• Job Description

  Req#: C9287-25-1093?language=en&page=32&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  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.

  Main duties of the job

  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/carer. The post holder will undertake a range of tasks and duties as delegated by a registered nurse.

  About us

  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.

  For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

  Details

  Date posted

  04 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 3

  Salary

  £24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum, pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  287-OPHT-32-25

  Job locations

  Royal Liverpool Hospital

  Mount Vernon Street

  Liverpool

  L7 8XP

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  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 patients manual handling plan.Obtaining specimens from patients for testing.Removal of cannulae, catheters and nasogastric tubesUndertake 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 laboratory as requestedChaperoning 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

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  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 patients manual handling plan.Obtaining specimens from patients for testing.Removal of cannulae, catheters and nasogastric tubesUndertake 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 laboratory as requestedChaperoning 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

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Demonstrates a willingness & capability to undertake NVQ level 3

  Experience

  Essential

  • Demonstrable experience in hospital setting working at NVQ level 2

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Reputation for high standard of patient care

  Skills

  Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the Healthcare setting
  • Basic Computer Skills

  Other

  Essential

  • Supportive of colleagues and patients

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Demonstrates a willingness & capability to undertake NVQ level 3

  Experience

  Essential

  • Demonstrable experience in hospital setting working at NVQ level 2

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Reputation for high standard of patient care

  Skills

  Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the Healthcare setting
  • Basic Computer Skills

  Other

  Essential

  • Supportive of colleagues and patients

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Royal Liverpool Hospital

  Mount Vernon Street

  Liverpool

  L7 8XP

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Royal Liverpool Hospital

  Mount Vernon Street

  Liverpool

  L7 8XP

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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