Health Screening Posts

Job summary

This is a wonderful opportunity for registered healthcare professionals who are passionate about health inequalities and making a difference to apply for new roles where you will be supported to enable our learning disabilities population to participate in 5 of the National Health Screening Programs

Bowel Cancer Screening

Breast Cancer Screening

Cervical Cancer Screening

Diabetic Eye Screening

and

Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Screening.

You will have exciting opportunities to work with cancer screening leads, cross professional boundaries (acute and community) create innovative pathways, work autonomously and as part of a team to bridge the gap.

Applications are welcomed from registered Learning Disability Nurses, Registered General Nurses or AHP,s . You will be part of innovative works aligned and benchmarked against both Regional and National goals.

You will be encouraged to use all of you clinical and communication skills to drive equity and equality across healthcare systems.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached job description.

Principle responsibility of the new posts is to make a difference.

To innovate, advocate, enable and empower.

Visible and proactive with a solution focused approach to ensure that those within the learning disabilities population utilise screening programs to detect early disease enabling them to benefit from timely diagnostics and treatment.

Enthusiasm and a passion for providing high quality care to a vulnerable population is key.

Working with multiple diverse key stakeholder across the County.

Putting the service user at the centre of everything that you do.

About us

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone!