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    Healthcare Support Worker/ Ophthalmology Technician - London, United Kingdom - Barts Health NHS Trust

    Barts Health NHS Trust
    Barts Health NHS Trust London, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    Job overview

    SURGERY

    EYE TREATMENT CENTRE Whipps Cross Hospital Site

    Ophthalmic Technician Band 3:

    We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic, and hard-working person to work in our ophthalmology outpatient unit. You must be an excellent communicator as you will have everyday contact with multi-professional colleagues where results and positive achievements will be crucial. Exceptional personal and organisational qualities are key attributes in this role. The ability to supervise and coach staff will also be necessary, as will a focus to delivering the highest standards of care and service to our patients.

    For informal discussion contact Connette Pahed (Senior Sister) on ext 6929.

    Main duties of the job

  • To work as part of a multi disciplinary team to deliver a high standard of evidence based practice as directed by nursing staff and Medical Staff.
  • To ensure high quality patient care is delivered and take appropriate steps if this is not the case
  • To assist in the maintenance of a health and hygienic environment.
  • To contribute in the assessment of patients attending the Ophthalmic department at Whipps Cross Hospital
  • To work without direct supervision to provide a high quality technical service which includes diagnostic testing and imaging for both adults and children across a variety of sub-specialities under direct supervision of mangers, senior sister, senior nurses and clinical leads.
  • To have the ability to work autonomously as well as working closely with members of the multi-disciplinary teams
  • To work within standard operating procedures, departmental guidelines and protocols, usually without direct supervision
  • To work within a variety of ophthalmology clinics to meet the needs of the service
  • To provide a variety of diagnostic tests following training and achievement of competences. The tests required will include assessment of visual acuity, ocular Coherence Tomography (OCT) both posterior and anterior, Pentacam, Auto-refraction, Digital Retinal Imaging, HRT and Visual Field Assessment, Biometry, ECG, Cannulation/Venepunture and focimetry.

    • Working for our organisation

    Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

    The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

    Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

    We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

    Detailed job description and main responsibilities

    The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

    Person specification

    Experience

    Essential criteria

  • Work in a healthcare setting
  • Experience of customer care

    • Skills

    Essential criteria

  • Awareness of nature of acute patient care
  • Effective communication skills, Verbal and written
  • Ability to prioritise own workload
  • Understand principles of stock and resource management
  • Team working
  • Undertake essential / mandatory workplace training and development

    • Knowledge

    Essential criteria

  • Numeracy & literacy

    • Qualifications

    Essential criteria

  • Basic education to GCSE standard or equivalent

    • Desirable criteria

  • Basic education to GCSE standard or equivalent
  • Has obtained the Care Certificate Programme

    • Others

    Essential criteria

  • Excellent communication both written and oral
  • Excellent influential and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent communication and engagement skills
  • Flexibility around anti-social working patterns
  • Ability to work flexibly to respond to changing service priorities.
  • Sufficient to perform the duties of the post with any aids and adaptations
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