Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

Main duties of the job

• To work alongside all staff in all areas of the patient pathway– ophthalmic outpatient clinics, procedure rooms, theatre, day care including admissions and discharge areas. 
• To undertake clinical work and related tasks as delegated by qualified nursing staff,  following appropriate training and assessment of competency. 
• To liaise effectively with all stakeholders in the care process, including carers and relatives, aspiring to provide an effective, seamless and integrated service to patients. 
• To attain departmental competencies in outpatients and theatre after a period of training, becoming a multi-skilled practitioner to meet the needs of the service and 
• patient-focused care such as vision assessment, admitting day case surgical patient, 
• instilling eye drops, undertaking base line observations, participating and supporting the WHO checklist, escorting patient to and from theatre and aseptic technique under the supervision of registered nursing staff. 
• To act as a chaperone if required. 
• Be a “competent user” of the variety of technical and ophthalmic equipment (computerized and mechanical) and act as a resource person for novice users. 
• Support the department to ensure all equipment is cleaned and calibrated, following local and Trust policies and procedures 
• To give clear and concise explanation and test instructions to ensure maximum patient understanding and co-operation takes place, considering patients who have visual impairment, hearing loss, physical or mental disabilities, learning difficulties, dementia, different age groups cultural differences and non-English speaking patient.
• Act accordingly to local and trust policies such as infection control, waste disposal, patient identification, surgical checklist, health and safety.
• Liaise with CSSD to ensure sterile equipment managed and available for clinical activity.
• Stock control, ensuring items are order timely and with budgetary limitations, keeping appropriately in the storeroom.

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