Senior Diabetic Eye Screener/Grader-Ophthalmnology

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.

The post holder 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.

The role includes occasional weekend working and participation in late clinics.

In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,121 per annum pro rata.

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.

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)

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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)

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