Specialist Screening Practitioner - Bowel Cancer Screening

This is an exciting opportunity for individuals who wish to develop and enhance specialised skills in gastrointestinal Nursing. There are many opportunities in the SSP role to further professional and personnel development.
This is being offered as a secondment to cover Maternity leave. Training & support will be provided to develop your autonomous practitioner skills which will support your career development within GI Nursing.
The Specialist Screening Practitioner (SSP) will be expected to exhibit specific skills in the management of disorders of the lower gastrointestinal tract arising from the bowel cancer screening programme. This will include undertaking assessment, education and counselling wherever appropriate.
The post holder will work closely with the Lead SSP, SSP's, endoscopy team, colorectal team, pathology, radiology and cancer services in the trust and have a clinical commitment to the bowel cancer screening centre.
The post holder will be responsible for providing the SSP/ nursing contribution within the bowel cancer screening service in accordance with local and national specifications. This maybe in one or more locations and will include weekends on rotation to ensure full service flexibility to the screening populations.

Main duties of the job
The role involves the ability to integrate, communicate, support and be a role model to a wide multi-disciplinary group in a centre of excellence. Additional language skills are useful but not essential.
The screening centre is currently open Monday to Friday 8am-6pm (Saturday ad hoc depending on service requirements).
This post is initially for 12 months to cover Maternity leave but there maybe the potential opportunity for a substantive post.
There is access, support and requirements to attend and pass national training and education courses to ensure competency is achieved and thus optimal working as an SSP.
The Specialist Screening Practitioner (SSP) will be expected to exhibit specific skills in the management of disorders of the lower gastrointestinal tract arising from the bowel cancer screening programme. This will include undertaking assessment, education and counselling wherever appropriate.
The post holder will work closely with the Lead SSP, SSP's, endoscopy team, colorectal team, pathology, radiology and cancer services in the trust and have a clinical commitment to the bowel cancer screening centre.
The post holder will be responsible for providing the SSP/ nursing contribution within the bowel cancer screening service in accordance with local and national specifications. This includes both the FOBT & Lynch Screening Service, in one or more locations and including service flexibility to the screening populations., The role will involve collaborative working with a team of SSP's, current and other endoscopy units in satellite screening locations to ensure delivery of the screening service in these areas.
The SSP will be supported by the Lead SSP's, Senior SSP's, Clinical Programme Manager & (non clinical) Programme Manager.
The SSP is expected to be an experienced nurse showing professional & personal development. It is essential that the post holder can work within a diverse team, provide autonomous decision making and be aware of their limitations in accordance with NMC. The role involves the ability to integrate, communicate, support and be a role model to a wide multi-disciplinary group in a centre of excellence.
The SSP clinical duties are as defined in the screening centres overall demand and capacity planning and SSP's weekly sessional commitments- (job plan).
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We promote the wellbeing and safety of all our patients and carers by acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately, according to the standards determined by our policy and procedures. All posts working with vulnerable groups will be subject to an enhanced criminal records check upon appointment and staff will need to give their consent for the Trust to receive regular updates on their criminal records status throughout their employment.
Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Our employment checking processes require that all shortlisted applicants provide the contact details of their current HR Department. If shortlisted you will be sent an email reminder to present the contact details of your HR Department at the interview.
Please note the Trust uses identity checking software for verifying the authenticity of identity documents provided by candidates.
As part of our commitment to the Equality and Diversity at LNWUH, we are encouraging applications from BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) candidates as we seek to ensure our workforce structures are representative of the diversity of the communities we serve.

LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
+ Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
+ St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
+ Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
+ Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
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Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff., London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
+ Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
+ St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
+ Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
+ Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.