Employer University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Breast Screening Unit, Royal Lancaster Infirmary Town Lancaster Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/06/2025 23:59
Improving Uptake Officer - Breast Screening
NHS AfC: Band 5
''Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work''
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the North Lancashire and South Cumbria Breast Screening programme as an Improving Uptake Officer. This position is a full time/part time/flexible working, fixed term position for 9 months to cover maternity leave from March/April 2025.
Cancer screening programmes are a unique aspect of the Health Service and play an important role in protecting the health of the population. The uptake in Lancashire across the breast screening programme is below the national average and declining year on year for breast.
· The aim of this role is to target patients in lower uptake practices for breast screening; to drive uptake up and to increase the number of people who receive screening. This will potentially lead to:
· Effective treatment packages
· Saving lives
· GP endorsement has been found to increase uptake, therefore the Improving Uptake Officer will work collaboratively on behalf of the breast screening programme, GP practices to encourage GPs and primary care staff to acknowledge the importance of their role and endorsement in screening on uptake.
Main duties of the job
Visit GP practices and to liaise with health care professionals in organising promotional information/ events in promoting Breast Screening to hard to reach groups of women.
Educate women on breast awareness and breast screening providing relevant breast screening information.
Support GP practices in helping them target non-attenders.
Continue to implement a communication plan across Lancashire and South Cumbria – including progressing text reminders
Provide feedback reports, evaluation and recommendations as agreed with commissioners
Continue to implement interventions as appropriate to encourage individual to attend for screening based on evidence gathered from the project
Develop a sustainability plan
Development and implementation of a project plan including agreed milestones
Interim and end of year reports to include evaluation and recommendations, service development and improvements made due to recommendations.
Agreed KPIs including number of:
Agreed milestones delivered
Non-attenders by age, clinic, ethnicity, harder to reach groups and postcode
Working for our organisation
We operatefrom three main hospitals-Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, andUlverstonCommunity Health Centre.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies,daycase and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/
Person specification
* Educated to degree level (related to post) or relevant experience.
* Computer qualification or equivalent experience in the use of Microsoft Office/Office365 including, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher).
* Proven operational involvement in the management of projects involving professionals and patients/service users/members of the public working together.
PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL.
The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities where ever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be EffortlesslyInclusive .
The trust operates a No Smoking Policy.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview.
We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.
The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert
If the post is subject to Disclosure & Barring Service checking, (formally CRB) a charge of £49.50 for Enhanced and £21.50 for Standard clearance and additional to this a £4.90 administration fee will be made to the successful candidate(s). This currently only applies to roles Band 6 and above and Medical & Dental posts.
Anyone newly appointed to the trust under the Agenda For Change contract, will be subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the role and working environment.
We have introduced a new system called Pre-Onboarding, specifically to support you right the way through to your first few months in your new role with us atUHMB. This bespoke site has lots of useful information to help you settle into your new roleincluding: what to expect from the recruitment clearances process, where to get a uniform, when you'll get paid etc. As well as information on a number of our services i.e. Infection Prevention, Anti-fraud, Inclusion and Diversity, Care Certificates and much more. To access click on this linkhttps://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/uhmbt-pre-onboarding .
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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