Beeston Pcn Cancer Care Coordinator - Leeds, United Kingdom - South & East Leeds GP Group

South & East Leeds GP Group

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Leeds, United Kingdom

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Beeston PCN Cancer Care Coordinator

South and East Leeds GP Group

The closing date is 15 September 2023

Interviews to be held on the 2nd October 2023*
Job summary

The role combines both hands-on work with providing strategic support to GP Practices across the Beeston Primary Care Network (PCN), with the overall aim to increase participation in cancer screening programmes for cervical, bowel, and breast cancer.

The post holder will work closely with the PCN Executive Team and a range of partners to support the successful implementation of this strategy and deliver sustainable improvements to the rate of cancer screening uptake across their PCN patient cohort.

Main duties of the job
With support from their line manager and also the Service Delivery Manager for this programme, the post holder will use available guidance and resources, interpretation of data, innovative approaches and local partner knowledge, to oversee an increase in screening rates by:

supporting practices including a hands-on approach to improve screening uptake amongst those who have not responded to bowel or cervical screening invitations.

promoting strategies that encourage take up of breast cancer screening.

identifying hard to reach population groups and developing specific interventions aimed at targeting those identified groups.

The post holder will develop positive working relationships with the Cancer Screening Champions in their PCN.

They will work with the Cancer Screening Champions to develop strategies that maximise opportunities to increase participation in cancer screening whilst avoiding duplication of work.

The post holder will share learning and good practice across the GP Practices within their PCN as well as with Cancer Care Coordinators in other PCNs.

The post holder shall act as a point of contact on the three national cancer screening programmes and will identify guidance and support to their Practices on all matters relating to cancer screening.

About us
A primary care network is a group of practices who work together to focus on local patient care. Theyve been around since 2019 and 99 per cent of practices across England now work as part of one.

With increased demand and a shortage of clinical staff, practices find they can provide greater, more personalised care for patients when they can work together on certain services or issues.

Job description

Job responsibilities
Job Focus

Priority focus:

Work with the Practice Cancer Screening Champions and use data to develop a thorough and live picture of the Practice patient cohort.
Support Practices to understand variation in cancer screening data at a Practice level and seek to understand why variations exist.
Using available guidance and resources, develop innovative strategies to:
increase bowel and cervical screening uptake by 5% amongst those who have previously not attended.
Encourage uptake of breast screening
Identify the hardtoreach population groups within each Practice.

- agree with each Practice an area of focus within their hard-to-reach groups.
- utilise existing research and conduct PCN level work to understand why these groups might not be engaging in screening.
- support Practices to develop strategies to increase screening uptake by 5% within this patient cohort.
- support Practices to utilise available resources to tailor approaches to target identified groups.

Work with the PCN to develop a local PCN action plan that will help achieve the above

Training and Development:

Identify training and development needs within the PCN; this may include the use of skills audit etc.
Identify gaps in training provision and work with line manager, Service Delivery Manager and other Cancer Care Coordinators to source training to cover these gaps.
Act as a point of contact for the three national cancer screening programmes, able to share knowledge where appropriate within the PCN.

Community Partnerships:

Develop community partnerships appropriate to Practice patient cohort e.g. links with BAME community groups.
Work with Local Care Partnership to represent the PCN practices and encourage integrated working to achieve patient outcomes.
Raise the profile of role within community and partner organisations
Seek/facilitate patient and stakeholder insight to feed into future work planning and delivery

Raising Awareness of Screening:

Identify opportunities for engaging with patient populations, including different communities, to raise awareness of screening and signs and symptoms of cancer
Work with all relevant partner agencies to undertake targeted awareness raising of screening, and risk factors and signs and symptoms of bowel, breast and cervical cancer
Support Practices to utilise different comms approaches and use appropriate materials for the local patient population to raise awareness
Where appropriate, signpost practices and patients to support services at a local l