Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Screening Practitioner

Transformation Unit; East Midlands; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Flexible working options

Gym membership discount

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Job summary

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Specialist Screening Practitioner to join the South Derbyshire Bowel Cancer Screening Centre, based at Royal Derby Hospital. The role involves working across two sites within a supportive team, with potential evening and weekend shifts.

The successful candidate will have extensive post-registration nursing experience, with endoscopy/gastroenterology knowledge preferable, and will complete the SSP course within the

Qualifications

• Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of specialist nursing care.
• Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients and colleagues, including breaking significant news.
• Maintain accurate written and electronic records.

Responsibilities

• Conduct nurse-led clinics and colonoscopy sessions.
• Process histology outcomes and provide results including cancer diagnosis.
• Support patients throughout the screening process and engage in health promotion.
• Travel between Derby and Burton as needed to enable smooth running of colonoscopy lists.
• Work across both sites and participate in a rota that includes some evenings and weekend shifts.

Skills

Communication skills

Assessment

Planning

Evaluation

Documentation

Education

Registered Nurse with substantial post registration experience

Job description

Main area Bowel Cancer Screening Grade Band 6 Contract 1 X Permanent and 1 X Fixed Term (12 months) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 320-MED-2008

Employer University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Derby Hospital Town Derby Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 21/10/2026

Band 6

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

With over 14,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.

As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

Armed Forces and Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme

To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities. This commitment is to guarantee an interview for any candidate that has disclosed a disability under the Equality Act 2010 and who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

If you are blind or visually impaired and require application material in an alternative format- such as Braille, large print, audio or accessible electronic formats oryou require support/adjustments with your application please contact the recruitment team on 01332 788466

The Trust is proud to be a signatory of the Care Leavers Covenant and is committed to supporting care-experienced people into employment.

Applicants who identify as a care leaver and who meet the essential criteria for the role, as detailed in the person specification, will be guaranteed an interview.

Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for;

Job overview

1 X Permanent and 1 X Fixed Term (12 months)

We have two Band 6 Specialist Screening Practitioner (SSP) vacancies within South Derbyshire Bowel Cancer Screening Centre (SDBCSC), based at Royal Derby Hospital.

As a successful applicant, you will become part of a friendly, supportive team that has developed excellent working relationships with endoscopy and cancer services across both Royal Derby Hospital and Queen's Hospital Burton.

The SDBCSC has been providing high-quality bowel cancer screening to the local population for over 19 years. The service covers a population of more than 600,000 people across South Derbyshire and East Staffordshire, operating from two screening sites. We are proud of the outstanding, patient‑centred care we provide and our commitment to delivering an excellent screening experience for all patients. The role provides the opportunity to work in a flexible, autonomous, and both demanding and rewarding environment.

The successful candidates will be required to work across both sites and participate in a rota that includes some evening and weekend shifts.

Applicants should have a minimum of five years' post-registration experience, ideally with an endoscopy and/or gastrointestinal background. Within the first year of appointment, successful candidates will be required to undertake and successfully complete the SSP course at either Liverpool John Moores University or the University of Plymouth.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic team player. The role is varied and ranges from conducting nurse led clinics, attending colonoscopy sessions, processing histology outcomes and providing results including cancer diagnosis to supporting patients throughout the screening process and engaging in health promotion.

Previous experience and knowledge in one of the following areas is essential screening, gastroenterology, endoscopy, colorectal, pre-assessment or oncology.

You must have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate sensitive and complex information to both patients and colleagues, including breaking significant news. The post holder will have a shared responsibility to meet the Trust, bowel cancer screening programme (BCSP), and national targets, be able to prioritise and manage their own workload and work as a team to ensure the smooth running of the service.

South Derbyshire BCSP is based at Royal Derby Hospital but the post holder will be required to travel to another site in Burton when necessary. The ability to travel between Derby and Burton to enable the smooth running and start times of colonoscopy lists is essential.

The service runs mainly between the hours of 8:00am to 6:00pm but the post holder should be flexible as later start and finish times may be required to cover clinical activity of the programme.

1 X Permanent and 1 X Fixed Term (12 months) are available

Closing date of applications: 7 October 2026

Interview date: 21 October 2026

This position is offered as a secondment. Accordingly, you are required to consult with your manager and obtain approval prior to submitting your application.

Working for our organisation

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

UHDB is committed to fair and transparent recruitment. We welcome authentic applications that reflect your own skills, experience and motivations for the role. While we understand that candidates may use AI tools for grammar, formatting or accessibility purposes, applications that appear to be substantially AI‑generated may be subject to additional review. If this applies to your submission, we will let you know and may ask for clarification. Please ensure your application accurately represents your experience and is written in your own words.

Important visa information: Due to UK Home Office immigration rule changes effective from 22 July 2025, applicants sponsored under Occupation Code 6131 (Nursing Auxiliaries and Assistants) may not be eligible to bring dependants under the Skilled Worker route if their Certificate of Sponsorship is issued on or after this date. Applicants are responsible for understanding how these rules apply to their individual circumstances. The Trust cannot provide immigration advice. Further information is available on the Skilled Worker visa: Your partner and children - GOV.UK

Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with substantial post registration experience.

Experience

• Experience of assessing patients in the clinical area
• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues relating to Bowel Cancer Screening
• Relevant clinical experience and knowledge of lower GI disease including endoscopic or radiological investigations

Skills

• 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
• Ability to maintain accurate written and electronic records.

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

At UHDB , we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.

For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.

Why don’t you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what’s possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.

We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.

Most of our posts are subject to a DBS check, however having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from obtaining a position. Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

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UHDB is committed to fair and transparent recruitment. We welcome authentic applications that reflect your own skills, experience and motivations for the role. While we understand that candidates may use AI tools for grammar, formatting or accessibility purposes, applications that appear to be substantially AI‑generated may be subject to additional review. If this applies to your submission, we will let you know and may ask for clarification. Please ensure your application accurately represents your experience and is written in your own words.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.