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Job summary

Main area
Ophthalmology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
361-7307173
Employer
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
New QEII Hospital
Town
Welwyn Garden City
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/09/2025 23:59
Interview date
25/09/2025

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East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust logo

Screening and Grading Manager

NHS AfC: Band 7

Here at  East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

 

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Screening and Grader Manger for the Diabetic Eye Screening Programme who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.  

The chosen candidate will work within the Herts and West Essex Diabetic Eye Screening Programme to deliver diabetic eye screening for patients in the Herts and West Essex area to the highest standards of quality and care. 

This is an opportunity for an experienced and skilled screener/grader to work within the East & North Hertfordshire retinal screening team, Over seeing the delivery of a high-quality comprehensive screening service to patients with diabetes in the area. 

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead the management of the referral outcome grading queues, ensuring patients are referred in line with national policy and within the required timeframes, escalating more complex cases to the attention of the clinical lead promptly.

You will conduct and oversee the retinal screening OCT clinics taking high quality OCT images.

The successful candidate will train and support senior screener/graders to ensure they reach and retain the required competencies of a referral outcome grader.

You will also be required to assist the programme manager as required including the need to deputise in their absence.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  • Hertford County, Hertford
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.  We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.  This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.  

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential criteria
  • Health Screener Diploma in Diabetic eye screening
  • Good level of education
Desirable criteria
  • Further education

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive grading experience at Primary, Secondary, arbitration and Referral outcome grading
  • Keep accurate and complete records consistent with legislation, policy and procedures
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Significant experience in secondary grading
  • Understanding of NHS Screening procedures

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Experience of undertaking audit and research
  • Ability to recognise common non-DR related eye conditions and refer appropriately
  • Ability in taking responsibility for diagnosis from examining images and communication to patients and medical personal in a sensitive but straightforward manner
  • OCT capture and interpretation

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Excellent understanding of diabetic eye screening

Other Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
  • Flexible and able to work using Initiative
  • Ability to remain calm and personable in periods of tension
  • Full valid UK driving license and have access to a car to use with business insurance

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident employerStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Matt Price
Job title
Head of Orthoptics and Optometry
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01438 288190
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