Unit Manager - Ophthalmology

at  The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

• Manage Eye unit and Keats House, ophthalmology department in both sites (eye unit in main site and Keats House in Bush Fair, Harlow.
• To provide daily management of the outpatients staff excluding medical and non-clinical staff, whilst liaising with other service users in the provision of out patients’ services, ensuring that quality services are provided for the patients/service users, resources are efficiently and effectively deployed and that skills and competencies within the department are maintained and developed.
• Report to ophthalmology Matron and liaise with all operational team like General Manager, Service manager and assistant service manager, regarding clinic capacity
• To appropriately manage both (Eye unit & Keats House) units, maintain safer staffing levels for all clinics
• To work under own initiative and make confident decisions as required to ensure smooth running of ophthalmology services.
• To ensure compliance with all relevant Trust policies, including Health & Safety, Infection Prevention Control, Confidentiality, Data Protection, Attendance Management, Risk Register and Incident reporting and maintaining safe working environments within the units
• To liaise with Keats House Landlords and their team regarding the maintenance of the unit.
  Our Organisation
  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.
  Our Values
  The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
  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
  The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
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