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

• The post holder will support the Imaging Department in delivering high-quality, individualised care to service users, their relatives and carers. They will provide safe, effective and appropriately delegated care to patients attending ophthalmology services, including outpatient clinics, theatre, ARC and outreach clinics.
• The post holder will always promote the safety, wellbeing, dignity and human rights of service users and will work in accordance with person-centred care principles. They will ensure that patients are treated with compassion, respect and sensitivity throughout their care and experience within the service.
• The post holder will be required to undertake training in the safe and effective use of a range of ophthalmic imaging and scanning equipment. This will include comprehensive in-house training and, where required by the Ophthalmology Service, attendance at relevant external courses and training programmes.
• The post holder will also undertake training with the Nursing Team to develop competency in carrying out clinical assessments and procedures, including checking visual acuity using different methods and measuring intraocular pressure (eye pressure).

Proposed Interview date: Saturday 26th September

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 communicate respectfully and effectively: verbally and written in a timely manner.

 Understand the principle of confidentiality and communicate in a way that maintains patient privacy and dignity.

Maintain clear and legible patient records in accordance with both Trust and professional standards for record keeping.

In conjunction with the nurse in charge and other senior members of the multi-disciplinary team support a positive culture, patient experience and environment for both staff and patients. 

Identify own training and development needs and undertake appropriate training/education as required.

Participate in an annual individual performance review process where objectives will be agreed, performance monitored and personal development needs discussed. 

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