Immunisation Nurse

North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization seeks an Immunisation Nurse to deliver vaccination services across the Mersey area. Responsibilities include supporting vaccination campaigns for young people, maintaining clinical standards, and working within a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team. This role offers a 37.5 hours full-time contract with a competitive salary, promoting a diverse and inclusive working environment.

Qualifications

• Registered 1st Level Nurse with degree level education.
• Evidence of continuing professional development in clinical practice competencies.
• Knowledge of public health and vaccination principles.

Responsibilities

• Support the national childhood immunisation programme and respond to disease outbreaks.
• Deliver vaccinations including MMR, HPV, and school leaver booster.
• Assess clients prior to vaccination and maintain clinical standards.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Time management

Teamwork

Education

Registered 1st Level Nurse

Degree level or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Main area Immunisations - Community Services Grade Band 5 Contract 5 months (6 fixed term contracts, 3 to end 31.12.2025 3 to end 31.03.2026) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (09.00-17.00) Job ref 350-CC7271925

Site Manor Farm PCRC Town Huyton Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 25/06/2025 23:59 Interview date 10/07/2025

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

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 an immunisation 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. Travelling in your own vehicle across the Mersey care footprint.

Applicants must demonstrate an in depth 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.

Main duties of the job

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 TheGreen 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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We have a number of temporary posts working across the Mersey care footprint delivering immunisations either targeted 0-5 vaccinations or school based flu vaccination.

As an integral part of a nurse – led Immunisation Team the post holder will receive supervision and guidance around clinical activity from the Caseload Holder and Immunisation Team Leader. The post holder will be responsible for undertaking comprehensive vaccination to children aged 0-5 years who have fallen out of schedule with their primary immunisations

School Age Children in schools, special schools, home or Alternative Education Provisions as commissioned by NHS England to include delivery of an education session/ assembly to the appropriate school years.

Prophylactic anti-viral medication and mass vaccination in outbreak/ pandemic situations

Expansion of the public health agenda i.e. introduction of new vaccines, associated health promotion campaigns

The post holder will:

Individually assess clients prior to vaccination. This may require analysis of whether to defer or refer on, including review of current health status, clinical condition, current medication and reference to national policy under the guidance and supervision of the V&I Coordinator/Team Leader.

Must have undertaken appropriate training for working under the current terms of a PGD before working to it.

Must have undertaken appropriate training for working under PGDs for
supply/administration of medicines

Ensure they are up to date with relevant issues and clinical skills relating to immunisation and management of anaphylaxis, with evidence of appropriate Continued Professional Development (CPD)

Give prescribed vaccines and anti-viral medication as authorised via Patient Group Directions

Maintain clinical standards ensuring hand hygiene is performed before and after every client contact, that vaccination takes place in a safe environment equipment / emergency drugs are in date and accessible, reporting any concerns to the Caseload Holder/Team Leader.

Co-ordinate delivery of vaccines and equipment to the community clinics from the Medicines Management Distribution Centre

Adhere to policy and practice to ensure safe storage, handling preparation and administration of vaccines and medication

Be accountable for ensuring cold chain maintenance during the transport of vaccines and for any fridges or cold chain porters used for transportation

Act as a resource increasing the pool of knowledge around immunisation

Contribute towards a reduction of clinical risk, preventing significant events, acting upon them and the associated cost implications of dealing with errors e.g. setting up recall clinics

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered 1st Level Nurse
• Evidence of continuing professional development in relation to clinical practice competencies, including consent and emergency anaphylaxis and basic life support management
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.

Knowledge/Experience

• Evidence of continuing clinical experience working within Primary Care
• Knowledge and understanding of public health with regard to vaccination and immunisation principles and the national Immunisation programmes
• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding procedures to Protect children and adults and the issues and implications for practice.
• Understanding of the professional code of conduct.
• Evidence of professional knowledge and research based nursing
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Evidence of involvement in clinical audit

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change Oriented

Skills

• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to organise and prioritise own and team members work when required.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Effective time management skills and ability to prioritise workload and work under pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and effective partnership working.
• Ability to communicate well verbally and in writing.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Ability to fulfil the travel requirements for this post i.e. travel for work purposes independently across localities and be able to assist in manoeuvring and carriage of equipment to vaccination sites i.e. vaccine porters.
• Flexibility in availability to meet the needs of the service. During times of increased service pressure flexible working hours including early morning planned sessions and occasional early evening and weekend work may be required.
• Evidence of involvement in teaching or group work.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office “Power Point” package

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [e-mail] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [e-mail] ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.