Specialist Screening Practitioner

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is recruiting a Specialist Screening Practitioner (SSP) into our nurse-led Bowel Cancer Screening service. The role involves coordinating care, running nurse-led assessment clinics, arranging colonoscopies, and supporting screening endoscopy lists across UCLH, Whittington and Chase Farm Hospitals.

You will join a team of SSPs, contribute to early cancer diagnosis, and ensure accurate data entry for audit and QA purposes.

Qualifications

• Experience of Endoscopy or GI nursing is desirable.
• Full induction programme and mentor on start.
• Ability to undertake clinics and support screening endoscopy lists when trained.
• Excellent communication and data entry to local and national databases.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care and support screening endoscopy lists across sites.
• Attend colonoscopy sessions and discuss outcomes with patients.
• Record activity on local and national databases for audit and QA purposes.

Skills

Endoscopy experience

GI nursing

Communication skills

Job description

UCLH is looking to recruit a Specialist Screening Practitioner (SSP) into our nurse-led Bowel Cancer Screening (BCS) service.

You will work alongside other SSP’s providing care for participants of the screening programme. This is an opportunity for someone with a particular interest in bowel cancer and/or screening who would like experience in an expanded nursing role.

Experience of Endoscopy or GI nursing is desirable. You will have a full induction programme and assigned a mentor when you start to support your integration into the team, to enable you to undertake clinics and support the screening endoscopy lists once trained.

Due to the expansion of our service, it is an exciting time to join us and play a leading role in the earlier diagnosis of bowel cancer, based at UCLH but working across NCL, supporting bowel cancer screening lists at UCLH, Whittington Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital.

The successful candidate will join a team of Specialist Screening Practitioners responsible for providing care for patients participating in the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. This involves initial nurse-led assessment clinics: arrangement of colonoscopies for patients within designated Bowel Screening colonoscopy sessions, and to attend colonoscopy with them. They will provide clinics to discuss colonoscopy outcomes, including cancer diagnoses. Our nurses are the patient advocate, providing the information necessary to ensure that patients are able to make informed choices at all stages of the screening process. Our team of SSPs are responsible for ensuring that all activity is recorded on both local and national databases for audit and quality assurance purposes.

The role will involve coordinating care, working autonomously and addressing the needs of individuals that arise. It will also entail detailed and accurate data entry into local and national databases. The post holder will require excellent communication skills and a flexible approach to their work.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Eleanor Knights Job title: Matron Email address: [e-mail]