Senior Screener/Grader | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 09 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,970 - £36,483 +5% high cost area |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 July 2025 |
| Location: | Hertford, SG14 1LP |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7204636/361-7204636 |
Summary
We are recruiting for a Screener/Grader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
They 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, providing 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.
The post holder will undertake Referral Outcome Grading (ROG) when required and to feedback to the team at the regular MDT meetings.
You will also undertake the monthly EQA grading test (TaT) and participate in the ongoing internal quality assurance of grading standards.
You may train and mentor new screening recruits in all aspects of screening/grading, providing regular 1:1 feedback. Additionally, you'll be involved in the ongoing audit activities of the screening team.
The successful candidate will monitor the grading queues to ensure grading is completed and results are notified according to programme standards.
You will assist the Team leader with appraisals of the screening team on a six-monthly interview.
To work autonomously with minimal direction from the clinical management.
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.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Monday 23 Jun 2025