• This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has a particular interest in bowel cancer and would like to expand their nursing role. This is a secondment post for 12 months.
• The South West London Bowel Cancer Screening Centre (SWLBCSC) is recruiting a Band 6 Specialist Screening Practitioner (SSP) for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP).
• The Bowel Cancer Screening Programme is continuously expanding, bringing new challenges, and exciting changes to the programme.
• The role of the Specialist Screening Practitioner is diverse and involves providing autonomous care to individuals who participate in the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, offering guidance, support, and clinical knowledge at each step of the patients BCSP journey.

Main duties of the job

• This role offers the opportunity to work alongside experienced Specialist Screening Practitioners (SSPs) and Assistant Screening & Pre-Admission Practitioners (ASPPs), providing support in all aspects of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
• Candidates are expected to have a minimum of 3 years post registration experience, including, but not limited to, some Endoscopy or lower GI nursing background.
• 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 patients arising as a results of
• Being called to participate in screening.
• Requiring assessment to be fit to undertake screening colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic interventions.
• Needing to be able to make informed decisions prior to undergoing screening colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic interventions.
• Ensure timely access throughout the screening pathway to colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic intervention and seamless transition to agreed pathways in primary, secondary and tertiary care settings.
• Establish effective links with the local multidisciplinary teams to ensure that where cancer is detected there is a timely presentation and transfer of patients to the MDT.
• Complete patient records for the screening services to include data on treatment, outcomes and staging provided by the MDT.

About us

We are one of the country's largest and busiest acute NHS Trusts, serving a diverse population of more than 3.5 million people across south London and beyond.

Our main hospital site in Tooting and other healthcare locations provide a modern, dynamic, caring environment for excellent clinical care, education and research.

We employ around 9,000 dedicated staff across more than 40 different services and specialties. Every day, more than 2,000 patients attend our sites, mainly for outpatient appointments, elective surgery, and in our Emergency Department, made famous as the home of '24 Hours in A& E'.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Aware of national agenda and changes to improve cancer services including the Bowel Cancer Screening Service
• Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management, valid consent and withdrawal of consent
• Knowledge of equality and diversity

Desirable

• Lower gastro-intestinal diseases
• Benign and malignant GI cancer presentation and disease progression
• GI endoscopy and radiological investigations/treatment for GI cancer
• Surgical oncology procedures for treatment of GI cancer

Skills

Essential

• Patient examination and history taking
• Presentation skills
• IT skills
• Ability to organised and prioritise own workload
• Ability to supervise others

Desirable

• Advanced patient examination and history taking
• Basic counselling skills
• Accessing and entering electronic data in clinical systems

Other

Essential

• Demonstrates the ability to organise self and team members
• Demonstrates a history of continuing professional development
• Demonstrates positive attitudes towards cancer screening

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Registered Health Care Professional

Desirable

• Degree

Experience

Essential

• Years post registration Experience
• Evidence of managing a caseload or care group in a clinical setting with multidisciplinary working
• Evidence of having worked with patients from at least one of the following groups: lower GI disease or cancer
• Evidence of participation in quality assurance, audit and research

Desirable

• Evidence of having been responsible for day to day supervision or co-ordination of staff in a clinical setting
• Evidence of providing written and verbal communications to consultants and GPs as an integral part of caseload responsibilities
• Working with patients with lower GI cancers
• Experience of conducting audit/research and change in practice

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road

London

SW170QT

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