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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
This Ophthalmology HCSW role will involve working as part of a multidisciplinary team, assisting with the provision of high quality patient care within our Ophthalmology department.
The role provides an exciting opportunity to develop specialist skills, unique to Ophthalmology, in order to meet the needs of patients attending the department. The Ophthalmology department consists of a busy out-patients department where patients with general eye complaints, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and diabetic eye disease as well as eye casualties attend and a day surgery unit where a variety of eye surgeries are performed.
The way we deliver eye care is currently going through a change, with an increasing number of patients being seen in our newly created ‘virtual’ clinics. The successful applicant will be heavily involved in these, and will be expected to play a part in the refinement and evolution of these clinics going forward.
This post is fixed term for 12 months.
For informal enquiries please contact:
Derek Beeton, Senior Charge Nurse - 01387 246246 Ext: 33311, derek.beeton@nhs.scot
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EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
NHS Dumfries and Galloway is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Dumfries and Galloway welcomes applicants from all sections of the community.
RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agency’s new points based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the UK can work at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk We are unable to provide sponsorship for bank contracts.