Cervical Screening Provider Lead

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider is seeking a Cervical Screening Provider Lead to oversee the NHS Cervical Screening Programme. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with guidelines, monitoring service quality, and managing communications within the programme. Ideal candidates will have proven experience and advanced knowledge of NHSCSP. This role is part-time (7.5 to 8 hours per week) and can be remote but requires accessibility for site visits.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Flexible working options

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Demonstrates a commitment to continuing education and training.
• Experience in quality assurance, performance monitoring, and auditing.

Responsibilities

• Act as centre for communications about the NHS Cervical screening programme.
• Ensure compliance with NHS Cervical Screening Programme guidelines.
• Monitor the quality and effectiveness of services provided.

Skills

Proven experience at a senior level

Advanced knowledge of NHSCSP guidelines

Understanding of clinical governance

Education

Registration with the relevant professional body

Job description

Overview

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Role

Cervical Screening Provider Lead

The closing date is 01 October 2025

We are looking for an enthusiastic and pro-active Cervical Screening Provider Lead who will oversee and co-ordinate the quality and effectiveness of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme (NHSCSP) within East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

You will be responsible for maintaining close working relationships between all parts of the Trust's cervical screening activities and stakeholders. You should also ensure close working relationships are maintained with other CSPLs across the screening pathway to provide continuity across the programme.

Persons likely to be able to fulfil the role are:

• Consultant cellular pathologists
• Non-training grade experienced senior colposcopists or consultant colposcopists
• Laboratory lead biomedical scientists (BMS) or consultant BMS
• Senior nurse colposcopists or lead colposcopy nurses

This post is 7.5 hours per week (or 8 hours if medical), role can be remote but successful candidate must be accessible to site for QA visits.

If you have are kind, innovative, highly experienced lead, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To act as the centre for communications about the NHS Cervical screening programme; coordinating relevant histology and colposcopy and advising Trust management on cervical screening matters

To ensure that laboratory and colposcopy performance complies with NHS Cervical Screening Programme guidelines and standards and take appropriate action where they do not. This includes ensuring that appropriate links are maintained between general practices, the laboratory and colposcopy clinic/clinics and that suitable, timely treatment is available for women with cervical cytology abnormalities.

To monitor the quality and effectiveness of the services provided by ESNEFT according to NHSCSP standards and guidelines and take appropriate action to address any shortfalls or escalate appropriately.

To ensure that there is a timely collection and submission of data for national mandatory statistical returns and data for routine and ad hoc programme monitoring for NHS England commissioners, SQAS and other organisations.

To review data relating to the service provided by ESNEFT and monitor performance against both nationally and locally agreed standards.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what bws widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration with the relevant professional body
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuing education and training.

Experience

• Proven experience at a senior level in a suitable role within the NHSCSP e.g. Consultant Cellular Pathologist, non-training grade senior Colposcopist, Consultant Colposcopist, Laboratory lead Biomedical Scientist, Consultant Biomedical Scientist, senior Nurse Colposcopist, lead Colposcopy Nurse.
• Advanced knowledge of NHSCSP guidelines and pathways
• Detailed knowledge of NHSCSP policies and guidelines
• Experience of quality assurance, performance monitoring and other benchmarking standards
• Understanding of clinical governance, clinical audit and achieving quality targets

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.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum pro rata