East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Senior Screener/Grader

The closing date is 23 June 2025

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Screener/Grader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

They will work within the Herts and West Essex Diabetic Eye Screening Programme to deliver diabetic eye screening for patients in the Herts and West Essex area to the highest standards of quality and care.This is an opportunity for an experienced and skilled screener/grader to work within the East & North Hertfordshire retinal screening team, providing a high-quality comprehensive screening service to patients with diabetes in the area.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will undertake Referral Outcome Grading (ROG) when required and to feedback to the team at the regular MDT meetings.

You will also undertake the monthly EQA grading test (TaT) and participate in the ongoing internal quality assurance of grading standards.

You may train and mentor new screening recruits in all aspects of screening/grading, providing regular 1:1 feedback. Additionally, you'llbe involved in the ongoing audit activities of the screening team.

The successful candidate will monitor the grading queues to ensure grading is completed and results are notified according to programme standards.

You will assist the Team leader with appraisals of the screening team on a six-monthly interview.

To work autonomously with minimal direction from the clinical management.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  • Hertford County, Hertford
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Details

Date posted

09 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year +5% high cost area

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

361-7204636

Job locations

Hertford County Hospital

North Road

Hertford

SG14 1LP


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

  • Health Screener Diploma in Diabetic eye screening
  • Good level of education

Desirable

  • Further education

Previous Experiance

Essential

  • Extensive grading experience at Primary, Secondary, arbitration and referral outcome grading.
  • Keep accurate and complete records consistent with legislation, policy and procedures
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Significant experience in secondary grading
  • Understanding of NHS screening procedures

Skills

Essential

  • Experience of undertaking audit and research
  • Ability to recognise common non-DR related eye conditions and refer appropriately
  • Ability in taking responsibility for diagnosis from examining images and communication to patients and medical personnel in a sensitive but straightforward manner
  • OCT capture and interpretation

Knowledge

Essential

  • Excellent understanding of diabetic eye screening
Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

  • Health Screener Diploma in Diabetic eye screening
  • Good level of education

Desirable

  • Further education

Previous Experiance

Essential

  • Extensive grading experience at Primary, Secondary, arbitration and referral outcome grading.
  • Keep accurate and complete records consistent with legislation, policy and procedures
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Significant experience in secondary grading
  • Understanding of NHS screening procedures

Skills

Essential

  • Experience of undertaking audit and research
  • Ability to recognise common non-DR related eye conditions and refer appropriately
  • Ability in taking responsibility for diagnosis from examining images and communication to patients and medical personnel in a sensitive but straightforward manner
  • OCT capture and interpretation

Knowledge

Essential

  • Excellent understanding of diabetic eye screening

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Hertford County Hospital

North Road

Hertford

SG14 1LP


Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Hertford County Hospital

North Road

Hertford

SG14 1LP


Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Diabetic Eye Screener/Grader Manager

Laura Reed-Peck

laura.reed-peck@nhs.net

07791060442

Details

Date posted

09 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year +5% high cost area

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

361-7204636

Job locations

Hertford County Hospital

North Road

Hertford

SG14 1LP


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