Employer: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Chorley Hospital
Town: Chorley
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 05/02/2025
Ophthalmic Technician
Band 3
Job overview
Are you passionate about customer service, patient care, and offering the best patient experience?
This exciting role at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is not your ordinary outpatient position – you will join the team as an Ophthalmic Technician, bringing your valued customer service knowledge and skills to meet the caring values of our organization, ensuring every patient receives the best experience in our hospital.
We are looking for individuals with a strong background in providing proactive and first-class customer service, a real desire to provide excellent patient care, and the ability to communicate politely and professionally with all patients and colleagues.
You will work as part of a dynamic team committed to high standards of care for all of our patients.
Main duties of the job
You’ll be responsible for assisting patients and ensuring the best customer journey throughout, including:
* Undertaking ophthalmic imaging and diagnostics including visual fields tests, visual acuity test, and OCT.
* Providing support to patients in clinic who may be elderly or visually impaired.
* Recording physical measurements, including accurate visual acuity, height, weight, and vital signs.
* Working efficiently and proactively to ensure the clinic runs smoothly.
* Contributing to a rota with a variety of shifts usually ranging from 8 am to 6 pm, including some weekend working.
* Part-time applications are welcome.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely makes a difference to support our patients and staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fantastic people, and do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills and enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold, and help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centers around patient care and enhancing their experience, which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be based in the Lancashire Eye Centre at Chorley Hospital. This is a brand new, purpose-built ophthalmic center with state-of-the-art facilities. The posts will rotate between Chorley Hospital and the Eye Assessment Unit at Preston Hospital.
The role will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, and you will play a vital part in ensuring our patients receive the best possible care.
We will support you in developing your skills and offer opportunities for training and education. In addition, we offer a comprehensive induction to ensure you are skilled in undertaking the day-to-day tasks.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
* GCSE maths & English grade 4-9 or grade C or above OR level 2 functional skills in maths and level 2 functional skills in English.
* Level 3 QCF diploma (Qualification Credit Framework) in healthcare / NVQ level 3.
Knowledge & Experience
* Dealing with the public.
* Awareness of confidentiality and infection control.
* Working within a team.
* Previous experience of working in a healthcare or related setting.
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received, so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We’ll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application, so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity, and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity, or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.
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