Specialist Screening Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the nurse led Dorset Bowel Cancer Screening Centre. You will join a highly skilled, motivated team delivering Bowel Cancer population screening to Dorset.  Dorset residents are offered screening from ages fifty years up until seventy five years. Enabling the early detection and treatment of colorectal cancers.  Successful candidates will be employed by University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, based at the Poole Hospital site. There will be an expectation that you travel to three other screening sites within Dorset.

The successful candidate will provide expert knowledge, high quality care and psychological support to Dorset Bowel Cancer Screening subjects and their families.

This role requires NMC Registration

Base Location: Poole Hospital, though you will be required to work across site. This includes Christchurch, Royal Bournemouth Hospital and at Dorset Healthcare.

Interview Date: 8th June 2026

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will support subjects through the screening pathway including

• assessing subjects fitness for colonoscopy,
• supporting subjects to make informed choices,
• delivering healthy life style advice,
• reviewing and actioning investigation results including histopathology an delivering investigation results
• ensuring subjects outcomes are correct.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.