Specialist Screening Practitioner

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Are you looking for a career opportunity in a rewarding skilled Specialist Screening Practitioner nursing role (SSP) based at Manchester Royal Infirmary? Our SSP's are highly skilled nurse practitioners who have the responsibility to ensure that all patients who are eligible for bowel cancer screening have a seamless journey throughout the bowel screening pathway.

Manchester BCSP is expanding to include individuals aged 50-59 years, and patients with Lynch Syndrome who require surveillance colonoscopy, so we are looking to recruit committed, reliable, and experienced nurses that we will support in developing into our forward-thinking Specialist Screening Nurse Practitioner team.

Applicants should be aware that face-to-face patient contact is currently limited as our patients are offered telephone assessment appointments in the first instance. You will, however, see patients who require subsequent face-to-face assessment appointments at GP surgeries and hospital sites across Greater Manchester, and when they attend their colonoscopy appointments. Our patient cohort covers Central and South Manchester, Trafford, Stockport, and Tameside. It is therefore essential that you own a car and have a current full UK driving license with business cover, and you must confirm that you meet these criteria in the supporting information on the application form.

As an SSP, you will be making decisions based on your clinical assessments during the initial Specialist Screening Practitioner Positive Assessment clinics and liaising with different disciplines and specialties to ensure that patients are prepared and booked for their tests in a safe and efficient manner.

Please see the ‘Overview of the SSP role’ attachment under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading for more details about the SSP role.

Support and Education

Education is provided, and you will be expected to successfully complete the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Specialist Screening Practitioner Course at Liverpool John Moore’s University. Completion of this course within 2 years of being in post is mandatory and must be passed successfully for you to continue working within the programme.

Your competency within the role will be assessed before you are able to work autonomously, and this is a requirement for the John Moore’s course. You will be supporting patients through their pathway, informing them of their results and inputting information onto BCSS. Having attention to detail and being comfortable with IT systems is vital.

Due to clinics currently being telephone based, there may also be opportunities to work from home, subject to service need, risk assessments being completed, and competencies being achieved.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Joanne Parker
Job title: Lead Specialist Screening Practitioner
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 0161 276 4560
BCSP Team: 0161 701 8542