Specialist Screening Practitioner - BCSP

Employer Northumbria Healthcare - NHS Foundation Trust
Site:
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum (Yearly)

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). This is the Northumbria Way.

What the Northumbria Way means for you
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• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds to care for our Trust family’s children, offering care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years with government funding options such as Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, community venues and people’s homes, including a specialist emergency care hospital and multiple general and community hospitals.

We lead in innovation and quality, including opening the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub and launching our Community Promise.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong, we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Note
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We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

We are seeking to appoint a committed and enthusiastic Specialist Screening Practitioner to join our team. Joining the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme offers the opportunity to make a tangible, life-changing impact every day. As an SSP you will be at the heart of a national programme proven to save lives through early detection and prevention of colorectal cancer.

SSPs play a vital role within the screening pathway, providing high-quality, patient-centred care from the point of referral through to diagnosis, treatment, and discharge. The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner following a probation period and will be responsible for the delivery of care to service users across the North of Tyne covering multiple sites of both Northumbria and Newcastle trusts.

The post will be based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle with an additional office at North Tyneside General Hospital.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Please note
, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

The post holder will act as the key point of contact for patients referred into the screening programme, coordinating their pathway, delivering specialist assessment, and providing expert clinical support and information. This includes undertaking nurse-led clinics, telephone assessments, patient education, and supporting individuals through often complex and sensitive decision-making processes.

The role requires excellent communication skills, sound clinical…