Specialist Screening Practitioner

5 months ago


Lincoln, United Kingdom United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

We are looking for additional team members to join our established group of Specialist Screening Practitioners for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.

The post is full time (37.5 Hours) band 6, the base site can be discussed at interview. All applicants will need to be computer literate as there is a high amount of IT work needed.

You will need to have mature communication skills and a sound clinical background in order to act as the patient advocate when required. You will need to be self motivated and enjoy working autonomously as well as being part of a team.

The working hours will be discussed at interview but all SSPs will be required to be available Monday - Sunday with some evening work.

To provide the highest standard of care for participants of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. This includes Bowel Scope and FOBt/FIT screening.

The post is a pan Trust post and will involve work at all 4 ULHT sites.

Specialist Screening Practitioners will be the first point of contact for participants with a positive faecal occult blood test/faecal immunochemical test and will guide them through the screening journey. This will include positive assessment clinics during which you would be expected to discuss options with patients, assess fitness for colonoscopy, attend colonoscopy, and manage the results handling process and referral to the multi-disciplinary team if appropriate.

You will also attend endoscopy lists and support both patients and endoscopy staff. You will be expected to record data and outcomes of all of the above on the Bowel Screening IT system (BCSS).

The post holder will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team across the Trust and in close collaboration with the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) Hub in Nottingham, members of the BCSP senior management team, Health Promotion services, national and regional Quality Assurance teams, primary care and NHS England, to provide a coordinated and seamless screening service.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

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