Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust Looking for Cervical Cancer Prevention Officer at Perth, Perth and Kinross (Hybrid) Full Time

Following a successful two year Cervical Cancer Prevention Programme in the West of Scotland, Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust are rolling out tailored training and community engagement activities across all health boards in Scotland. Over the next two years we will grow our team in Scotland to develop and share best practice in raising awareness of cervical cancer screening and prevention with members of the community and health care professionals. Engaging locally with Scottish health board areas will allow us to educate and empower people to make decisions about their own health, reduce health inequalities and work towards our long term vision or eliminating cervical cancer.

This role will support in the development of Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust’s vital cervical cancer prevention activity, working to understand and address barriers to screening attendance and developing innovative ways to engage with women and people with a cervix in areas of low uptake. 

In this role you will work closely with the Deputy Head of Information & Engagement to research, promote and deliver our tailored training programmes designed to deliver cervical health information and address barriers to screening uptake for key groups through health care professionals, community groups and local health boards.  You will also support in the development and evaluation of co-produced resources which will reach women from within their local communities with tailored and effective cervical health messages.

Key tasks and responsibilities

To work towards our goal of eliminating cervical cancer, we want to address uptake of cervical screening (smear tests) amongst two primary groups: women with a learning disability and younger women living in deprived areas, as well as raising awareness of barriers to screening amongst health care professionals and Primary Care staff.  We will also have a secondary focus of: women going through the menopause, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups and women in rural areas.

Your responsibilities will include the following:  

• Working closely with the Deputy Head of Information and Engagement and the Cervical Cancer Prevention Manager, undertake a scoping and mapping exercise to identify key areas across Scotland, including Fife, Forth Valley, Grampian, Highland and Tayside, and potentially Shetland and Orkney, in which to deliver core project activity.
• Actively promote and deliver Jo’s cervical cancer awareness training to health care professionals, non-clinical GP practice staff, relevant organisations and community groups.
• Ensure the charity database is kept up to date with all training and engagement activity, and run reports as required.
• Create, disseminate and analyse surveys using surveymonkey and other relevant data collection programs, and report findings to feed into impact reporting.
• Support the Deputy Head of Information and Engagement, and the Cervical Cancer Prevention Manager with administrative duties such as planning, following up and evaluating training sessions as required.
• Prioritise own workload, ensuring stakeholders and supporters are communicated with and supported in a timely and consistent manner.
• With the support from the Deputy Head of Information and Engagement and the Cervical Cancer Prevention Manager, engage with GP practices in identified health board areas to provide information and support that will help improve their cervical screening uptake.
• Support the Deputy Head of Information and Engagement and the Cervical Cancer Prevention Manager in scoping, developing and evaluating new co-produced resources that address cervical screening barriers as required.
• Establish links with defined stakeholders, including relevant third sector organisations, community groups and leaders, faith organisations, and ESOL schools to identify local engagement opportunities with hard to reach groups and raise awareness of cervical cancer and ways to prevent it.
• Develop understanding of the ‘cervical health message’ and the national and local landscape of the NHS cervical screening programme in Scotland.
• Work with the Senior Information Officer to ensure all key messages to our target audiences are up to date, relevant and appropriate. 
• Work closely with the Engagement team in Scotland to raise awareness of the charity across Fife, Forth Valley, Grampian, Highland, Greater Glasgow & Clyde and Tayside and any other identified health board area.
• Work closely with the wider Scotland team to report back to project funder at various intervals.
• Help the charity to better understand and identify marginalised groups of women who do not attend screening.
• Work closely with digital and communication team members to ensure information about the project as it develops is up to date across all platforms.

Miscellaneous

• Due to nature of attending the role, you will sometimes be asked to work outside of office hours and travel across Scotland.
• Work with other members of the team on projects that may be outside of the Information and Engagement arena.
• Be a supportive and participatory member of the team.
• Abide by the charity’s policies, practices and core values.
• Support diversity and equality of opportunity in the workplace for both staff and volunteers.