Job Purpose

A Senior Technician in Ophthalmology is responsible to provide personalised, specialised and cost effective care to the patients in accordance to established hospital policies and procedures.

A Senior Technician in Ophthalmology is required to oversee and ensure the smooth running of the imaging, perimetry and scan rooms in the eye surgery centre / department of the hospital.

A Senior Technician in Ophthalmology is also required to assist the medical, nursing and clerical staff in the eye surgery centre / department in providing the administrative and patient care support, aimed at providing an overall efficient and effective clinical service to the patients.

Duties and Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities and Duties (80%)

To conduct the following clinical tests / procedures for patients independently:

• Visual Field
• IOL calculation
• A Scan
• Pentacam
• Endothelial Cell Count
• Corneal Pachymetry
• Corneal Topography
• Optic Nerve Head Tomography
• Fundus Fluoroscence Angiography
• Indocyanine Green Angiography
• Ocular Coherent Tomography

To instruct and supervise junior technicians in Ocular Coherent Tomography and Indocyanine Green Angiography.

To develop the following photo images for clinical examination purpose:

• Slit lamp photo
• Fundus photo
• Stereodisc photos
• Photo recopy
• Slide recopy
• Clinical video tape editing

To carry out procedures and investigations as prescribed by clinicians.

To deliver safe and competent care to the patient at Clinics.

To collaborate and co-operate with clinicians and other health-care providers in the smooth delivery of patient care and services.

To provides patient/ family information and education on disease prevention.

To demonstrate proper and economical usage of consumables, pharmaceutical and stationary supplies.

To maintain a clean and safe working environment.

To provide supervision, mentorship and guidance to new / junior technicians in their work.

To demonstrate technical skills, knowledge and critical thinking in the delivery of patient care.

To maintain an updated record on all diagnostic equipment inventory and ensure all diagnostic equipment are kept on regular preventive maintenance.

Secondary Responsibilities and Duties (20%)

• To be responsible for the inventory, storing, archiving and retrieval of photoslides and images.
• To be responsible for assisting slide presentations, photographic coverage during teaching seminars, conference, etc as required by the ophthalmology department / eye surgery centre.
• To participates in service quality activities.
• To participate in community screening initiatives set up by the ophthalmology department and Eye Surgery Centre.
• To ensure patients' needs and waiting time of patients are looked into.
• To demonstrate awareness of current ophthalmology disease management and health care practices.
• To assume additional responsibilities as assigned by Nurse Managers / Executives and Senior clinicians.

Job Specification/Requirements

• Minimum NITEC Qualification.
• Minimum 3 years of experience as an Ophthalmic Technician with consistent good performance.
• Effectively bilingual in English and another language.
• Possess good interpersonal, strong team spirit and communication skill.
• IT savvy and competent in MS word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• To display compassion, a positive and caring attitude towards patients, internal and external customers.
• Able to work in a fast paced environment.

If the role sounds interesting to you, please contact 'careers_alexandra@nuhs.edu.sg' to understand more on the role. Please indicate the position that you are interested in the subject heading.

*Only Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents may apply.