Ophthalmic Photography Technician: Sponsorship Available

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

Working full time: 37.5 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Ophthalmic Photography Technician to join the busy team within Ophthalmology, to provide a comprehensive diagnostic Ophthalmic photography service to patients served by the Trust.

The successful candidate will undertake a wide range of duties with respect to ophthalmic photography for the ophthalmology department, in accordance with the needs of the Trust.

You will be expected to deliver an efficient, professional, skilled and broad range of technical services for the ophthalmology department using a wide range of equipment. You will undertake your own workload of patients and maintain associated records and mentor junior staff where required. The post holder will be expected to attend additional training when required and maintain CPD

Main duties of the job

  • The photography of patients for glaucoma monitoring within agreed timescales to specific Consultants.
  • To work autonomously (following completion of competencies), and to be responsible for completing own caseload in required time scale.
  • Provide an explanation to the patients of the specialist procedures they are undertaking
  • Colour fundus macula photography using specialist equipment.
  • Optical coherence photography of patients using Optical Coherence Tomography camera.
  • Digital Fundus Auto Fluorescence Macula Photography of patients retinal using specialist imaging equipment.

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

  • The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
  • Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
  • Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Skills

Essential

  • Photographic / media related qualification (BA Hons / HND) or relevant experience
  • 2 years clinical experience working within Medical Photography (including ophthalmic photography) – evidence required
  • Recent NHS experience working in a relevant clinical field

Desirable

  • IMI membership

Clinical Experience and Effectiveness

Essential

  • Computer literacy including knowledge and experience using photo manipulation and graphics software e.g. Adobe Creative Cloud on PC and/or MAC
  • Ability to use a range of ophthalmic imaging equipment

Desirable

  • Experience of research and audit

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 17 October 2024

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