Maternity Immunisation Nurse/ Midwife Band 5

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust; Bath; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading health trust as a Maternity Immunisation Nurse/Midwife, part of a dynamic vaccination team covering Bath. This role offers the opportunity to administer key vaccinations to pregnant individuals while ensuring high standards of care in a supportive environment. You'll play a crucial part in enhancing public health and see your contributions make a direct impact on community health.

Qualifications

• You must be a NMC Registered Nurse/Midwife.
• Anaphylaxis training is desirable.
• IT literacy and phlebotomy skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a safe and effective vaccination service.
• Perform robust health pre-assessments.
• Ensure safe custody and administration of vaccines.

Skills

IT literate

Phlebotomy skills

Manage and prioritise own workload

Ability to work as part of a team

Education

NMC Registered Nurse/Midwife

Anaphylaxis training

Job description

Maternity Immunisation Nurse/ Midwife Band 5

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Job Overview

Would you like to work in a highly motivated and friendly Maternity vaccination team covering Bath, North East Somerset and West Wiltshire? This is an exciting opportunity to join a new service, where you will work as part of a dynamic team delivering a safe and effective vaccination service for pregnant people across multiple sites within the remit of Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust services.

Job Overview

Would you like to work in a highly motivated and friendly Maternity vaccination team covering Bath, North East Somerset and West Wiltshire? This is an exciting opportunity to join a new service, where you will work as part of a dynamic team delivering a safe and effective vaccination service for pregnant people across multiple sites within the remit of Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust services.

We are looking for nurse/midwives with an interest in Public Health who are keen to work with us to ensure we have a universal offer in place for vaccinations given within maternity services. Leading on the vaccination service for the delivery of influenza, covid, pertussis vaccinations in pregnancy and the BCG vaccination for newborns, they will in future support the roll out of the Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programme.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ in our latest CQC review, our service consists of an acute and 2 standalone birth centres. We also have 2 community midwifery led hubs, a 24 hour Maternity Assessment Unit and are in the planning stages of an alongside midwifery unit at the RUH site.

If you are a nurse or midwife who would like to be part of our future and can meet this challenge we welcome your interest in applying for this vacancy. This is your chance to be part of a transforming organisation and we look forward to working with you to develop this service to a high standard.

Main duties of the job

Observe the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of professional standards that nurses, midwives and nursing associates must uphold in order to be registered to practise.

Competent in all aspects of immunisation including knowledge of contraindications to specific vaccines and the recognition and treatment of anaphylaxis

Commitment to providing non-discriminating and non-judgemental care.

Perform robust health pre-assessments including-but not exclusive to- previous reactions to vaccination, immunisation history

Address any concerns and ensure consent and clinical assessment is completed and recorded within maternity records prior to vaccination

Escalate any concerns where necessary, to appropriate health care professional in order to gain further advice and support.

Assume responsibility for the safe custody and administration of drugs in accordance with the Trust Policies and Statutory Rules and Regulations

Ensure that vaccine batch numbers are recorded under the correct patient, documented in the hand held notes, patient electronic record and national database.

Be sufficiently flexible to change and develop practice in light of knowledge gained through reflection, research and audit.

Ensure attendance at NHS England immunisation meetings and keep up to date with best practice.

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC Registered Nurse/Midwife
  
  

Desirable criteria

• anaphylaxis training
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Manage and prioritise own workload.
• Ability to work as part of a team and actively participate in team meetings
• IT literate
• Phlebotomy skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience in administration of vaccination/IM medication
• Involvement with the immunisation programme.
  
  

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Maternity immunisation Nurse/Midwife (PDF, 400.4KB)
• Join the RUH (PDF, 1.1MB)
  
  

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Victoria Mainstone Job title Newborn screening manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01225 286942

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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