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Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic committed individual to join the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) team as a Specialist Screening Practitioner.

You should be a Registered Nurse with experience or interest in Lower GI disease. Experience of the role and the programme would be helpful, but not essential.

Main duties of the job

The main function of the post is to assess participants’ fitness for colonoscopy, support them through the process including communicating results, providing a quality service and maintaining accurate records. You will attend Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings and link with health promotion teams. You will work independently in the community but with the back-up of a supportive team environment. It’s essential that you have good organisational and communications skills and you must be able to work flexibly as our screening lists may be undertaken 7 days a week with possibly some evening work.

Main duties of the job

The main function of the post is to assess participants’ fitness for colonoscopy, support them through the process including communicating results, providing a quality service and maintaining accurate records. You will attend Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings and link with health promotion teams.

You will work independently in the community but with the back-up of a supportive team environment. It’s essential that you have good organisational and communications skills and you must be able to work flexibly as our screening lists may be undertaken 7 days a week with possibly some evening work.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.