Trainee Health Screener

NHS; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Trainee Health Screener in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. This role involves ensuring patient comfort during screenings and taking accurate eye photographs. Ideal candidates will be compassionate and adaptable, with a full driving license and a desire to pursue a Health Screener Diploma. The salary starts at £24,523, with opportunities for career progression.

Qualifications

• Experience in a caring environment or hospital background is preferable.
• Full driving licence and access to a car for travel to clinics.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that patients feel comfortable during the screening process.
• Safely administer eye drops and capture images accurately.
• Maintain a sufficient stock of consumables for your clinic.

Skills

Compassionate

Empathetic

Adaptable

Good customer service

Education

Health Screener Diploma

Job description

Role: Trainee Health Screener. Location: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire - you will travel to screening locations in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire area, so a driving license and access to a car are essential for the role. Salary: £24,523 rising upon completion of your diploma. Thank you for your initial interest in a career in Diabetic Eye Screening; we appreciate that not many people know what the role of a screener is, but hopefully throughout your application process you’ll have a better understanding.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure that patients are made to feel welcome and comfortable throughout the screening process
• Undertake the screening Checklist to ensure the screening environment is safe (for yourself and your patients)
• Basic maintenance of the camera and equipment to enable the best possible images are taken
• Safely administer the eye drops (to enlarge pupils), and undertake photographs ensuring correct field of view
• Identify any patients requiring urgent onward referral at the time of their screening appointment
• Maintaining a sufficient stock of consumables to run your clinic

About us

InHealth is the UK’s largest specialist provider of diagnostic and healthcare solutions. Our aim is to make healthcare better for patients by working collaboratively with the NHS to deliver a range of high‑quality tests, scans, assessments and procedures. In the last year, we have supported more than 5 million people in their healthcare journeys, the majority of these are NHS patients and service users.

As a people‑focused organisation, our teams are integral in how we deliver our services and our values of Trust, Passion, Care and Fresh Thinking underpin everything we do, influencing the way we interact with patients, customers, and colleagues.

Our mission is to be the preferred provider of high‑quality diagnostics and healthcare solutions in hospitals and in accessible community settings, serving patients from 1,000 locations by 2025.

Job responsibilities

Role: Trainee Health Screener

Location: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire - you will travel to screening locations in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire area, so a driving license and access to a car are essential for the role.

Salary: £24,523 rising upon completion of your diploma. Thank you for your initial interest in a career in Diabetic Eye Screening, we appreciate that not many people know what the role of a screener is, but hopefully throughout your application process you’ll have a better understanding.

So, what is Diabetic Eye Screening? Some people with diabetes develop serious complications with their eyes, called diabetic retinopathy. If they don’t get this treated properly, it can lead to sight loss. Diabetic eye screening is a test to check for eye problems caused by diabetes. The eye screening test can find eye problems before sight is affected. Pictures are taken of the back of the eyes to check for any changes.

Experience in a caring environment or hospital background is preferable but not necessary, our screeners have come from all walks of life. If you are good with people and want to make a difference this could be the career for you. Starting as a screener you will be trained on the job and will be given all the skills and knowledge to complete your Health Screener Diploma. Once trained there are a variety of opportunities to progress your career in Diabetic Eye Screening with salaries up to 45k:

• Screener / Grader
• Arbitration Grader
• Referral Outcome Grader
• OCT examiner
• OCT grader
• Slit Lamp Examiner
• Team Leader/Management

Who are we looking for?

• Compassionate individuals who are empathetic towards the requirements of each individual patient
• Someone who is happy to travel to our screening services in the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire area
• Although we will provide full training, we are looking for individuals who are able to take detailed/up close pictures of the eye and remain composed
• People who consider themselves adaptable and possess the ability to think quickly and resolve problems
• Flexible in their working week as occasional evening and weekend work may be required and a commitment to completing their Health Screener Diploma in the required timescale
• Those looking for a career in a care profession in their next position
• Individuals who enjoy working with the public, are caring and have an in built need to help others
• People who take pride in the level of customer service they offer
• Full driving licence and access to a car for travel to and from clinics

Key duties of a Screener

• Ensure that patients are made to feel welcome and comfortable throughout the screening process
• Undertake the screening Checklist to ensure the screening environment is safe (for yourself and your patients)
• Basic maintenance of the camera and equipment to enable the best possible images are taken
• Safely administer the eye drops (to enlarge pupils), and undertake photographs ensuring correct field of view
• Identify any patients requiring urgent onward referral at the time of their screening appointment
• Maintaining a sufficient stock of consumables to run your clinic

Our application processes

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.