Retinal Screener

The NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme aims to reduce the risk of sight loss among people with diabetes through the early detection and treatment of diabetic retinopathy.

A vacancy has arisen for a Retinal Screener

Postholder will be expected to undertake Health Screener Diploma and once qualified this post will be an excellent opportunity for the qualified screener to expand their role, with the potential to develop skills in specialist areas of this field.

Postholder will be the first contact for people attending the screening service and will be expected to support service users through the screening process and to ensure they ware fully informed as to the expectations/limitations of screening

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

We recruit for values and “Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool”

To accurately measure visual acuities and instil mydriatic drops

To capture Retinal images from the patient using a non-mydriatic fundus digital camera

To provide diabetic eye screening and advice to patients, relatives and carers where there may be barriers to understanding.

To be able to identify when patients require fast track referral and triage to appropriate 'traffic light' response queue or inform verbally of identified urgent sight threatening diabetic retinopathy to senior level graders.

To make decisions and judgements based on the information provided by the patient, therefore being able to work autonomously throughout the day