Healthcare Assistant - Ophthalmology

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Health Care Assistant to join our Macular service within St Paul's at the Royal Liverpool Hospital on a part-time basis.
The successful candidate will have experience within a hospital Ophthalmology unit and experience with Macular patients undergoing intravitreal injections.

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
The role will include general health care as well as assisting the specialist nurse practitioners and medical staff within the macular service.
The successful candidate must have excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and be able to work on a variety of IT systems.

Working under the supervision of a registered nurse, assisting the Macular Service Department team in providing the highest possible standard of care for patients and their families/carers. The post holder will undertake a range of tasks and duties as delegated by a registered nurse.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Participates in all aspects of patient care with particular attention to personal hygiene and grooming.

• Provision of patients' toileting needs, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
• Carry out any movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patient’s manual handling plan.
• Obtaining specimens from patients for testing.
• Removal of cannulae, catheters, and nasogastric tubes.
• Undertake the dressing of non-complex wounds (in accordance with identified competencies and in conjunction with the plan of care).
• Prepare and maintain environments for clinical treatments and investigations.

Prepare patients for treatments, investigations, or procedures including offering support, answering questions appropriate to own knowledge/experience.

• Collection of blood products from the laboratory as requested.
• Chaperoning and escorting patients to clinical departments within the hospital and to other hospitals for investigations.
• Assist Registered Nurse in performing last offices.
• General and clinical observations of patients, reporting anything untoward to Registered Nursing Staff.
• Recording of blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and respiration rate. Oxygen saturation monitoring.
• Undertake blood glucose monitoring, venepuncture, and/or cannulation upon the direction of the registered nurse.