Diabetic Eye Screener (Photographer)

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a reputed healthcare team as a retinal screener in South West London, making a tangible difference in patients' lives through retinal assessments. This full-time role provides training and a supportive environment to excel, focusing on exceptional customer service and interpersonal communication. Ideal for those passionate about healthcare, regardless of prior experience.

Benefits

Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees

25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell

Group Pension Plan with employer contributions

Flexible benefits to suit individual needs

Employee assistance programme

Free access to LinkedIn Learning

Qualifications

• Requires excellent customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Willing to learn and obtain necessary qualifications.
• Experience with the public is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Conduct retinal screening clinics and photograph eyes.
• Support patients in understanding their health and eye images.
• Work largely unsupervised in a pressured environment.

Skills

Customer focused

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Organised

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Minimum of 5 GCSEs including grades A-C in English, Maths, and a Science subject or equivalent

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27.05.2025

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Job Description

NEC Care, part of the NEC Health division, delivers the national diabetic eye screening programme. Our mission, vision and values are to provide people-centric services that aim to improve the health and wellbeing of those we serve by working to achieve excellence in service delivery.

South West London (SWL) DESP provides retinal screening clinics and image grading to people with diabetes in the boroughs of South West London. We are commissioned by Public Health England to provide retinal screening on behalf of the NHS and our service is compliant with the National Service Framework (NSF) and National Screening Committee (NSC) guidance, standards and objectives.

An opportunity has arisen to join the South West London eye screening programme.

Our screeners are at the heart of NEC Care, spending their time on the ground, helping our patients to live longer healthier lives. As one of our retinal screeners, you'll run local clinics to see our service users and photograph their eyes to assess for diabetic retinopathy. We need you to be empathetic and able to talk to people about their health and eye images on a daily basis. In this role, you will be supported whilst undertaking training, but once that is completed will be working largely unsupervised in a sometimes pressured environment, so a cool head is essential! All in all, we want you to be customer and people focused, caring about our service users and being passionate about delivering an exceptional service at all times.

This is a permanent, full-time post and the successful candidate will be working 37.5 hours across 5 days per week.

Qualifications

This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to join the healthcare sector, with little to no experience, has a great sense of customer service and great interpersonal skills.

Who you'll be?

We want to make sure you are set for success; This isn't all about your skills and that is why we would love to talk to you even if perhaps you don't fit all the below:

• Customer focused with brilliant interpersonal skills
• willingness to learn - as we'll put you through the necessary qualification
• organised and able to prioritise tasks
• good problem-solving skills
• able to work under pressure
• any previous experience working with the public is ideal
• minimum of 5 GCSEs including grades A-C in English, Maths, and a Science subject or equivalent

Additional Information

We are proud of the benefits we offeremployees of NEC Software Solutions

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/ sell
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• Afantasticselection offlexible benefits to suit your individual needs
• We are an employer who cares, we have ainvaluableemployee assistance programme which can help in every area of your life
• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.

All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting and reference checks.

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities.

Who we are?

We’re NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad, our software is helping to dispatch ambulances, support families, keep trains on the move, locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies.

Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services.

We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference.

We’d love your help. And we’ll support you all the way.