Diabetic Eye Screening Programme Screener/Grader

Job overview

To run retinal screening clinics for patients with diabetes in North Central London (NCL) and that they receive a high quality systematic screening, grading.

Patients will range from those with learning difficulties and dementia to those who are highly informed of their medical condition, from young persons in their early teens to patients in late old age, from those who are highly articulate to those who have little ability to conduct a conversation in English. All patients must be dealt with in the same professional manner.

As this programme is multi-centered, the post holder will support the programme in various settings, therefore travel will be involved. Grading takes place at the North Middlesex site. The post holder will also be expected to work at out of hours clinics (evenings and Saturdays).

The candidate is expected to work from 4-5 different clinic location - Some Evening or Saturday working will be required.

If the Candidate does not have the full HSD screening qualification, they may be recruited as a trainee band 4 at 70% of the salary and once their qualification is completed, they will go on to full salary. The service will enroll them on the course and provide support for them to complete their qualification.

Main duties of the job

• Develop and provide a professional level of customer service for the department.
• Respond to enquiries in a friendly, professional and courteous manner, resolving issues where possible or escalating to an appropriate team member when required.
• Communicate effectively and use appropriate interpersonal skills with people both internally and externally, maintaining the professional reputation of the Trust and department at all times.
• Portraying a professional image, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
• To continuously contribute to the progression and development of the chosen department throughout the provision of a high quality service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide diabetic eye screening on completion of induction, training and competency accreditation in accordance with national guidelines. This includes:
• Taking and recording diabetic and eye related medical history.
• Assessing and recording patient’s visual acuity.
• Instilling eye drops as prescribed.
• Provide patients with both written and verbal information about diabetic eye disease.
• To Perform fundus photography using a digital imaging system and triage images in an appropriate manner
• To hold the C&G or HSD Level 3 Qualification in Diabetic Eye Screening/ Grading or to work towards its completion.
• To undertake primary grading of images once necessary number of satisfactory supervised grades have been completed and specialist Units of Level 3 Health Screening Diploma (Diabetic Eye) has been achieved.
• To undertake secondary grading of images once approved by the Screening Manager and the Clinical Lead,  to ensure that the agreed grading targets are met. These qualitative and quantitative targets will be agreed by the Screening Manager and the Clinical Lead.
• To participate in inter-grader agreement reviews with the Clinical Lead.
• To undertake all Trust Mandatory Training.
• To aim for and complete minimum of 10 Test & Training sets per year to an agreed standard.
• To run Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Clinics by taking OCT images and photographs when needed.