Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Practitioner

Liverpool University Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool is seeking a Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Screening Practitioner (Band 6) on a permanent 37.5 hour contract at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.

You will work with the BCSP programme hub to coordinate care from the screening centre, deliver results and referrals, and support health promotion across the community while travelling between associated sites as required.

Qualifications

• RGN registered with the NMC
• Current full UK driving licence
• Post-registration qualification in speciality or related field
• Teaching and assessing

Responsibilities

• Provide advice, information and support for those making direct contact with the screening centre
• Be responsible for care delivery to patients identified by the screening programme and meet their needs along the screening pathway
• Use specialist knowledge and advanced communication skills with patients and carers when breaking bad news and providing psychological support
• Ensure timely access to screening colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic intervention and seamless transition to agreed pathways
• Establish links with local colorectal cancer MDTs to ensure timely presentation and transfer of patients
• Populate and maintain the BCSP local database
• Participate in ongoing data collection and quality assurance, service feedback and audit
• Perform comprehensive assessment of patient needs, plan, implement and evaluate care
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records
• Work collaboratively with other professionals and organisations to ensure patient needs are met

Skills

RGN

Driving licence

Post-registration qualification

Teaching and assessing

Job description

Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Practitioner

Company: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job ID: C9287-26-1737

Job summary

Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Screening Practitioner (Royal Liverpool Hospital) Band 6 Permanent 37.5 Hours per week To play a pivotal role in supporting the BCSP by:

• Working collaboratively with the Programme Hub
• As part of the team, co-ordinating and providing care from the screening centre to address the needs of individuals arising as a consequence of the screening programme
• As part of the team, co-ordination of health promotion activities by all sections of the society

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Screening Practitioner to join the team working in the Liverpool and Wirral Bowel Screening Centre (Royal Hospital site.)

You will be dynamic, highly motivated and flexible in your approach to work. You will be responsible for delivering the highest quality of care to patients identified by the screening programme and will meet the needs of these patients, including assessment for endoscopic procedures, delivery of results and onward referral as required. You will need to be able to make clinically informed decisions to manage patients along the screening pathway and follow them up afterwards.

RGN registered with the NMC, ability and willingness to work flexible hours and be able to travel between the centres associated sites across the region as required by the job role. Previous endoscopic, gastroenterological or bowel cancer screening experience is desirable but not essential.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital and Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

Details

Date posted: 19 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 287-RMED-425-26

Job locations: Royal Liverpool Hospital, Mount Vernon Street, Liverpool, L7 8YE, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Provide advice, information and support for those making direct contact with the screening centre
• Be responsible for care delivery to patients identified by the screening programme and will meet the needs of patients arising as a result of: having been called to participate in screening; having been identified as positive on screening; having taken part in the Lynch programme; needing to be assessed as fit to undertake screening colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic investigations; needing to be able to make informed decisions prior to undergoing screening colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic interventions; having been identified as requiring further intervention, treatment, surveillance follow-up or discharge
• To use specialist knowledge and advanced communication skills with patients and carers when breaking bad news and providing psychological support on diagnosis, treatment and symptom management
• Ensure timely access to screening colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic intervention and seamless transition to agreed pathways in primary, secondary, tertiary or out-patient care settings, during all stages of the screening pathway
• To establish effective links with local colorectal cancer multi-disciplinary teams in order to ensure that when cancer is detected, there is timely presentation and transfer of patients to the multi-disciplinary team
• Establish links with the local Lynch multidisciplinary teams in order to manage this cohort of patients effectively
• Populate and maintain the BCSP local database
• Participate in ongoing data collection and quality assurance, service feedback and audit with particular responsibility for the follow-up of patients at 30 days
• Perform comprehensive assessment of patient needs, plan, implement and evaluate care according to BCSP
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records
• Work collaboratively with other professionals and organisations to ensure patient needs are met, especially in relation to referrals to local MDTs

Person Specification

Qualifications (Essential)

• RGN
• Current full UK driving licence holder
• Post-registration qualification in speciality or related field
• Teaching and assessing

Experience (Essential)

• Broad range of clinical experience with specific experience in speciality
• Participated in service development and implementation of change. Application of teaching within the work area

Skills (Essential)

• Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of specialist nursing care
• Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding
• Able to present written information in a logical manner
• Basic IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets
• Able to manage own workload and work with minimal supervision
• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues
• Assertive
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting
• Participated in service development and implementation of change

Other (Essential)

• Supportive of colleagues
• Well motivated
• Able to drive and travel between sites

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Royal Liverpool Hospital, Mount Vernon Street, Liverpool, L7 8YE, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact:

Lead Specialist Screening Practitioner, Mercy Mbuyongha, [e-mail], 01517064980

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