We are recruiting for a Screen ing and Grader Manger for the Diabetic Eye Screening Programme who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The chosen candidate will work within the Herts and West Essex Diabetic Eye Screening Programme to deliver diabetic eye screening for patients in the Herts and West Essex area to the highest standards of quality and care.
This is an opportunity for an experienced and skilled screener/grader to work within the East & North Hertfordshire retinal screening team, Over seeing the delivery of a high-quality comprehensive screening service to patients with diabetes in the area.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
The post holder will lead the management of the referral outcome grading queues, ensuring patients are referred in line with national policy and within the required timeframes, escalating more complex cases to the attention of the clinical lead promptly.
You will conduct and oversee the retinal screening OCT clinics taking high quality OCT images.
The successful candidate will train and support senior screener/graders to ensure they reach and retain the required competencies of a referral outcome grader.
You will also be required to assist the programme manager as required including the need to deputise in their absence.
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.