Immunisation Nurse

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a dynamic V&I Nurse to join their immunisation team. This role involves delivering high-quality vaccination services to children and young people across the Mersey Care Footprint, responding to health needs and ensuring compliance with national health programmes.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Organisational and service transformation opportunities

Qualifications

• Knowledge of vaccination and immunisation programmes.
• Ability to work autonomously and in a team.
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities.

Responsibilities

• Support the national childhood immunisation programme.
• Plan and deliver vaccinations, including responding to disease outbreaks.
• Ensure vaccination procedures follow The Green Book guidelines.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Public health knowledge

Job description

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The successful applicants will be dynamic, highly motivated individuals, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work autonomously and as a member of the Immunisation team. As a V&I Nurse you will be working as part of pro-active skill mix team who are committed to delivering high quality services to children, young people and their families across the Mersey Care Footprint. Travelling in your own vehicle.

Applicants must demonstrate knowledge and understanding of public health with regard to vaccination & immunisation principles of the national childhood and adult programmes, with a commitment to reducing health inequalities.

The responsibilities of a member of the nurse led immunisation team will be to support the national childhood immunisation programme and at times respond to disease outbreaks. This will involve the planning, delivery and optimisation of the national routine immunisation programmes.

Immunisations will be undertaken during campaigns to school age children, specifically MMR, HPV, Meningitis, School Leaver Booster, Influenza vaccinations and Other vaccinations as directed by NHS England

The post holder will also deliver out of schedule vaccinations in accordance with the The Green Book following the latest information on vaccines and vaccination procedures to ensure children are protected against vaccine preventable diseases.

The service delivers vaccines across the 0-19 year olds and 0-25 for children with specialist educational needs.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jennifer Da Costa Greaves Job title: Vaccination and Coordinator Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01512476130

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Health, Wellness & Fitness

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