Senior Healthcare Assistant Ophthalmology, WRH

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

The closing date is 14 January 2025

Job summary

This is your opportunity to join the Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust Ophthalmic team working as a band 3 Senior Health Care Assistant (30 hours per week fixed term contract) . We are a friendly countywide team and our new innovative ways of working ensures a truly patient centred approach throughout our units.

The ophthalmology units consist of an Outpatient consulting suite together with a day care unit and operating theatres.

The post holder would be based in the Ophthalmology department at Worcester Royal Hospital and would support both the theatre and clinic areas of the department.

As a part of the countywide service delivering ophthalmic care you will be required to travel between sites on occasions.

You will need to be committed, enthusiastic, reliable and completely flexible in working hours to cover all clinic sessions.

Main duties of the job

To support professionally qualified staff in providing quality care for patients in roles, which are mainly related to patient care.
Care for a group of patients under supervision.
To prepare clinical rooms for outpatient clinics to ensure a smooth running clinic.
Visual acuity testing.
Intraocular pressure testing with the ocular response analyser.
Pentacam
Chaperoning patients within the clinical department.
Assisting the doctor within the laser clinic to maintain patient and relatives safety.
To be conversant with equipment and its use and the procedure for reporting faults.
To put away stock and help maintain stock levels.
Maintain patient and relatives safety whilst ensuring a smooth running clinic.
Assist in positioning patients on the operating table
Assist in the preparation of the theatre area
Act as an escort nurse, support the patient during their theatre journey
Act as a theatre runner
Set up of sterile fields for intravitreal injections and other procedures
Be prepared to undertake additional roles and duties following appropriate training and assessment.
To assist with departmental audits.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

Best services for local people
Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
Best use of resources
Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Date posted

31 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,071 a year band 3 AFC pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

C9365-24-1373

Job locations

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main duties of the job

To support professionally qualified staff in providing quality care for patients in roles, which are mainly related to patient care.
Care for a group of patients under supervision.
To prepare clinical rooms for outpatient clinics to ensure a smooth running clinic.
Visual acuity testing.
Intraocular pressure testing with the ocular response analyser.
Pentacam
Chaperoning patients within the clinical department.
Assisting the doctor within the laser clinic to maintain patient and relatives safety.
To be conversant with equipment and its use and the procedure for reporting faults.
To put away stock and help maintain stock levels.
Maintain patient and relatives safety whilst ensuring a smooth running clinic.
Assist in positioning patients on the operating table
Assist in the preparation of the theatre area
Act as an escort nurse, support the patient during their theatre journey
Act as a theatre runner
Set up of sterile fields for intravitreal injections and other procedures
Be prepared to undertake additional roles and duties following appropriate training and assessment.
To assist with departmental audits.

Full duties can be found on the job description

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main duties of the job

To support professionally qualified staff in providing quality care for patients in roles, which are mainly related to patient care.
Care for a group of patients under supervision.
To prepare clinical rooms for outpatient clinics to ensure a smooth running clinic.
Visual acuity testing.
Intraocular pressure testing with the ocular response analyser.
Pentacam
Chaperoning patients within the clinical department.
Assisting the doctor within the laser clinic to maintain patient and relatives safety.
To be conversant with equipment and its use and the procedure for reporting faults.
To put away stock and help maintain stock levels.
Maintain patient and relatives safety whilst ensuring a smooth running clinic.
Assist in positioning patients on the operating table
Assist in the preparation of the theatre area
Act as an escort nurse, support the patient during their theatre journey
Act as a theatre runner
Set up of sterile fields for intravitreal injections and other procedures
Be prepared to undertake additional roles and duties following appropriate training and assessment.
To assist with departmental audits.

Full duties can be found on the job description

Person Specification

Other job requirements

Essential

* Flexible with shift pattern
* Keyboard/computer skills

Qualifications

Essential

* NVQ 2/3 in direct care or equivalent
* Key skills in literacy and numeracy

Desirable

* First aid qualification
* Venepuncture competency

Experience

Essential

* experience in working in a hospital/clinical environment

Desirable

*Experience of working within an ophthalmology/theatre environment

Person Specification

Other job requirements

Essential

* Flexible with shift pattern
* Keyboard/computer skills

Qualifications

Essential

* NVQ 2/3 in direct care or equivalent
* Key skills in literacy and numeracy

Desirable

* First aid qualification
* Venepuncture competency

Experience

Essential

* experience in working in a hospital/clinical environment

Desirable

*Experience of working within an ophthalmology/theatre environment

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.