Breast Screening Coordinator

3 months ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to work with the Breast Screening team, promoting and encouraging participation in screening across a wide a diverse population.

This is a 2 year post, and may be offered as a fixed term contract or a secondment opportunity.

The post holder will be working across the Liverpool, Sefton and Knowsley areas, attending health promotion events, visiting GP practices, volunteer groups and other stakeholders. Travel expenses will be compensated. On occasion, events may be held in the evenings or weekends, so some flexibility is essential.

The post holder will work within the Breast Screening team, alongside our newly appointed Breast Screening Uptake Officer, but will also need to be able to manage their own workload.

Some experience of health promotion or Breast Screening would be an advantage, but full training will be given.

A key aspect of the role involves daily and direct (e.g. face to face and telephone) communication with participants/clients, relatives, carers, and other health and social care professionals.

The information and nature of the communication required is sensitive due to the nature of screening for cancer.

Communication in this context requires a high degree of empathy, understanding, diplomacy, honesty and integrity and for this reason post holder will have excellent communication skills and be willing to undertake on-going training and development.

Contribute to the increase in uptake and coverage for Breast Screening

assessment.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1st October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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3. Proactively contact participants (where applicable) who have been called for the first time, to ask if they are intending to attend screening. Offer information and support if required or obtain an understanding as to the reasons why if they are not planning to attend.

4. In collaboration with the Programme Manager/Office Manager, use site specific uptake data and demographic data to develop an understanding of the population groups not attending for screening i.e. those from protected characteristic groups and the barriers that those population groups face in accessing screening services.

5. Provide help to participants such as giving detail behind correspondence/helping the participant
understand the information they are given, offering emotional support, reminding the client of appointments and rearranging them on the client’s behalf if necessary.

6. Answer queries in relation to their appointment, finding advice from appropriate source where needed

7. Provide comprehensive and effective health promotion support in identifying, developing and implementing specific approaches in relation to screening to raise awareness of and to increase uptake
and coverage rates.

8. Gather evidence on why the local eligible population choose not to attend/participate in cancer screening

9. Work closely with GP practices and to liaise with health care
professionals and voluntary organisations in organising promotional information and events in promoting breast screening for hard to reach groups e.g. disabilities, Black and Ethnic Minority Communities.

10. Target lower uptake practices for breast screening; to drive uptake up and to increase the number of people who attend.

11. Supporting the Programme Manager/Office Manager to maintain an accurate recording system to monitor performance, to demonstrate trends and to analyse information in compiling detailed reports.



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