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Surgery & Critical Care
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NHS AfC: Band 3
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Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos (7days a week (Shift patterns: 8am -8pm or 8-6pm))
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292-5875854-FC-A
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The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
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Main site in PAH and Keats House in Bush fair in Harlow
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Harlow
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£22,816 - £24,336 PA + 5% HCAS (minimum payment of £1,192 maximum £2,011)
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23/05/2024 23:59

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Optical Care Assistant (OCA)

NHS AfC: Band 3

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping. 

Our values

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts. 

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.


 

Trosolwg o'r swydd

  • To work as a member of the team to deliver direct patient assessment and care under the direction of senior staff members in Ophthalmology.
  • To liaise with the other optical care assistants, visual fields technicians, health care assistants, Orthoptists, Optometrists, Ophthalmologists, Nursing staff, other health professionals.
  • To liaise with non-clinical staff in the Eye-Unit such as the medical secretaries, reception and administrative staff.
  • To provide technical support, following relevant training and competency assessment if required, to the Ophthalmology service and other hospital departments and ensure that diagnostic tests (Visual fields, Biometry, Fundus Photography, Corneal Topography, Optical coherence tomography, tonometry etc) requested by the Clinicians for patients are carried out in a timely and accurate manner.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

  • To carry out Ophthalmology specific diagnostic testing and assessment; visual acuity, intraocular pressure (IOP), field of vision (VF/Goldmann), scans on OCT/Heidelberg, OPTOS, Biometry, Pentacam and other newly introduced equipment’s in the department. Provide specialist visual assessments for patients after training with Orthoptists, under care of the trust and to relay this information to the medical Ophthalmology team.
  • Be able to identify change and escalate; if notice significant change/deterioration in patients visual acuity, scans, VF- have unexpected variations, to immediately escalate to nurse in-charge, document and seek further advice from either senior staff and Doctor/consultant following departments protocol.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl

Please see the attached job description and person specification, available to download at any time.

Manyleb y person

interview and application

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • ophthalmology knowledge and exp
Meini prawf dymunol
  • NVQ

Application form and Interview

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • knowledge and experience of working in surgical areas
Meini prawf dymunol
  • Able to do cannulation Blood test and ECG

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Gofynion ymgeisio

Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.

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Symmandeep Sandher
Teitl y swydd
ophthalmology unit manager