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Job summary

Main area
Gastro-enterology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (due to limited funding)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
309-UCLH-7697
Employer
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
University College Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/04/2026 23:59

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Lead Specialist Bowel Cancer Screening Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 8a

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Job overview

UCLH is looking to recruit a Specialist Screening Practitioner (SSP) into our nurse-led Bowel Cancer Screening (BCS) service.

You will work alongside other SSP’s providing care for participants of the screening programme. This is an opportunity for someone with a particular interest in bowel cancer and/or screening who would like experience in an expanded nursing role. 

Experience of Endoscopy or GI nursing is desirable. You will have a full induction programme and assigned a mentor when you start to support your integration into the team, to enable you to undertake clinics and support the screening endoscopy lists once trained. 

Due to the expansion of our service, it is an exciting time to join us and play a leading role in the earlier diagnosis of bowel cancer, based at UCLH but working across NCL, supporting bowel cancer screening lists at UCLH, Whittington Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital.  

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join a team of Specialist Screening Practitioners responsible for providing care for patients participating in the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. This involves initial nurse-led assessment clinics: arrangement of colonoscopies for patients within designated Bowel Screening colonoscopy sessions, and to attend colonoscopy with them. They will provide clinics to discuss colonoscopy outcomes, including cancer diagnoses.  Our nurses are the patient advocate, providing the information necessary to ensure that patients are able to make informed choices at all stages of the screening process. Our team of SSPs are responsible for ensuring that all activity is recorded on both local and national databases for audit and quality assurance purposes.

The role will involve coordinating care, working autonomously and addressing the needs of individuals that arise. It will also entail detailed and accurate data entry into local and national databases. The post holder will require excellent communication skills and a flexible approach to their work.

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.     

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:     

  • University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)   

  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery  

  • Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals  

  • University College Hospital Grafton Way Building  

  • Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine   

  • University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre   

  • The Hospital for Tropical Diseases  

  • University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street  

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.    

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description. 

The North Central London bowel screening centre is based at UCLH and covers the eligible population in Camden, Islington, Haringey, Enfield and Barnet.  We are a busy service and once again expanding.  We deliver colonoscopy screening lists at UCLH and Whittington and are about to start screening lists at Chase Farm Hospital, in Enfield.  

The Bowel Cancer Screening Programme continues to grow at UCLH. The starting age for bowel screening was reduced to 50 in March 2025 and having achieved age-extension UCLH has also been chosen as one of the first trial sites in England to lower the threshold to trigger an abnormal test and a referral. The vision is for more people to be screened so as to identify bowel cancer at an early stage and remove advanced polyps before they turn into cancer thus saving lives.
 
We value and promote diversity and equality in the workplace and a degree of flexible and hybrid working is available

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*  

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.  

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.   

To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH? 

Person specification

Knowledge & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • First level registered nurse
  • Educated to Masters level or for completion within 24 months of appointment (in Health related subject or Education)
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership &/or management Qualification
  • Be an independent prescriber in accordance to the trusts NMP policy
  • Appropriate post registration qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Relevant experience within bowel cancer screening programme
  • Substantial experience in bowel cancer
  • Proven experience of leading a team
  • Evidence of developing and maintaining a high quality service

Personal And People Development

Essential criteria
  • Experience of people management
  • Professional Nursing issues
  • Able to prioritise objectives and workload

Service Improvement

Essential criteria
  • Skill-mix and Workforce planning
Desirable criteria
  • Business planning Skills

Values

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate ability to meet Trust Values of safety, kindness, teamwork and improving

Knowledge and Information Resources

Essential criteria
  • Able to utilise ICT to full potential

Learning and Development

Essential criteria
  • Committed to multi-disciplinary working and learning, understands related issues

People management

Essential criteria
  • Managing organisational change
  • Managing staff
  • Able to work in a team and individually

Communication

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Aysha Morris
Job title
Deputee Lead Specialist Screening Practitioner
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

For further information or to arrange an informal visit. 

0203 447 2302