Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role involves supporting the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme by coordinating and providing care to individuals identified through screening. The practitioner will assess patients for endoscopic procedures, deliver results, and make clinically informed decisions to manage patients along the screening pathway. It requires a dynamic and highly motivated individual to deliver high-quality care and ensure timely access to diagnostic interventions.
Key responsibilities
- Provide advice, information and support for those making direct contact with the screening centre.
- Be responsible for care delivery to patients identified by the screening programme, including assessment for endoscopic procedures and delivery of results.
- Use specialist knowledge and advanced communication skills with patients and carers when breaking bad news and providing psychological support.
- Ensure timely access to screening colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic intervention and seamless transition to agreed pathways.
- Establish effective links with local colorectal cancer multi-disciplinary teams and Lynch multidisciplinary teams.
- Populate and maintain the BCSP local database, participate in data collection, quality assurance, service feedback, and audit.
Essential criteria
- RGN
- Diploma
- Current full UK driving licence holder
- Post-registration qualification in speciality or related field.
- Teaching and assessing
- Broad range of clinical experience with specific experience in speciality
- Participated in service development and implementation of change. Application of teaching within the work area
- Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of specialist nursing care
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding.
- Able to present written information in a logical manner.
- Basic IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets
- Able to manage own workload and work with minimal supervision.
- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues.
- Assertive
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting
- Participated in service development and implementation of change.
- Supportive of colleagues
- Well motivated
- Able to drive and travel between sites.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Practitioner
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Screening Practitioner (Royal Liverpool Hospital) Band 6 Permanent 37.5 Hours per week
- To play a pivotal role in supporting the BCSP by:
- Working collaboratively with the Programme Hub
- As part of the team, co-ordinating and providing care from the screening centre to address the needs of individuals arising as a consequence of the screening programme
- As part of the team, co-ordination of health promotion activities by all sections of the society
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Screening Practitioner to join the team working in the Liverpool and Wirral Bowel Screening Centre (Royal Hospital site.)
You will be dynamic, highly motivated and flexible in your approach to work. You will be responsible for delivering the highest quality of care to patients identified by the screening programme and will meet the needs of these patients, including assessment for endoscopic procedures, delivery of results and onward referral as required. You will need to be able to make clinically informed decisions to manage patients along the screening pathway and follow them up afterwards.
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