# Ophthalmic Assistant - Band 4

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Grade:** Band 4
- **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum pro rata if part time
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexibility to Service Demands as will include Peripheral Clinics)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-26T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12T08:50:47.658Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Wiltshire/Salisbury/Salisbury_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Ophthalmic_Assistant/Ophthalmic_Assistant-v8197972
- **Employer website:** https://www.salisbury.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

**PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY**

Applications are invited for a full time enthusiastic and self-motivated Ophthalmic Assistant to join our small, friendly team.

The Ophthalmology Department at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust has approximately 29,000 attendances per year. The client base covers the full life range of ages from neonates to patients in excess of 100 years.

The post holder will take part in the day-to-day service delivery within the department and have experience of working with people who have a visual impairment. The job is extremely varied with numerous opportunities to be involved in a variety of different clinical areas e.g. cataract clinics, glaucoma clinics, medical retina clinics and virtual monitoring clinics. The post holder will learn a variety of new skills and on the job training will be given as staff are encouraged to expand their knowledge and expected to learn new skills. You will also assist with ophthalmic treatments and procedures once training as been given and competencies achieved.

The post holder will have a high level of accuracy and excellent hand-eye coordination, be technically minded and have excellent communication skills.

Please note that this vacancy can't be sponsored for.

### Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

- Retinal fundus photography and analysis
- Fluorescein Fundus Angiography and Indocyanine Green Angiography
- Optic nerve head tomography
- Optical coherence tomography
- Visual field analysis including use of focimeter
- Corneal topography
- Tonometry by GAT/ ORA/ icare
- Anterior segment imaging and assessment
- Biometry
- Ultrasound A/B-scans
- Assisting in treatment rooms
- Trouble shooting equipment issues

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### Applicant requirements

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.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to GCSE grade C or equivalent in key skills level 2 or functional skills level 2 numeracy and literacy
- Computer literate with basic ECDL skills.
- Experience of working with people who have a visual impairment
- Minimum of 1 year experience working in an acute hospital setting and/or community knowledge of speciality or have a dispensing related qualification (if already working in primary care)
- Good communication skills and current evidence of dealing with members of the general public.
- Achieved competencies for use of relevant imaging equipment (OCT, Visual Fields etc)

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 472.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10503511)
- [facts about salisbury (pdf, 214.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1618)

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