Diabetic Eye Screener

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Ensures that patients are treated with courtesy at all times; their individual needs are respected, maintain patient privacy and dignity.
2. Manages clinic preparation, ensuring all stock and equipment is available to use, prepares and tests equipment. To achieve this good time keeping essential.
3. Organises and, prioritises own workload Provides high quality patient care, appropriate to patient need. Is responsible for a group of patients with indirect supervision of line manager.
4. Is responsible for seeing patients in a timely fashion and ensures delays in the running of the clinic are communicated to the admin team and patients.
5. Carries responsibility for patients care within the clinic ensuring their safety and wellbeing such as responsibility for management of transport patients, following up safeguarding issues post clinic.
6. Takes appropriate history and information from patients, and explains the procedure of screening to them, gaining their consent to screening and recording this information. Answering any questions that are required to help the consent
7. Conducts an accurate visual acuity eye test and full pupil dilation by instillation of dilating eye drops, working to the appropriate local and national protocols.
8. Captures the appropriate images of the patients Obtaining best quality imaging possible.
9. Takes a full history for patients with a reduced visual acuity, including last optometrist visit, past medical history to ensure best outcome for the patient.
10. Records notes which are necessary to assist in the success for the follow up visits, such as poor to dilate, wheelchair users, any mental or physical impairment which may require additional prior knowledge by the screener.
11. Uses the time with the patients to increase their understanding and knowledge of diabetes and how it can affect the eyes, as appropriate.
12. Makes a decision on the priority of images for grader Records these results.

1. Responsible for informing admin staff and line manager of issues ongoing during clinics
2. Liaises with IT helpdesk, software company and camera engineers as appropriate in the event of technical issues and records the outcomes and informs the Line Manager
3. Maintains confidentiality at all times in line with the Data Protection Act and Trust Information Governance guidance and policy
4. Provides and receives complex or sensitive information, relating to patient care, recognising barriers to understanding. Uses interpersonal skills to communicate condition related information clearly and concisely with colleagues, patients, carers and relatives, providing empathy and reassurance
5. Reports all concerns, accidents and incidents relating to self, patients, staff or visitors in accordance with the Trust incident reporting system (Datix)
6. Participates effectively in the programme and team teaching sessions the rest of the DESP team
7. Communicate effectively using Trust Information Technology systems (i.e.: Email, intranet, clinic list information, data collection systems)
8. Communicate with other healthcare professionals as necessary and ensures appropriate safeguarding of patients/staff
9. Works closely with staff in the department and also with staff from the Diabetes Unit and the Ophthalmology department attending feedback and training meetings as necessary
10. Responds appropriately to all telephone and personal enquiries in a sensitive and helpful manner

1. Adheres to Trust uniform
2. Works effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, recognising the contribution of all team members in meeting patients needs.
3. Collects data for audits and reports and input on electronic patient record systems/data collection systems.
4. In collaboration with the line manager, identify and implement changes within the role to support development and improvement.
5. Recognises own level of competence to ensure safe
6. Uses supplies and equipment effectively and economically with an awareness of budgetary control. Maintains stock levels in clinics and asks administrator to order supplies when necessary.
7. Acts as a role model by upholding and implementing good practice in the workplace, ensuring the highest standards of care are delivered.
8. To undertake a link role, eg. fire trainer/warden, moving and handling, infection control, enhancing communication and collaborative working by attending meetings and keeping colleagues up-to-date (through face-to-face and written/electronic briefing).

1. Responsible for ensuring synchronisation of the data occurs at each
2. Responsible for ensuring the clinic admin work is completed. All clinics are accounted for, and that each clinic has an allocated screener. The individual workloads are adequately distributed amongst the To raise any issues regarding clinic admin to line manager.
3. To provide failsafe admin role to ensure the patients are accounted for at the close of clinic and those who did not attend are followed up
4. Ensures in clinic that each patients status is up to date and they are in the correct pathway for follow up
5. Reports any changes to patient status or follow up to admin / line manager
6. Provides admin support to the admin team as requested by line manager

1. Participates in the local induction programme for new
2. Undertake and complete the Level 3 Health Screening
3. To attend regional and national meetings as
4. Undertakes on-line EQA grading on a monthly

Audit and Research

1. 1. Participates in research and clinical audits as appropriate, keeping up to date with changing practices

Personal and Professional Development

Be active in enhancing own personal knowledge and self-development. The diploma has been advised by the awarding centre as requiring 10 hours a week study. 5 hours will be provided by the DESP, 5 hours will be required in own time.

1. Attend mandatory and statutory training as
2. Attend relevant education, training and study days as

Other Role-Specific Duties

1. Carry out any other reasonable duties commensurate with the role and delegated or requested by the manager or supervisor, as the needs of the service require.
2. The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the ward or department and the Trust.

Learning and Development

• Attend mandatory training updates as required.
• Undertake training as necessary in line with the development of the post and as agreed with the line manager as part of the personal development process.
• Achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development within agreed timescales.
• Identify own learning needs and jointly plan training requirements with your line manager
• Participate in the Trusts appraisal process to discuss how your role will help deliver the best possible care to our patients and help to deliver any changes in service.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Educated to A level or equivalent
• 5 GCSE including Maths and English
• Knowledge about Diabetic Eye Screening
• NHS experience

Desirable

• City& Guild or Diabetic Eye Screening Diploma

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)

Address

Sussex House

Abbey Road

Brighton

BN2 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)