BCSP Specialist Screening Practitioner

Job summary

We are recruiting for a BCSP Specialist Screening Practitioner who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This is an exciting time to join our team as we continue to age extend to deliver bowel cancer screening to those aged between 50-74. In addition to this, the programme takes responsibility for the surveillance of those with a diagnosis of Lynch syndrome surveillance.

You need to be motivated, enthusiastic individual who will help provide high standards of evidence-based care within this national programme.

Core hours would be 08:00am - 18:00 over three Hospital sites so travel between all sites will be necessary.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The BCSP Specialist Screening Practitioner will participate as a member of the nursing and multi-disciplinary team, providing high standards of evidence-based care for the National Bowel Cancer Screening programme here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.

You will work collaboratively with the screening hub and provide specialist advice, support, and continuity of patient care throughout the patient pathway from admission to discharge. You will provide and lead excellent Nurse led clinic to patients and their family/carers.

You will co-ordinate and ensure the efficient organisation of the screening service working within BCSP National and Trust guidelines and protocols.

You will also provide support and guidance on a day-to-day basis to the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Manager and Administrators.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.