# Visual Field Technician

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Location:** Stoke Mandeville Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Technician (discipline unspecified)
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata for part time
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-03T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20T13:00:35.386Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Buckinghamshire/Aylesbury/Buckinghamshire_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Orthoptics/Orthoptics-v8295274
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8295274?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

About the Role

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Visual Field Technician to join our Ophthalmology Department at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. This is a key clinical support role contributing to the delivery of high-quality patient care through visual field assessments and ophthalmic diagnostics.

### Main duties of the job

- Perform automated visual field tests using the Humphrey Field Analyser.
- Accurately assess spectacle prescriptions using automated focimetry.
- Clearly instruct and support patients throughout testing procedures.
- Enter results into the electronic patient notes system and maintain accurate records.
- Maintain and clean ophthalmic equipment and manage office supplies.
- Work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.

### 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

### EXPERIENCE

**Desirable**

- Experience of working in a Health care environment
- Experience of working with the public
- Previous use of organisational skills

### SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

**Essential**

- Able to travel to other sites (including Buckingham Hospital) and off site as necessary

### SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

**Essential**

- Clear, concise verbal and written communication to ensure liaison with multi-disciplinary team, patients and carers and to ensure records are kept accurately and in a legible manner
- Ability to communicate with staff and patients, this will include patients of varying mental and physical abilities and states of anxiety.
- Courteous with all patients and staff, face to face and on the telephone
- Ability to give clear instructions
- Ability to work under pressure
- Motivation to learn new skills
- Able to organise own workload
- Able to work alone and in a team
- The understanding and ability to maintain patient confidentiality
- Manually dextrous in order to examine with speed and precision and minimal discomfort and to be able to record results accurately
- Able to move freely to allow constant bending, kneeling and lifting.

**Desirable**

- Interest in Ophthalmology
- Motivated to highlight areas where change may improve service delivery

### EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

**Desirable**

- Basic computer skills GCSE English or Equivalent
- To have knowledge of the anatomy of the eye, medical background in Ophthalmology.
- Knowledge of eye conditions and their appropriate treatment.

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 120.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10649037)
- [person specification (pdf, 216.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10649038)
- [functional requirements form (pdf, 136.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10649039)

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