This is an exciting opportunity for someone to work with the Breast Screening team, promoting and encouraging participation in screening across a wide a diverse population.
This is an 18 month post, and may be offered as a fixed term contract or a secondment opportunity.
The post holder will be working across the Liverpool, Sefton and Knowsley areas, attending health promotion events, visiting GP practices, volunteer groups and other stakeholders. Travel expenses will be compensated. On occasion, events may be held in the evenings or weekends, so some flexibility is essential.
The post holder will work within the Breast Screening team, alongside our newly appointed Breast Screening Uptake Officer, but will also need to be able to manage their own workload.
Some experience of health promotion or Breast Screening would be an advantage, but full training will be given.
A key aspect of the role involves daily and direct (e.g. face to face and telephone) communication with participants/clients, relatives, carers, and other health and social care professionals.
The information and nature of the communication required is sensitive due to the nature of screening for cancer.
Communication in this context requires a high degree of empathy, understanding, diplomacy, honesty and integrity and for this reason post holder will have excellent communication skills and be willing to undertake on-going training and development.
Contribute to the increase in uptake and coverage for Breast Screening
Contribute to a reduction in non-responders and DNAs for screening and
assessment.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
1. Contribute to the increase in uptake and coverage for screening by telephoning identified nonresponders (if required and where applicable) for example, those who have been called for the first time and have not attended, looking for ways to support attendance and undertakes surveys or audits to assess effectiveness of different aspects of the service.
2. Contribute to a reduction in non-responders and DNAs for screening and assessment, if required and applicable
3. Proactively contact participants (where applicable) who have been called for the first time, to ask if they are intending to attend screening. Offer information and support if required or obtain an understanding as to the reasons why if they are not planning to attend.
4. In collaboration with the Programme Manager/Office Manager, use site specific uptake data and demographic data to develop an understanding of the population groups not attending for screening i.e. those from protected characteristic groups and the barriers that those population groups face in accessing screening services.
5. Provide help to participants such as giving detail behind correspondence/helping the participant
understand the information they are given, offering emotional support, reminding the client of appointments and rearranging them on the client’s behalf if necessary.
6. Answer queries in relation to their appointment, finding advice from appropriate source where needed
7. Provide comprehensive and effective health promotion support in identifying, developing and implementing specific approaches in relation to screening to raise awareness of and to increase uptake
and coverage rates.
8. Gather evidence on why the local eligible population choose not to attend/participate in cancer screening
9. Work closely with GP practices and to liaise with health care
professionals and voluntary organisations in organising promotional information and events in promoting breast screening for hard to reach groups e.g. disabilities, Black and Ethnic Minority Communities.
10. Target lower uptake practices for breast screening; to drive uptake up and to increase the number of people who attend.
11. Supporting the Programme Manager/Office Manager to maintain an accurate recording system to monitor performance, to demonstrate trends and to analyse information in compiling detailed reports.
This advert closes on Wednesday 22 Jan 2025