Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist PractitionerinLiverpoolinLiverpoolPUBLISHED WED 12 FEB 2025
Band 6: £37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum
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CANCER COLORECTAL CANCER MULTI-DISCIPLINARY NHS NMC
Opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care by supporting early detection and treatment of bowel cancer.
The role is highly collaborative, allowing for teamwork with various health professionals in the BCSP and local MDTs.
You will have the chance to utilize and develop advanced communication skills, particularly in providing support and delivering difficult news empathetically.
The position offers variety, with responsibilities ranging from health promotion to patient assessment and care coordination.
Flexibility in working hours and travel across various centers, providing a dynamic work environment.
Contributions to ongoing data collection, quality assurance, and service feedback promote continuous improvement in patient care.
Working in a well-established and reputable institution, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, adds prestige to the role and enhances professional development opportunities.
The Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Practitioner role at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust involves working at the Liverpool and Wirral Bowel Screening Centre. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in coordinating care for patients participating in the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP), ensuring quality service from the screening phase through to necessary interventions. Responsibilities include assessing patients, delivering results, facilitating referrals, and providing psychological support, particularly in sensitive situations such as breaking bad news.
Candidates should possess RGN registration and be flexible with working hours and travel requirements. While experience in endoscopy, gastroenterology, or bowel cancer screening is beneficial, it is not mandatory. Key tasks include maintaining patient records, participating in quality assurance and data collection, and establishing effective links with local multi-disciplinary teams to ensure patients receive timely and comprehensive care throughout their screening pathway.
Candidates should possess RGN registration and be flexible with working hours and travel requirements. While experience in endoscopy, gastroenterology, or bowel cancer screening is beneficial, it is not mandatory. Key tasks include maintaining patient records, participating in quality assurance and data collection, and establishing effective links with local multi-disciplinary teams to ensure patients receive timely and comprehensive care throughout their screening pathway.
Opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care by supporting early detection and treatment of bowel cancer.
The role is highly collaborative, allowing for teamwork with various health professionals in the BCSP and local MDTs.
You will have the chance to utilize and develop advanced communication skills, particularly in providing support and delivering difficult news empathetically.
The position offers variety, with responsibilities ranging from health promotion to patient assessment and care coordination.
Flexibility in working hours and travel across various centers, providing a dynamic work environment.
Contributions to ongoing data collection, quality assurance, and service feedback promote continuous improvement in patient care.
Working in a well-established and reputable institution, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, adds prestige to the role and enhances professional development opportunities.
Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Screening Practitioner (Royal Liverpool Hospital)Band 6Permanent 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
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.
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- 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 oralternative diagnostic investigations
- Needing to be able to make informed decisions prior undergoingscreening 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
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