Cervical Screening Provider Lead

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Trust in East London is seeking a Cervical Screening Provider Lead (CSPL) to oversee the NHS Cervical Screening Programme. This senior role involves ensuring high-quality and effective screening services while improving outcomes for women. Responsibilities include performance monitoring, incident oversight, and coordinating with clinical teams. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in healthcare programs and a strong understanding of clinical governance. The position offers a salary ranging from £85,431 to £97,148 per annum.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme is essential.
• Understanding of clinical governance, quality assurance, and risk management is required.
• Knowledge of equality, equity, and population health considerations.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme.
• Coordinate quality and effectiveness of cervical screening services.
• Monitor performance and ensure compliance with national standards.

Skills

Experience in a healthcare programme

Experience across multi-site organisations

Performance management against KPIs

QA review experience

Report production for management

Supervisory experience

SOP development

Education

Degree level or equivalent experience

Postgraduate qualification or formal training

Job description

Barts Health NHS Trust is recruiting a Cervical Screening Provider Lead (CSPL) to provide senior leadership and oversight of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme across our Trust. This is a pivotal role supporting safe, effective and high quality screening services, improving outcomes for women across East London.

The post holder will provide assurance through performance monitoring, audit, incident oversight and structured reporting to Trust governance forums. A core responsibility includes ensuring registration and audit of all invasive cervical cancer cases and maintaining oversight of robust failsafe systems for referrals, results and follow up.

Working closely with clinical leads, commissioners and regional QA teams, you will coordinate Trust responses to SQAS activity, embed learning from incidents, and support the development of clear SOPs and quality management systems.

This role requires excellent leadership, credibility, and the ability to influence across professional and organisational boundaries in a complex multi site environment.

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Astha Bajoria ([e-mail]) to arrange a discussion with Rachael Corser, Group Chief Nurse.

Main duties of the job

The cervical screening provider lead (CSPL) is a senior member of staff formally appointed within an organisation providing cervical screening services.

The role is to oversee and coordinate the quality and effectiveness of the NHS Cervical screening programme services provided within the organisation. Overall responsibility remains with the clinical leads. CSPLs play a vital role in the audit of invasive cervical cancers and in ensuring that the individual elements of the local programme work together to provide the best possible services and outcomes for women

The post holder must have an in-depth knowledge of the Cervical Screening programme.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which ourWeCarevalues and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by ourWeCarevalues and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support aninclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Job responsibilities

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledgerequired. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Experience

• Experience working in a healthcare programme and in the national cervical screening programme
• Experience of working across multi-site or complex provider organisations
• Experience of performance management against national standards and KPIs
• Experience of QA review
• Experience of producing reports for senior management, boards, or commissioners
• Experience in a supervisory position
• Experience of developing or implementing SOPs or quality management systems

Knowledge

• Has experience and in-depth knowledge of the NHS Cervical screening Programme
• Knowledge of clinical governance, quality assurance, and risk management within NHS programmes
• Understanding of equality, equity and population health considerations within screening programmes

Qualifications

• Degree level or equivalent experience
• Postgraduate qualification or formal training in quality improvement, public health, health service management, or clinical governance

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.

£85,431 to £97,148 a yearper annum inc pro rata