Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Screening Practitioner

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Specialist Screening Practitioner to support patients through the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. The role involves direct patient care, information provision, and coordination across screening pathways.

You will work across Merseyside and Cheshire, travel between sites, and maintain accurate records in the BCSP database. The post requires a full driving license, flexibility for start/finish times, and demonstrable experience

Qualifications

• Provide advice and information to screening centre contacts.
• Deliver care to patients identified by the screening programme.
• Use specialist communication to break bad news and provide psychological support.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely access to screening colonoscopy or alternatives.
• Link with local MDTs for timely presentation and transfer.
• Populate and maintain the BCSP local database; data collection and QA.
• Follow-up of patients at 30 days; document care and assessments.
• Support flexible working and accommodate varying shifts.

Skills

Communication skills

Driving

IT skills

Teaching and assessing

Autonomy

Education

Post-registration qualification

Tools

Word processing

Spreadsheets

Job description

The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme is a world first amongst screening programmes and the first to offer screening to both men and women. The Merseyside and North Cheshire Programme commenced in 2006 and due to continued development and expansion of the service we are looking to appoint full time Specialist Screening Practitioners who will play a key role in supporting patients through the screening process. We cover a population of almost 1.1 million people. As part of the national programme all men & women aged 50-74 are offered to take part in 2 yearly screening., Merseyside & North Cheshire BCSP is based at Aintree Hospital but the post holder will be required to travel to other sites across the Merseyside and Cheshire region as necessary. Full driving license and access to own car is essential. The service runs from 8:30am to 4:30pm but the post holder should be flexible as later start and finish times may be required to cover clinical activity of the programme.,

• Provide advice, information and support for those making direct contact with the screening centre
• Be responsible for care delivery to patients identified by the screening programme and will meet the needs of patients arising as a result of:
  + Having been called to participate in screening
  + Having been identified as positive on screening
  + Needing to be assessed as fit to undertake screening colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic investigations
  + Needing to be able to make informed decisions prior undergoing screening colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic interventions
  + Having been identified as requiring further intervention, treatment, surveillance follow-up or discharge
• To use specialist knowledge and advanced communication skills with patients and carers when breaking bad news and providing psychological support on diagnosis, treatment and symptom management
• Ensure timely access to screening colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic intervention and seamless transition to agreed pathways in primary, secondary, tertiary or out-patient care settings, during all stages of the screening pathway
• To establish effective links with local colorectal cancer multi-disciplinary teams in order to ensure that when cancer is detected, there is timely presentation and transfer of patients to the multi-disciplinary team
• Populate and maintain the BCSP local database
• Participate in ongoing data collection and quality assurance, service feedback and audit with particular responsibility for the follow-up of patients at 30 days
• Perform comprehensive assessment of patient needs, plan, implement and evaluate care according to BCSP
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records
• Work collaboratively with other professionals and organisations to ensure patient needs are met, especially in relation to referrals to local MDTs, The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
• The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £25.70 (standard disclosure) or £46.70 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

Desirable criteria

• Post-registration qualification in speciality or related field
• Teaching and assessing, Supportive of colleagues
• Well motivated
• Able to drive and travel between sites.
• 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.
• Able to present written information in a logical manner.
• Basic IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets
• Able to manage own workload and work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting, Broad range of clinical experience with specific experience in speciality
• Participated in service development and implementation of change. Application of teaching within the work area
• Evidence of teaching/mentoring within the work area, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.