Immunisation Engagement Officer

NHS; Southampton; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK seeks an Immunisation Engagement Officer to enhance the reach of the School Age Immunisation programme. This role involves engaging with families, delivering activities to promote immunisation, and analyzing barriers to increase uptake. The ideal candidate has strong communication and analytical skills, with an understanding of immunisation programmes. Travel across Hampshire will be required as part of the role, contributing to vital community health initiatives.

Qualifications

• Must demonstrate excellent communication skills and a capacity to work with families.
• Good analytical skills to identify trends and promote engagement activities.
• Desirable to understand the school age immunisations programme.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with families about barriers to vaccinations.
• Support staff to integrate participation in daily practice.
• Design and deliver engagement activities with children and young people.
• Attend key meetings to raise profile of participation.
• Use insights from patients to identify improvement areas.
• Ensure the safeguarding of young people and adults, maintaining confidentiality.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Analytical skills

Experience working with families

Understanding of school age immunisations

Utilisation of digital technologies

Job description

Immunisation Engagement Officer

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 25 January 2026

We are looking for someone who is keen to help develop and enhance the reach of the School Age Immunisation programme through analysis and engagement activities with our target populations.

We are keen to understand the barriers to vaccinations and try to overcome these to help increase the uptake of school age immunisations. This role would be to help identify and monitor our schools/areas with the lowest uptake as well as delivering activities to promote the immunisation programmes, gain responses to vaccination invitations and help share information about vaccinations.

An ideal candidate would have excellent communication skills and evidence of working with families, a good understanding of the school age immunisations programme and have good analytical skills to pick up on trends. Being able to utilise digital technologies would also be desirable.

This role will be based in the Southampton area and you will need to be able to travel to different locations in a day. The service covers the whole of Hampshire and travel to other sites in this area may also be needed.

Main duties of the job

• Communicating with families around barriers to vaccinations
• To support and encourage all staff within the service to integrate participation in daily practice as well as service development and provision of training; working proactively and collaboratively with clinical teams to overcome any challenges around embedding the principles of good participation in their profession or team.
• To design and deliver engagement and participation activities with children and young people and their parents/carers using a full range of techniques so that they are meaningfully engaged in a way that is enjoyable, safe, and ethical and where they can have genuine influence on improving services.
• Attend key meetings at service, trust- and system-level to raise profile and demonstrate effectiveness of participation.
• Work with colleagues to learn from experience/insight of patients, carers, and their families, using it to identify areas for improvement and ideas for change and measure the impact of improvement activity.
• Ensuring safeguarding of all the young people and adults present. To ensure that confidentiality is maintained within the boundaries of relevant codes of professional conduct and legal responsibilities.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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.

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Adelaide Health Centre, Western Community Centre

£31,049 to £37,796 a year. Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

348-CFS-10154

Job locations

Adelaide Health Centre, Western Community Centre