Retinal Screener

at  North Tees Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

Communicate effectively at all levels including Senior Management, Heads of Service, other departments, service users and external stakeholders. Liaise internally with colleagues to ensure the smooth running of the Retinal Screening clinic Ensure good relationships are developed and maintained at all screening location with other Trust staff who may be involved in associated patient care. Provide advice to patients are carers where there may be barriers to screening Maintain good relationships with all service users, internal and external Encourage and re-assure patients the importance of screening Work collaboratively with the wider team, clinical staff and failsafe department to ensure the smooth delivery of the screening programme Regular requirement to deal with sensitive and confidential information demonstrating empathy, tact and diplomacy Requirement to communicate effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds. Maintain confidentiality at all times of patient information to which the post holder has access, including patient records/database when undertaking screening duties.
Attend departmental meetings and participate in MDT providing feedback to the clinical lead Deliver eye screening clinics unsupervised throughout all clinic locations, often working alone away from the base. Assess and make clinical judgement regarding patients eye health comparing a range of options. Perform visual acuity testing, instillation of eye drops according to protocol. Capture and review retinal images using specialised fundus photography and, if appropriate, alert grading staff for urgent assessment.
Triage images and place in appropriate grading queue using Traffic Light Grading Queue Participate in External Quality Assurance and participate in simple clinical audits To make decisions and judgements based on the information provided by the patient, therefore being able to work autonomously throughout the day

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