East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Cervical Screening Provider Lead

The closing date is 01 October 2025

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and pro-active Cervical Screening Provider Lead who will oversee and co-ordinate the quality and effectiveness of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme ( NHSCSP) within East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

You will be responsible for maintaining close working relationship between all parts of the Trust's cervical screening activities and stakeholders. You should also ensure close working relationships are maintained with other CSPLs across the screening pathway to provide continuity across the programme.

Persons likely to be able to fulfil the role are:

Consultant cellular pathologists

Non-training grade experienced senior colposcopists or consultant colposcopists

Laboratory lead biomedical scientists (BMS) or consultant BMS

Senior nurse colposcopists or lead colposcopy nurses

This post is 7.5 hours per week (or 8 hours if medical), role can be remote but successful candidate must be accessible to site for QA visits.

If you have are kind, innovative, highly experience lead , we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To act as the centre for communications about the NHS Cervical screening programme; coordinating relevant histology and colposcopy and advising Trust management on cervical screening matters

To ensure that laboratory and colposcopy performance complies with NHS Cervical Screening Programme guidelines and standards and take appropriate action where they do not. This includes ensuring that appropriate links are maintained between general practices, the laboratory and colposcopy clinic/ clinics and that suitable, timely treatment is available for women with cervical cytology abnormalities.

To monitor the quality and effectiveness of the services provided by ESNEFT according to NHSCSP standards and guidelines and take appropriate action to address any shortfalls or escalate appropriately.

To ensure that there is a timely collection and submission of data for national mandatory statistical returns and data for routine and ad hoc programme monitoring for NHS England commissioners, SQAS and other organisations.

To review data relating to the service provided by ESNEFT and monitor performance against both nationally and locally agreed standards.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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Date posted

18 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

432-HR718-25

Job locations

Colchester/Ipswich

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registration with the relevant professional body
Demonstrates a commitment to continuing education and training.

Experience

Essential

Proven experience at a senior level in a suitable role within the NHSCSP e.g. Consultant Cellular Pathologist, non-training grade senior Colposcopist, Consultant Colposcopist, Laboratory lead Biomedical Scientist, Consultant Biomedical Scientist, senior Nurse Colposcopist, lead Colposcopy Nurse.
Advanced knowledge of NHSCSP guidelines and pathways
Detailed knowledge of NHSCSP policies and guidelines
Experience of quality assurance, performance monitoring and other benchmarking standards
Understanding of clinical governance, clinical audit and achieving quality targets

Desirable

Proven experience in management

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registration with the relevant professional body
Demonstrates a commitment to continuing education and training.

Experience

Essential

Proven experience at a senior level in a suitable role within the NHSCSP e.g. Consultant Cellular Pathologist, non-training grade senior Colposcopist, Consultant Colposcopist, Laboratory lead Biomedical Scientist, Consultant Biomedical Scientist, senior Nurse Colposcopist, lead Colposcopy Nurse.
Advanced knowledge of NHSCSP guidelines and pathways
Detailed knowledge of NHSCSP policies and guidelines
Experience of quality assurance, performance monitoring and other benchmarking standards
Understanding of clinical governance, clinical audit and achieving quality targets

Desirable

Proven experience in management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester/Ipswich

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester/Ipswich

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)