Diabetic Eye Screener

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, flexible and motivated person to join the Brighton & Sussex Diabetic Eye Screening Programme as a Retinal Screening Photographer. The successful applicant will work with the retinal screening team and be responsible for providing visual acuity examinations and digital photography during retinal screening clinics.

The successful applicant will be given full in house training to ensure they are competent to administer patient eye drops and perform a visual acuity test in preparing the patient for digital photography. The successful applicant will also be given full training to perform digital photography of the patient’s retina in a dark environment within an office. Excellent patient management during clinics is essential to ensure a timely screening process.

Additional contact information

**Sena Barallon**: 07505640175

To provide photographic to the people with diabetes in living within Brighton and Sussex

To provide a comprehensive Diabetic Eye Screening Service, including retinal imaging and interpretation of retinal images.

To comply with NDESP standards

Undertakes primary interpretation of results and provision of reports.

Works collaboratively on a day-to day basis with others to contribute to the smooth and efficient running of the service.

Responsible for undertaking analysis to support the quality assurance of grading in the Diabetic Eye Screening Programme.

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**Responsibilities**:
**Clinical**: Core Responsibilities
1. Ensures that patients are treated with courtesy at all times; their individual needs are respected, maintain patient privacy and dignity.
2. Manages clinic preparation, ensuring all stock and equipment is available to use, prepares and tests equipment. To achieve this good time keeping essential.
3. Organises and, prioritises own workload Provides high quality patient care, appropriate to patient need. Is responsible for a group of patients with indirect supervision of line manager.
4. Is responsible for seeing patients in a timely fashion and ensures delays in the running of the clinic are communicated to the admin team and patients.
5. Carries responsibility for patients’ care within the clinic ensuring their safety and wellbeing such as responsibility for management of transport patients, following up safeguarding issues post clinic.
6. Takes appropriate history and information from patients, and explains the procedure of screening to them, gaining their consent to screening and recording this information. Answering any questions that are required to help the consent
7. Conducts an accurate visual acuity eye test and full pupil dilation by instillation of dilating eye drops, working to the appropriate local and national protocols.
8. Captures the appropriate images of the patients’ Obtaining best quality imaging possible.
9. Takes a full history for patients with a reduced visual acuity, including last optometrist visit, past medical history to ensure best outcome for the patient.
10. Records notes which are necessary to assist in the success for the follow up visits, such as poor to dilate, wheelchair users, any mental or physical impairment which may require additional prior knowledge by the screener.
11. Uses the time with the patients to increase their understanding and knowledge of diabetes and how it can affect the eyes, as appropriate.
12. Makes a decision on the priority of images for grader Records these r