Cancer Screening Care Coordinator

1 week ago


Leeds, United Kingdom South & East Leeds GP Group Full time

We are looking to recruit a Cancer Care Coordinator, for the Beeston Primary Care Networks:
**Main duties of the job**

The post holder will develop positive working relationships with the Cancer Screening Champions in the Beeston Primary Care Network. They will work with them to develop strategies that maximise opportunities to increase participation in cancer screening whilst avoiding duplication of work. The post holder will share learning and good practice across the GP Practices within their PCN as well as with Cancer Care Coordinators in other Primary Care Networks.

The Post holder will act as a point of contact on the three national screening programmes; bowel, cervical and breast and will identify guidance and support to their practices on all matters relating to cancer screening.

**About us**

South and East Leeds GP Group provide hosted employment services, HR and financial support to 9 Primary Care Networks in Leeds. In addition to supporting our PCNs to recruit staff, we support our employees by offering a range of employee benefits including staff discount, salary sacrifice schemes and an employee assistance programme in addition to our comprehensive Occupational Health service.

The PCNs is located in one of the most deprived areas of Leeds and therefore this presents a fantastic opportunity to positively impact on the lives of some of the more disadvantaged people in the population we serve.

Beeston PCN has a population of 46,282 and has 4 member GP Practices. Leeds City Medical Practice, City View Medical Practice, Oakley Surgery and Beeston Village Surgery.

**Job description**

**Job responsibilities**

Working with all GP Practices within the Primary Care Network (PCN) the post holder will take a lead on implementing a PCN strategy and plan to increase cancer screening rates across the three national screening programmes bowel, cervical and breast. The post holder will work closely with a range of partners to support the successful implementation of this strategy and deliver sustainable improvements to the rate of cancer screening uptake across their PCN patient cohort.

Using available guidance and resources, interpretation of data, innovative approaches and local partner knowledge, the post holder will oversee an increase in screening rates by:

- supporting practices to improve screening uptake amongst those who have not responded to bowel or cervical screening invitations
- promoting strategies that encourage take up of breast cancer screening
- identifying hard to reach population groups and developing specific interventions aimed at targeting those identified groups

The post holder will develop positive working relationships with the Cancer Screening Champions in their PCNs. They will work with the Cancer Screening Champions to develop strategies that maximise opportunities to increase participation in cancer screening whilst avoiding duplication of work.

The post holder will share learning and good practice across the GP Practices within their PCN as well as with Cancer Care Coordinators in other PCNs.

The post holder shall act as a point of contact on the three national cancer screening programmes and will identify guidance and support to their Practices on all matters relating to cancer screening.

Job Focus

Priority focus:

- Through the utilisation of data and liaison with the Practice Cancer Screening Champions, develop a thorough and live picture of the Practice patient cohort.
- Support Practices to understand variation at a Practice level and seek to understand why variations exist
- Using available guidance and resources, develop innovative strategies to:

- increase bowel and cervical screening uptake by 5% amongst those who have previously not attended.
- encourage uptake of breast screening when rounds are due within Practices within the PCN.
- Identify who the data is showing are the hard-to-reach population groups within each Practice.
- agree with each Practice an area of focus within their hard-to-reach groups.
- utilise existing research and conduct PCN level work to establish if there are any specific reasons why these groups might not be engaging.
- support Practices to develop strategies to increase screening uptake by 5% within this patient cohort.
- support Practices to utilise available resources to tailor approaches to target identified groups.

Training and development:

- Identify training and development needs within the PCN; this may include the use of skills audit etc.
- Identify gaps in currently available training provision and work with line manager and other Cancer Care Coordinators to source training to cover these gaps.
- Act as a point of contact for the three national cancer screening programmes, able to share knowledge where appropriate within the PCN.

Community Partnerships:

- Develop community partnerships appropriate to Practice patient cohort e.g. links with BAME community groups.
- Work with Local Care Partnership to represent the



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