# Specialist Screening Practioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-screening-practioner/34f1e49b-8c48-4eea-94a4-0851977c3738 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-screening-practioner/34f1e49b-8c48-4eea-94a4-0851977c3738.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Kettering General Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Practitioner - **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Cross site working UHN) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-20T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-06T14:16:15.228Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8281872 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8281872?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kgh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Screening Practitioner (SSP) to join the expanding Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. This role supports service growth following the introduction of the FIT@80 pathway, helping to deliver high-quality screening, surveillance, and early cancer detection services. As an SSP, you will provide specialist assessment, counselling, and support to participants throughout their screening journey, including managing patients with abnormal FIT results, coordinating colonoscopy pathways, and ensuring timely follow-up care. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will help maintain national screening standards while delivering a patient-centred service. We are seeking a registered healthcare professional with excellent communication, clinical assessment, and organisational skills. Experience in cancer services, gastroenterology, endoscopy, or screening programmes is desirable, although full training will be provided. Based at Kettering General Hospital, the role also requires working across Northampton General Hospital. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to cancer prevention, early diagnosis, and improved patient outcomes within a supportive team. ### Main duties of the job We are seeking enthusiastic and motivated registered healthcare professionals who are passionate about improving patient outcomes through early cancer detection and prevention. The successful candidates will demonstrate: - Strong clinical assessment and patient management skills - Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, including confidence in discussing sensitive and complex information - A compassionate, patient-centred approach to care - Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage a varied workload effectively - Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams - Sound decision-making and problem-solving skills - Attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining high-quality standards - Good IT and documentation skills - Flexibility and ability to travel between Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital sites - Experience in cancer services, gastroenterology, endoscopy, screening programmes an advantage but not essential ### Training Requirement A mandatory requirement of this role is the successful completion of the Level 6 Specialist Screening Practitioner (SSP) Course within 12 months of commencing the post. Completion of this qualification is essential to continue in the role. Full support will be provided to attend and complete the programme, which is delivered at Torbay Hospital in partnership with the University of Plymouth. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of all Roles and Responsibilities. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to apply knowledge and skills to a broad range of clinically and professionally challenging situations. - IT Skills - knowledge of a number IT packages such as word, Excel and other patient management systems - Clinical judgement and decision making - Effective communication written & verbal skills - Data input, collection, analysis, audit and evaluation **Desirable** - Counselling skills - Advanced Communication Course ### Working conditions **Essential** - Be able to drive to screening sites - Be IT literate and able to work at a computer for prolonged periods of time - Able to stand for prolonged periods of time during procedures - Ability to deal with regular interruptions and demands - Be able to share an office with numerous members of the team and hot desk - Ability to work in a changing environment - Be able to adapt to different departments, work with different teams and use any resources available **Desirable** - Ability to deal with distressed/anxious patients/ relatives ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - 2 years’ experience as a registered general nurse - Knowledge of professional and NHS issues relating to Bowel Cancer Screening - Ability to work under pressure and prioritise workload with minimal supervision - Works effectively within a team - Working in a multi-disciplinary team environment **Desirable** - Completed SSP Course at level 6 or 7 - Endoscopy experience - Knowledge of Colorectal disease and treatments ### Education and training Qualifications **Essential** - Registered General Nurse - CPD - Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development/revalidation **Desirable** - Evidence of diploma/degree level training - Mentor/teaching/assessing qualification ### Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes **Essential** - Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users - Organisational skills – good time management and ability to prioritise with competing pressures. - Displays enthusiasm and self-motivation - Confident at dealing with all staff in all disciplines and grades - Be polite and professional - Displays a willingness to learn and develop themselves - Be reliable and conscientious - Display a flexible approach **Desirable** - Evidence of working autonomously - Negotiation and conflict management skills ## Documents - [uhn ssp jd ps (pdf, 504.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10633648) - [staff privacy notice (pdf, 300.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1830) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.