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Job summary

Main area
Bowel cancer Screening
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
287-RMED-213-24
Employer
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Liverpool Hospital
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/08/2024 23:59

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Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Practitioner

Band 6

Job overview

Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Screening Practitioner (Royal Liverpool Hospital)
Band 6
Permanent
37.5 Hours per week

  • To play a pivotal role in supporting the BCSP by:
  • Working collaboratively with the Programme Hub
  • As part of the team, co-ordinating and providing care from the screening centre to address the needs of individuals arising as a consequence of the screening programme
  • As part of the team, co-ordination of health promotion activities by all sections of the society

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a  Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Screening Practitioner to join the team working in the Liverpool and Wirral Bowel Screening Centre (Royal  Hospital site.)

You will be dynamic, highly motivated and flexible in your approach to work. You will be responsible for delivering the highest quality of care to patients identified by the screening programme and will meet the needs of these patients, including assessment for endoscopic procedures, delivery of results and onward referral as required. You will need to be able to make clinically informed decisions to manage patients along the screening pathway and follow them up afterwards.

RGN registered with the NMC, ability and willingness to work flexible hours and be able to travel between the centres associated sites across the region as required by the job role. Previous endoscopic, gastroenterological or bowel cancer screening experience is desirable but not essential.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • 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
  • Having taken part in the lynch programme
  • 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.
  • Establish links with the local Lynch mulitdisciplinary teams inoder to manage these corhort of patients effectively
  • 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

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • RGN
  • Diploma
  • Current full UK driving licence holder
Desirable criteria
  • Post-registration qualification in speciality or related field
  • Teaching and assessing

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 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

Skills

Essential criteria
  • 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.
  • Knowledge of professional and NHS issues.
  • Assertive
  • Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting

Other

Essential criteria
  • Supportive of colleagues
  • Well motivated
  • Able to drive and travel between sites.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleInvestors in PeopleArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident committedStep into health

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mercy Mbuyongha
Job title
Lead Specialist Screening Practitioner
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 706 4980
Additional information

For further information or informal discussion about this post please contact: Mercy Mbuyongha,  Lead Specialist Screening Practitioner on 0151 706 4980

 

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