Trainee Diabetic Retinal Screener/Grader

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Doncaster; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Health & wellbeing support

NHS Car Lease

Salary sacrifice schemes

Discounts on restaurants, getaways, or

Job summary

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Trainee Retinal Screener Grader to join the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Diabetic Eye Screening Programme. The role delivers high-quality screening and grading across the area to detect diabetic retinopathy and reduce blindness.

The post includes undertaking the mandatory Level 3 diploma in Health Screening; salary starts on Band 3 and increases to Band 4 on diploma completion.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work without direct supervision, often under pressure.
• Ability to handle patient images and data securely and efficiently.
• Flexible to cover sites throughout Doncaster and Bassetlaw.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high quality screening and grading service across the Doncaster and Bassetlaw area.
• Ensure early detection of sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy and reduction of blindness.
• Support department to meet National Quality Standards and KPIs.
• Handle patient images and data and prioritise time to meet national standards.

Job description

We are seeking to appoint a Trainee Retinal Screener Grader to the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Diabetic Eye Screening Programme.,

• To provide a high quality screening and grading service across the Doncaster and Bassetlaw area against National Service Framework and National Quality Assurance Standards.
• To ensure the early detection of sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy and the reduction of blindness.
• To support the activities of the department to ensure that National Quality Standards and the Key Performance Indicators and other targets are met.
• Ability to work without direct supervision, often under pressure, on rare occasions with no guidance from peers, senior team members or the departmental managers, whilst maintaining a high standard of patient care, safety, education and time management.
• Responsibility for handling patient images and data and prioritising time to ensure the service meets national standards.
• To remain focused and resourceful in adverse working conditions so that technical problems can be analysed and resolved. The Doncaster & Bassetlaw Diabetic Eye Screening Programme screens over 36,000 patients each year across a number of fixed and mobile screening venues throughout Doncaster and Bassetlaw to deliver a consistently high quality diabetic eye screening service for people with diabetes. The role of a Retinal Screener/ Grader is a key function of the department, screening patients including taking detailed images and scans of the retina as well as grading these images for diabetic eye disease. The post includes undertaking the mandatory Level 3 diploma in Health Screening. From commencement of the post until the completion of the diploma, the salary will be based on a Band 3 and increased to Band 4 once the diploma is obtained.

Requires the ability to be flexible to cover sites throughout Doncaster and Bassetlaw. Car driver/access to personal vehicle desirable due to off site and community based working.

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues. At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions. As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:

• o Extensive range of learning opportunities
• o NHS Pension Scheme
• o Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• o Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• o NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• o Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers