A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Do you have a clinical skills qualification if so we have an opportunity for a Lead Specialist Screening Practitioner – Bowel Cancer Screening Programme to work for Northumbria Healthcare / Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts.
The successful applicant would be working in an autonomous role with the support of a Bowel Screening Team.
To act as the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Lead Specialist Screening Practitioner for the provision and co-ordination of the Specialist Screening Practitioner (SSP) Team, ensuring the service needs are met across the North of Tyne area.
Ensure all members of the team are providing an effective service across both Northumbria and Newcastle Hospitals Trusts and within local communities.
To supervise the link SSP Nurse in co-ordination of health promotion activities with local providers to facilitate awareness and access to the BCSP.
To provide a screening service for patients participating in the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme North of Tyne, ensuring all sites provide access to patients that meet demand.
Assess patients prior to commencing colorectal investigations.
Post holder will be expected to participate as a SSP, acting as a patient advocate supporting them to navigate clinical pathways for colorectal cancer conditions.
To support the Programme Manager to monitor the Screening Centre’s performance by reviewing and taking action, where required, regarding failsafe reports on a weekly basis and conducting appropriate compliance audits
Work collaboratively with the Screening Programme Hub providing the link with the acute services.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
The service is provided within all major sites including Royal Victoria Infirmary, Freeman Hospital, Hexham General Hospital, North Tyneside General Hospital and Wansbeck General Hospital.
Manage a team of SSP’s
Participate in quality assessments as required
Pre-assessment clinics across the sites
Endoscopy sessions
Follow-up clinics
Health promotion activities
Education and training delivery
This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Dec 2024
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