Band 6 Specialist Screening Practitioner (SSP)

We are looking to appoint a full time Specialist Screening Practitioner to join our team, who will play a key role in supporting patients through the screening process.

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You will manage the delivery of nurse-led clinics and colonoscopy lists at BHRUT. You will be acting as the individuals' advocate, supporting them and their family to make informed choices about their screening examination, through all stages of the screening programme, assessing individuals, making decisions based on the outcomes of the assessment and planning their pathway.

You will be expected to work with our Health Improvement Specialist to help improve uptake to Bowel Cancer Screening. Unless you already possess the mandatory Specialist Screening Practitioner's certificate, you will be required to undertake this course as soon as possible.

The post holder will be working within the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) as part of a team based at Queen's Hospital and King George Hospital. They will provide specialist nursing support assessing patients and co-ordinating individualised care on a Bowel Cancer Screening pathway, meeting emotional, physical and psychological needs.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.