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Fancy a change?  Interested in diversifying your skills to boost your CV?  Oxfordshire Targeted Lung Health Check is a new OUH provided service.  Nurse-led and community based it is an ideal opportunity to join a friendly and innovative team keen to support training and development.

Targeted Lung Health Check services save lives and improves the health of our local populations through early identification of cancer and promoting smoking cessation.  Eligible asymptomatic participants between the ages of 55 to 74  with a smoking history are invited to attend our mobile CT unit  for a lung health check.  Your role will be to tackle inequalities by promoting engagement in the programme, particularly amongst "hard to reach" groups and then support participants through their Lung Health check journey.  For some this will lead to cancer diagnosis.  But early detection from low-dose CT scans using artificial intelligence to enhance image analysis can transform 5-year survival rates from around 15% to around 85%.  Incidental findings of raised cardiovascular risk will enable early intervention to help prevent heart attacks and strokes.

For more details visit our website

Targeted Lung Health Check (TLHC) - Oxford University Hospitals (ouh.nhs.uk)

or email to request an informal chat ([email protected])

“This is a fixed term contract so applications for secondment to the role from substantive OUH posts are also welcome”

Main duties of the job

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High profile, accessible and responsive leadership with clinical, staff and service responsibility for delivering Oxfordshire’s Lung Cancer Screening Programme.

Responsible for the day-to-day management of TLHC service, including the assessment process, service improvement initiatives, implementation and evaluation of local and national programme standards and service protocols.

Facilitate innovative and evidence-based nursing practice through professional leadership and direction of the clinical team.  Act as a credible and professional role model and encourage and empower other staff to develop both personally and professionally and achieve their maximum potential

Able to make informed decisions within their own area and scope of professional practice, involving patients and public to ensure agreed standards, objectives and targets are met. The leader should be able to provide exceptional treatment and care to patients throughout their screening process.

Deliver a pivotal role within the multidisciplinary team meetings facilitate a collaborative approach to patient care. 

May act as the Responsible Assessor for the TLHC service with responsibility for ensuring the service is delivered in accordance with national protocols and quality standards (PR1646 and PR 1647).

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is a world-renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching
trusts in the UK.
The Trust is made up of four hospitals -the John Radcliffe Hospital (which includes the Children's Hospital, West Wing, Eye Hospital, Heart Centre
and Women's Centre), the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, all located in Oxford, and the Horton General Hospital in
Banbury, North Oxfordshire.
We provide a wide range of clinical services, specialist services (including cardiac, cancer, musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation)
medical education, training and research.
Our collaboration with the University of Oxford underpins the quality of the care that is provided to patients, from the delivery of high-quality
research, bringing innovation from the laboratory bench to the bedside, to high-quality education and training of doctors.
Clinical Support Services Division
Radiology is part of the Clinical Support Services Division and consists of 5 directorates:
• Critical Care, Anaesthetics, Pre-op Assessment, Pain Relief Unit, Resuscitation & Outpatients
• Pathology & Laboratories
• Radiology & Imaging
• Pharmacy & Sterile Services
• Psychological Medicine