Band 5 Immunisation Nurse

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; Leicester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Leicester is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to lead the School Aged Immunisation Programme across local schools. The ideal candidate will have up to date immunisation experience and excellent communication skills. This role requires a UK driving licence and regular travel to various schools. If you're committed to improving health outcomes for children, we encourage you to apply.

Qualifications

• Up to date immunisation experience.
• Experience delivering health services in schools.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car during working hours.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the School Aged Immunisation Programme.
• Plan and co-ordinate immunisation sessions and home visits.
• Assess children for vaccination programmes.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Good IT skills

Education

Registered Nurse

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the School Aged Immunisation service, for an experienced Registered Nurse with up to date immunisation experience.This position is an annualised hours contract.

You will work as part of a team and be responsible for delivering the School Aged Immunisation Programme to your allocated schools (Primary, Secondary and Independent), in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Applicants should be well organised with excellent communication skills and good IT skills.

This is a busy, often changing environment, as the service seeks alternative methods of immunisation delivery to reduce health inequalities, increase uptake and ensure sustainability.

The service is based at County Hall although you will be expected to travel to schools throughout LLR. Please note that this role requires a full UK driving licence and access to a car during working hours.

Contact Details: Gail Evans-Hughes, [e-mail], 07826923420Allison Godfrey-Vallance, [e-mail], 07771945246Marie Butterworth [e-mail] Tel: [phone]

Main duties of the job

• Take Lead role nurse responsibility for a cluster of allocated schoolsPlan and co-ordinate school based / clinic immunisation sessions and home visits.
• Assess children and young people to ensure their inclusion for immunisation/vaccination programmes meets the required criteria for administration under a Patient Group Directive (PGD).
• Prepare and administer immunisations/vaccinations safely and competently in accordance with professional accountability local/national standards and guidelines .
• Ensure the Cold Chain is managed in in accordance with maintaining the cold chain of medicines policy and audit/records are maintained.
• Compliance with the medicines management standards throughout the process including robust awareness of immunisation history and contraindications to vaccination.
• Assess and engage professional judgement to ensure parent / carer / young persons consent is informed in accordance with national and local policy/guidelines.
• Assess and signpost children and young people to the appropriate named Healthy Together practitioner where additional advice and support is indicated for identified health needs.
• Refer any Safeguarding issues identified to school Safeguarding team, referring to Social care as appropriate.

For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.About UsLeicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Please review the attached job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification.

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.