with National Screening Committee QA standards.

Due to the demands of the service it will be necessary to cover clinical duties across different hospital and GP practice based sites within the programme, and so there will be a need to travel between various locations during the working week and on Saturdays, sometimes carrying equipment.

However, we are particularly looking for someone to work at our clinics in Barnet, Camden & Islington. The programme also uses a Mobile Screening Unit for screening.

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond.

Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia.

In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing.

We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life.

This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19.

The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families.

To provide diabetic eye screening on completion of induction, training and competency accreditation in accordance with national guidelines.

This includes:

Taking and recording diabetic and eye related medical history.
Assessing and recording patient's visual acuity
To Perform fundus photography using a digital imaging system and triage images in an appropriate manner
To hold the C&G or HSD Level 3 Qualification in Diabetic Eye Screening/ Grading or to work towards its completion.
To undertake primary grading of images once necessary number of satisfactory supervised grades have been completed and specialist Units of Level 3 Health Screening Diploma (Diabetic Eye) has been achieved.
To undertake secondary grading of images once approved by the Screening Manager and the Clinical Lead, to ensure that the agreed grading targets are met. These qualitative and quantitative targets will be agreed by the Screening Manager and the Clinical Lead.