Retinal Screener Grader inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED 17 MAY 2024

Excellent customer care and communication skills are essential for this post.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified Retinal Screener Grader to join the South East London Diabetic Eye Screening Programme, provided by Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

The candidate will work in clinics across Bexley, Greenwich, Bromley, Lewisham , Southwark and Lambeth during the training period, later settling into one locality team, with occasional cross cover in other localities.

Screening is delivered in hospital outpatient clinics, NHS health centres, GP practices and high street opticians. All locations are accessible by public transport, applicants do not need to hold a driving licence.

The successful candidate must hold the national qualification in diabetic eye screening (City and Guilds or Health Screeners diploma) and should be a confident and experienced grader with experience working at Primary and Secondary level grading.

Experience in capturing OCT images would be an advantage but not essential.

Excellent customer care and communication skills are essential for this post. You will be self-disciplined, focused and able to manage clinics independently providing the highest quality care to our patients.

We pride ourselves on the quality of our grading training and the successful candidate will be supported to develop their DR and non-DR grading skills, with the aim of progressing to Arbitration and ROG level grading and band 5 roles.


Running Diabetic Eye Screening Clinics


  • Pre-assessing patients, including taking Visual Acuity
  • Capturing relevant medical history
  • Instilling eye drops
  • Capturing retinal photographs and OCT scans
  • Grading retinal photographs

Further information on the role and its requirements can be found in the attached job description and person specification documentation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is commissioned by NHS England to provide the Diabetic Eye Screening Programme across South East London.

Our screening clinics are operated from several hospital and community sites across the sector, with our administration, management and grading centre based on the Guy’s Hospital Campus. We have very close links with both ophthalmology and diabetes departments, aiming to provide an integrated and patient focused screening service.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jack South Job title: Southwark and Lewisham Team Leader Email address:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified Retinal Screener Grader to join the South East London Diabetic Eye Screening Programme, provided by Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

The candidate will work in clinics across Bexley, Greenwich, Bromley, Lewisham , Southwark and Lambeth during the training period, later settling into one locality team, with occasional cross cover in other localities.

Screening is delivered in hospital outpatient clinics, NHS health centres, GP practices and high street opticians. All locations are accessible by public transport, applicants do not need to hold a driving licence.

The successful candidate must hold the national qualification in diabetic eye screening (City and Guilds or Health Screeners diploma) and should be a confident and experienced grader with experience working at Primary and Secondary level grading.

Experience in capturing OCT images would be an advantage but not essential.

Excellent customer care and communication skills are essential for this post. You will be self-disciplined, focused and able to manage clinics independently providing the highest quality care to our patients.

We pride ourselves on the quality of our grading training and the successful candidate will be supported to develop their DR and non-DR grading skills, with the aim of progressing to Arbitration and ROG level grading and band 5 roles.

Running Diabetic Eye Screening Clinics

  • Pre-assessing patients, including taking Visual Acuity
  • Capturing relevant medical history
  • Instilling eye drops
  • Capturing retinal photographs and OCT scans
  • Grading retinal photographs

Further information on the role and its requirements can be found in the attached job description and person specification documentation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is commissioned by NHS England to provide the Diabetic Eye Screening Programme across South East London.

Our screening clinics are operated from several hospital and community sites across the sector, with our administration, management and grading centre based on the Guy’s Hospital Campus. We have very close links with both ophthalmology and diabetes departments, aiming to provide an integrated and patient focused screening service.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jack South Job title: Southwark and Lewisham Team Leader Email address:


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