About the role
Salary: Negotiable
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team in our busy, fast paced Eye Outpatients department for a band 4 Assistant Practitioner position.We are looking for a highly motivated individual who demonstrates great professionalism, has leadership skills they would like to further develop and wants to be a part of a growing team.The right candidate will be integral to the growth of the team and the service.This is a part- time position. Eye outpatients provides a positive work life balance with clinics currently running from Monday to Saturday.Eye Outpatients is a dynamic department that continues to change & develop, this requires the successful applicant to be flexible, forward thinking and have the skills to motivate peers. As a large team with over 50 staff members, we stretch over 2 locations: Southampton and Lymington hospital and we see up to 200 patients per session.The successful candidate will need to be highly motivated, professional, flexible, trustworthy and positive role model. The ability to teach, empower and coach staff it's essential for this role.Ophthalmic experience is not required, as training will be provided.If you think you are suitable for this role, we would highly recommend an informal visit to the department.
In this role, your key responsibilities will include:- Develop own knowledge and skills, and provide information to theirs to help their development.- Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others.- Contribute to the improvement of services.- Maintain quality in own work and encourage others to do the same.- Support equality and value diversity, identifying when own or others behaviour undermines equality and diversity- Health and well-being: plan, develop and implement approaches to promote health and well-being, preventing adverse affects to health and well-being contribute to assessing and undertaking health and well-being needs.- Input, store and provide data and information.- Demonstrate clinical expertise acting as a role model within the clinical specialty.- Facilitate a good learning environment for staff and learners.- Establish and maintain communication with a range of people on a range of matters in a form that is appropriate to them and the situation.