Senior Specialist Screening Practitioner

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust; Greenhill; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Specialist Screening Practitioner to deliver a comprehensive bowel cancer screening service within a multidisciplinary team. The role includes working autonomously and developing patient pathways across the Bowel Cancer Screening Centre (BCSC) and satellite units.

You will manage junior SSPs, Screening Practitioners and Assistant Screening Practitioners, provide expert guidance, participate in appraisals, and adapt to

Qualifications

• Experience as Specialist Screening Practitioner in bowel cancer screening program.
• Completion of the national mandated SSP course (level 6 or 7).
• Ability to work in a diverse team and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a comprehensive bowel cancer screening service.
• Work autonomously and collaborate across professional boundaries.
• Develop patient pathways and nursing service within the Bowel Cancer Screening Centre (BCSC).
• Provide day-to-day management of SSPs, SPs, and ASPs, including appraisals and 1-1 meetings.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Evidence-based practice

Education

SSP course level 6/7

Job description

The post holder is responsible, as part of a multidisciplinary clinical team, for delivering a comprehensive bowel cancer screening service. The post holder will need to work autonomously and seek collaborative relationships with others across and within professional boundaries, develop patient pathways and be responsible for developing thenursing service within the Bowel Cancer Screening Centre (BCSC). The role will involve working collaboratively with a team of SSP's and associated practitioners and personnel; to provide specialist, high quality, expert nursing care and support for patients and their carers on the Bowel Cancer Screening (BCS) pathway. They are expected to provide expert knowledge and advice in their own specialist area, ensuring maintenance of clinical excellence underpinned by evidence-based practice. This may be in one or more location (including other endoscopy units in satellite screening locations) to ensure delivery of the screening service in these areas, and may include breakfast/ evening/ weekend working in order to offer flexibility to the screening populations. The post holder will provide day to day management of junior SpecialistScreening Practitioners (SSP), Screening Practitioners (SP), and Assistant Screening Practitioners (ASP's), including undertaking appraisals and 1-1 meetings for these staff.

Senior SSP's must be experienced SSP's within the bowel cancer screening programme (either currently or previously) who have shown professional & personal development; and who have completed and passed 'the national mandated SSP course' at either level 6 or 7. It is essential that the post holder can work within a diverse team and community and present exemplary communication skills.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people. We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.