Ophthalmic Technician

An Ophthalmic Technician is required to support the Ophthalmology Service across BHRUT sites, including Queen's Hospital (main site) and King George Hospital. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team comprising consultant ophthalmologists, orthoptists, optometrists, nurses, healthcare assistants and ophthalmic technicians.

The role is essential in providing diagnostic investigations that support the assessment and management of patients within glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmology and general ophthalmology services.

Key duties include performing visual acuity assessments, computerised visual field testing (Humphrey Field Analyser), optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging and other ophthalmic investigations required for clinical decision-making.

Applicants should have proven experience in an ophthalmic technician role and hold an NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent. Candidates with relevant scientific, healthcare or nursing experience will also be considered, with training provided where appropriate.

You must demonstrate excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team in a busy clinical environment. You should be adaptable, reliable, motivated and committed to maintaining professional development.

The postholder will contribute to the provision of a technical service across the ophthalmology sub-specialties within a modern NHS eye service including assessment of visual acuity (Thompson 2000), automated visual field assessment (automated and manual) and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

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We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.