Ophthalmology Healthcare Assistant - 4 Day Week, Full Time

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; AUD 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Healthcare Assistant in Ophthalmology at the Aintree site. The role supports trained staff, medical teams, patients and relatives and requires experience in an Ophthalmic Outpatient clinic.

You will measure visual acuity, instill eye drops and help care for visually challenged patients. The post is full-time, 37.5 hours over four days, with a flexible day off.

Qualifications

• Experience of working within an Ophthalmic Outpatient clinic is essential.

Responsibilities

• Participates in all aspects of patient care
• Provision of patients toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
• Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patient’s manual handling plan.
• Removal of cannulas.
• Prepare and maintain environments for clinical treatments and investigations
• Prepare patients for treatments, investigations or procedures including offering support, answering questions appropriate to own knowledge/experience and assisting in recovery
• Collection pharmacy drugs as requested.
• Chaperoning in clinic rooms, escorting patients to clinical departments within the hospital and to other hospitals for investigations.
• General and clinical observations of patients, reporting anything untoward.
• Supporting the safe delivery of treatment and care in the intravitreal injection suite/ This will be in in conjunction with the specialist team.
• Listing Patients for surgical / non surgical procedures.

Skills

Ophthalmic experience

Patient care

Job description

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Healthcare Assistant in Ophthalmology at the Aintree site. The role supports trained staff, medical teams, patients and relatives and requires experience in an Ophthalmic Outpatient clinic.

You will measure visual acuity, instill eye drops and help care for visually challenged patients. The post is full-time, 37.5 hours over four days, with a flexible day off.