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There are full-time and part-time opportunities available. Monday to Friday with no weekend work - looking to support our diabetic eye screening teams in and around Carlow County.
Responsibilities
* To assess patients using in-direct ophthalmoscopy techniques and grade in accordance with the grading protocol.
* To contribute to the patient’s pathway through the screening/grading process, ensuring that patients are triaged directly in accordance with company policy and that the download of patient information is carried out daily.
* To operate in accordance with all current and future company policies and procedures.
* To undertake administration tasks as the programme needs require, being flexible in your approach to the changing needs of the local programme and the company as a whole.
* All staff are expected to continue their personal development to fulfil the role and develop their career through attending appropriate accredited courses, meetings, seminars, workshops, conferences, and online sessions.
* Be committed to making patients the number one focus to provide the best level of care possible within the diabetic eye screening programme.
* To support the local programme and wider company in a range of capacities such as in administration, audits, quality control, and service improvement procedures to ensure the local screening programme surpasses National standards and performance indicators.
* The role covers Co. Carlow and surrounding counties/Mobile.
Qualifications
* CORU Registered Optometrist.
* The post holder must be computer literate – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
* Previous experience of working with computer applications – accurate data input.
* Ability to show initiative, prioritize tasks, and use problem-solving skills largely unsupervised, sometimes under pressure.
* Good effective communication skills both written and oral within a multidisciplinary team at all levels and with diabetic patients in a calm, sensitive, and reassuring way.
* Previous experience working with the public.
* Full compliance with current and future policies/protocols following a training period (patient confidentiality, infection control, etc.).
* A full, clean driving license and preferably your own transport to travel to and from our office and other places of work within the programme area.
* Proficiency in Irish language and/or any other language is desirable.
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Successful applicants will be required to provide full details of any previous cautions and convictions and undertake an enhanced disclosure with the Disclosure & Barring Service upon entry and thereafter every 3 years or the equivalent.
Additional Information
Employees of NEC Software Solutions are entitled to the following Company funded benefit:
* A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions.
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