Optical Healthcare Assistant

5 months ago

Salisbury, United Kingdom Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Ophthalmology Department at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust has approximately 29,000 attendances per year. The client base covers the full life range of ages from neonates to patients in excess of 100 years.

We have a full time and part time vacancies as an Optical Health Care Assistant. This is an exciting opportunity for an existing dispensing Optical Assistant/Health Care Assistant to join our friendly professional ophthalmic team. This position will be based at our Salisbury purpose built unit.

The post holder will take part in the day-to-day service delivery within the department, and have experience of working with people who have a visual impairment.

Previous experience within a health care setting and/or optical community setting is essential preferably within secondary care with an education qualification in numeracy and literacy. It would be advantageous if all applicants had an NVQ/QCF in Health and Social Care /Care Certificate but show a willingness to undertake if these qualifications have not been achieved.

Unfortunately we cannot accept those who need sponsorship to work in this role due to government guideline's.

Working alongside the Ophthalmology team in the day to day running of clinics, carrying our relevant diagnostics examinations.

Assisting in the running of pre and post-operative clinics including diagnostic activity

Addressing patient queries effectively to offer support and reassurance

Cleaning, preparing and assembling of associated surgical equipment prior to and during treatment

Acting as Intravitreal injection runner/escort

Preparing all areas prior to any clinical activities ensuring equipment is checked ready for use.

You will be a key member of our nursing team providing support with our registered nurses to children, patients and families. You will work alongside the outpatient team running clinics and performing visual acuities and assisting in diagnostic procedures.

Ensuring equipment is stored correctly and assisting with stock control

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

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