Job summary
- Main area
- Ophthalmology
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22 hours per week (22 hours/week - 2 x 11 hour shifts 07.00-18.30. No nights or weekends.)
- Job ref
- 343-7423237-RB-SK
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Helier Hospital
- Town
- Carshalton
- Salary
- £35,763 - £43,466 pro rata pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse, Eye Day Case Unit
Band 5
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
Staff Nurse - 22 hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 5 staff nurse to join the Eye Day Case Unit team at St Helier Hospital. The successful candidate will need to be enthusiastic and self-motivated with good communication skills. Experience desirable but not essential as training will be provided.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will undertake all aspects of pre and post op care for all Ophthalmology patients. They will be required to carry out pre-operative assessments including a comprehensive history taking, recording of ophthalmic measurements and following written protocols.
Working for our organisation
The post holder will ensure provision of and be accountable for, the delivery of an efficient, high quality and caring clinical service across Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, which meets service and client requirements and encompasses a wide range of specialist expertise and client groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The working day is from 7 am to 6.30 pm, 2 days a week as per roster requirements, with some Saturday working. There may be some cross site working within this role.
The post holder will admit patients for ophthalmic day surgery (majority of procedures carried out under local anaesthetic), will provide post operative instructions, will run post operative telephone consultations, will support with pre-assessment clinics including eye measurements and telephone assessments.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level degree
Desirable criteria
- Ophthalmology course
- Ophthalmolgy experience
Venepuncture
Essential criteria
- Venepuncture
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Baker
- Job title
- Clinical Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07584203191
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