Improving Screening Uptake Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This role supports the Breast Screening Team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, focusing on improving breast screening uptake rates and reducing health inequalities across different population groups. The post holder will liaise with healthcare professionals and community groups, provide advice, and support the screening pathway, especially for vulnerable individuals. Key responsibilities include promoting screening at events, identifying reasons for non-attendance, and maintaining records to improve uptake.
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Experience of work to improve health outcomes
- Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis.
- Basic knowledge of project principles
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills.
- Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily
- Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet deadlines
- Project management skills.
- Skills for manipulating information
- Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software.
- Ability to work without supervision. Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise.
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters. Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
- Other
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Works well with others , is positive and helpful , listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust and an awareness of information governance requirements and data protection
- Degree or equivalent
- Experience of work to improve health outcomes
- Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis.
- Basic knowledge of project principles
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills.
- Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily
- Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet deadlines
- Project management skills.
- Skills for manipulating information
- Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software.
- Ability to work without supervision. Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise.
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters. Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
- Other
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Works well with others , is positive and helpful , listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust and an awareness of information governance requirements and data protection
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Improving Screening Uptake Officer
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting oppunrtunity has arisen to work within the Breast Screening Team based at Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust. This role aims to support improved uptake rates to breast screening and reduce unwarranted variation in uptake by different population groups - to reduce health inequalities. The role will also be the first point of contact for GP practices and community groups, provide comprehensiveadvice and support for health care professionals and wider organisations to improve the uptake of breast screening.As an Improving Uptake Officer in breast screening, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service and supporting programme managers and screening staff across the breast screening programme.
Main duties of the job
- Liaise directly with healthcare colleagues in Primary Care (GP practices and PCN's), community groups and Place colleagues (ICB and local authority) to improve the uptake of breast screening particularly by population groups vulnerable to low participation in screening.
- Promote uptake of breast screening directly to the eligible population at health promotion events/webinars held across the programme geography.
- Support eligible individuals to
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