# Senior Healthcare Support Worker, Ophthalmology

**Company**: Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Ashford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £27,106 to £28,850 a year pa inc. HCAS
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Ashford and St Peters NHS foundation Trust is now recruiting for a Senior Health Care Support Workers (Band 3) in the Ophthalmology Department.

The role involves carrying out assigned tasks related to direct patient care while maintaining patient privacy and dignity, demonstrating excellent care, compassion, and communication skills, and working under the supervision of a Registered Nurse or Nursing Associate.

Key responsibilities include:

- Assisting the Medical team or Nurse practitioners with intravitreal injections, minor operations, and cross-linking clinics

- Supervising and training less experienced HCAs and helping with the orientation of new nurses and support student nurses

- Looking after patients pre- and post-op eye surgery and assisting with basic care

- Taking patients to theatre and collecting patients post-surgery

- Working in the eye clinic completing vision, visual field tests, and eye pressure tests

- Liaising with the multi-disciplinary team as required

- Teaching patients safe drop instillation techniques

- Assisting registered nurses in admitting and discharging patients in the eye ward

- Communicating any changes in patient condition or concerns to the nurse in charge

The ideal candidate will have recent and previous NHS experience as a healthcare support worker for a minimum of six months, have successfully achieved the Care Certificate within an NHS setting, and hold a recognised level 3 qualification.

We offer the full range of NHS benefits and discounts.

## Skills

### Required
- Communication skills
- Care Certificate
- Level 3 qualification
- NHS experience
- Moving and handling patients
- Infection prevention and control
- Safeguarding adults and children

### Nice to have
- Previous experience in Ophthalmology
- Experience training and supporting new staff
- Extended Clinical Skills

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