Staff Nurse - Ophthalmology

You will be working alongside an established Macular nursing team and your duties will include supporting patients who are attending the clinic. you will be performing vision checks, Intra-ocular pressure checks and learning other ophthalmic skills that will allow you to prepare the patients for consultation and injections., patients attending the department . Preparation of patients undergoing ophthalmic investigations, including requesting of relevant investigations, surgical procedures.

To run and organise clinic and to assist in ophthalmic surgical procedures. Participates in maintaining a safe, comfortable and therapeutic environment for all patients and carers and maintain agreed standards of nursing care. Maintain nursing records in accordance with the NMC and Trust guidelines. Maintain and improve quality of patient care through contribution to the development of Essence of Care and clinical benchmarking within the unit.

Ensure due regard is given to customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients. Providing information and support to patients/carers, and ensuring all those involved in the care are aware of changes in the patients' condition. Assist in the safe custody, checking and administration of drugs. To undertake expanded practice, under supervision, in order to optimise patient care and in accordance with ward/department and Trust policies.

Involve patients and carers in the planning and delivery of care. Ensure effective lines of communication within the department. Assisting the department manager in identifying required resources to enable nursing staff to provide agreed standards of patient care. Collaborates with other professional groups to ensure safe and effective care is made available on the department. Works in line with and promotes government and hospital strategies, ensuring nursing staff meet their responsibilities and are working to the aims and objectives of the organisation.,

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £25.70 (standard disclosure) or £46.70 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

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