Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
About
First choice for Buckinghamshire and beyond
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust provides a wide range of high-quality acute and community services from two acute hospital sites in Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe, and community hospitals at Amersham, Thame, Marlow, Buckingham, Chalfonts and Gerrards Cross. Specialist services include our regional dermatology, allergy and skin cancer centre, burns care and plastics sub-regional centre, cardiac services and the National Spinal Injuries Centre. More than 6,000 staff serve residents across Buckinghamshire, Thame (Oxfordshire), Tring (Hertfordshire) and Leighton Buzzard (Bedfordshire) - a combined population of 500,000. It serves a much larger population, 1.5m for burns and plastic services and 14m for spinal injuries.
Where your needs always come first
Our patients are at the heart of everything that we do, providing you with safe and compassionate care, every time. Our focus is on providing and everything we do is aimed at delivering right care, right place, right time, first time.
Key details
Location
Site: Chalfont, High Wycombe and Amersham Hospital
Address: Mandeville Road
Town: Aylesbury
Postcode: HP21 8AL
Major / Minor Region: Buckinghamshire
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
Salary
Salary: £24,625 - £25,674 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 3)
Specialty
Main area: Ophthalmology Out Patients/Ward
Job overview
Are you someone who enjoys looking after people? Would you enjoy working with new healthcare technology? You may be an experienced Healthcare Assistant or someone looking for a new direction in your career. Stoke Mandeville Hospital Ophthalmology department is looking to increase their Ophthalmic Technical Healthcare Assistant workforce.
We are currently seeking highly motivated people to join our nursing team. The successful applicant will be a highly motivated person who is quick and willing to learn new skills. It would be great if you already have experience as a Health Care Assistant or have previously worked in an Ophthalmology setting, but most important is enthusiasm to learn and the ability to work in a busy environment.
The role will include working alongside the Ophthalmic nurses, assessing the patients attending Ophthalmology clinics and performing the diagnostic imaging tests that those patients require. You will be expected to assist the nursing team in the safe and effective delivery of patient-focused care in all areas of the Ophthalmology department.
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* Visual Acuity
* Drop and ointment installation (specific drugs only)
* Caring for a patient with a visual impairment
* Taking patients medical histories for assessment prior to eye medication instillation.
* Educate patients and carers in lid hygiene.
* Assisting in intravitreal injection clinics and minor ops
* Assisting in Medical retina clinics with basic history taking
* Assessment of pupil reaction
* Performing intraocular pressure measurement with tonopen/ICare/ORA
* Performing central corneal thickness measurement with pachymeter
Working for our organisation
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
* As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
* We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
* We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
* Good basic education
* NVQ Level 1 or 2
* Experience within an ophthalmology setting
* Basic use of Microsoft Word
Desirable criteria
* Desirable to have a basic knowledge of the anatomy of the eye. Knowledge of eye conditions and their treatment. Knowledge of imaging procedures involved in role
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
* Evidence of working in a busy environment
* Experience in a customer-focused environment
* Understands nature of HCA duties Patient Care and Housekeeping duties
* Previous experience in a health care setting
Desirable criteria
* Understands nature of HCA duties
SKILLS, ABILITIES
Essential criteria
* Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with multidisciplinary team patients and carers in written and spoken English
* Demonstrates a courteous manner with all individuals who he/she comes into contact with e.g. patients, relatives, staff etc.
* Manually dextrous in order to examine with speed, precision and minimal discomfort and to be able to record results accurately
* Ability to write clearly and legibly in English
* Able to take messages and pass them on accordingly Understands concept of confidentiality and standards of conduct and care
* Ability to use a computer
Desirable criteria
* Ability to use a computer
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Hazel Nyack-kaseke
Job title: Matron
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01296315942
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