Diabetic Eye Screener

Somerset NHS Charity; Blackpool; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a Mobile Diabetic Eye Screener to join a dedicated team in delivering high-quality eye care. This role involves conducting screenings and capturing retinal images in community settings, requiring excellent communication skills and empathy. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment, ensuring patient comfort and adherence to safety protocols. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care while working within a supportive and professional team. If you're passionate about healthcare and patient service, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Must have a full UK driving license to operate screening vehicle.
• Experience in patient interaction and digital photography is essential.

Responsibilities

• Conduct diabetic eye screening sessions for patients aged 12 and over.
• Install and operate mobile screening equipment safely and effectively.

Skills

Digital Photography

Patient Screening

Communication Skills

Empathy

Education

5 GCSEs including English, Maths, and Science

Job description

Employer East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Blackpool, Lancaster and Morecambe areas Town Blackpool Salary £24,625 - £25,674 per annum ( pending pay award ) Salary period Yearly Closing 18/05/2025 23:59

Diabetic Eye Screener

NHS AfC: Band 3

At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.

Job overview

The Lancashire Diabetic Eye Screening Programme is looking to recruit a Mobile Diabetic Eye Screener/Photographer. To provide clinics in the Lancaster and Morecambe area

As one of our Mobile screeners you will be joining a very busy, professional team of motivated and highly skilled individuals, you`ll run local community-based clinics to see our patients and photograph their eyes to assess for diabetic retinopathy. We`ll need you to be empathetic and able to screen patients on a daily basis. In this role, you`ll be supported whilst undertaking your training, but once that`s completed will be working largely unsupervised in a pressured environment, so a cool head is essential! All in all, we want you to be customer and people focused, caring about our patients and being passionate about delivering an exceptional service at all times.

We have 1 post available and have vacancies in the following geographic locations:

1 x vacancy in the North Lancs, Lancaster and Morecambe area, based out of Whitegate Drive in Blackpool but with daily clinics in the Lancaster area

As a Mobile Screener you will be driving a screening vehicle between community sites as such a full UK driving licence, is essential.

Main duties of the job

MAIN DUTIES

Screening/Digital photography

Deliver digital photographic retinal screening to patients with diabetes aged 12 and over registered with a Lancashire General Practice.

Install mobile equipment at designated screening location in accordance with proper and safe use, identified protocols and the operational policies of both the Lancashire Diabetic Eye Screening Programme and of the designated screening location.

Set up the allocated room(s) as required and in accordance with proper and safe use, identified protocols and the operational policies of both the Lancashire Diabetic Eye Screening Programme and of the designated screening location.

Conduct Diabetic Eye Screening sessions in accordance with proper and safe practice, national standards, and identified protocols and with the operational policies of both the Lancashire Diabetic Eye Screening Programme and National policies and procedures.

Explain the screening procedure to each patient according to National and local policy and procedures.

Confirm and record electronically patients’ identity and demographic information

Obtain and record electronically appropriate consent to screening and information sharing, according to National and local policy and procedures.

Working for our organisation

All employees are required to comply with employment legislation and codes of good practice.

Equality and Diversity

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will do all we can to make sure that job applicants and employees do not receive less favourable treatment because of their age, sex, marital status, faith, race, disability or sexual orientation, or for any other reason that is not justified.

Health and Safety

In accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and other supplementary legislation, all employees are required to follow Trust Health and Safety policies and safe working procedures, take reasonable care to avoid injury during the course of their work, and co-operate with the Trust and others in meeting statutory requirements.

Infection Control

All employees must comply with Prevention and Control of Infection polices and attend any related mandatory training.

Employees are required to report every incident where the health and safety of self or others has been jeopardised (including near misses) and to carry out or participate in investigations into such incidents as required.

Safeguarding

All employees have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults. Further guidance can be sought from your Line Manager.

Data Protection Act

All members of staff are bound by the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read attached full Job Description and person specification for full role details which also outlines the main responsibilities of the role

Person specification

Education

• Minimum of 5 GCSEs including level 4 or above in English, Maths and a Science subject or equivalent

Access to Vehicle

• Driver - owns own vehicle
• has access to a vehicle

Dear Potential Applicant,

It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

• Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
• This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
• Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only applicants, who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application, will be short-listed.

Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS)

If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained.

The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.

The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.

This cost is not applicable for a Volunteer post

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The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust.

We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve.

We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background.

We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible. By telephone [phone] or email [e-mail] write to Employment Services, Parkview Offices, Haslingden Road, Blackburn, BB2 3HH

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.