Registered Practitioner

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is looking for a Registered Health Care Professional to join the Vaccination and Rapid Response Team. The role involves delivering vaccinations, conducting clinical assessments, and contributing to disease prevention across Lincolnshire.

The post requires a degree-level qualification, registration as a healthcare professional (nurse, pharmacist or paramedic), and a willingness to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience.
• Registered Health Care Professional: registered nurse, pharmacist or paramedic.
• Non-Medical prescriber qualification or willingness to work towards.
• Practical skills and knowledge of cold chain procedures and medicines management.
• Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising workloads.
• Community nursing experience.
• Knowledge of confidentiality and data protection legislation and information governance requirements.
• Knowledge of vaccination and immunisation schedules in accordance with national recommendations.
• Working knowledge of word processing, internet, email and electronic record keeping.
• Experience of working as part of multi-disciplinary team.
• Previous experience in a similar clinical role.
• Previous experience of teaching and assessing in clinical practice.
• Previous experience of disease prevention and health promotion.

Responsibilities

• Enable the delivery of vaccinations by coordinating site activity and day-to-day vaccination programmes.
• Ensure clinic rooms and equipment are available at the start of each session.
• Administer vaccinations across all age groups in various settings.
• Record all clinical assessments, care and treatment; escalate concerns promptly.
• Conduct clinical assessments within vaccination activity and health promotion.
• Respond to low-level disease outbreaks to manage risk and transmission.
• Administer pre and post exposure prophylaxis and treatment for outbreaks.
• Conduct patient assessments, testing, and treatment under PGDs; document in records.

Skills

Cold chain management

Initiative

Community nursing experience

Education

Degree in relevant subject

Job description

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at LCHS.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our teams – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.

Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.

Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the LCHG team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients. We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

Job overview

As a Registered Health Care Professional working in the Vaccination and Rapid Response Team the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering a safe and effective service.
The post holder will undertake clinical assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating activities along with wider disease prevention and health promotion activities in a variety of settings. The aim of the service is to protect those who are most at risk of serious illness or death from infectious disease and to reduce transmission of the infection. The post holder will be flexible to service need delivering the service across Lincolnshire

Main duties of the job

Enable the delivery of vaccinations to all eligible patients by assisting with the overall coordination of the site activity and day to day delivery of vaccination programmes.

Ensure clinic rooms and equipment are available at the start of each session.

Ensure knowledge of conditions that affect suitability for vaccination and previous vaccination history.

Administer vaccinations across all age groups in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings, in line with local and national policy, procedure and legal frameworks.

Report and record all clinical assessments, care, and treatment: escalating any concerns and issues in a timely way.

Conduct clinical assessments within vaccination activity and wider disease prevention and health promotion.

Respond to episodes of low-level communicable disease outbreaks and incidents in Lincolnshire so they are managed in a rapid and effective manner reducing the risk of onward transmission and wider outbreaks.

Administer pre and post exposure prophylaxis and treatment for low level communicable disease outbreaks in a variety of settings.

Conduct patient assessments, testing, and treatment/prophylaxis under the Patient Group Directive in response to low-level communicable disease outbreaks. Ensure all activities are documented in the records system. Working from PGDs.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details regarding main responsibilities and service objectives, please read the attached Job Description

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Registered Health Care Professional: registered nurse, pharmacist or paramedic
• Non -Medical prescriber qualification or a willingness to work towards.

Skills

• Practical skills and knowledge of cold chain procedures and medicines management
• Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own workloads to changing and often tight deadlines
• Community nursing experience

Knowledge

• Knowledge of confidentiality and data protection legislation and information governance requirements.
• Specialist knowledge in a relevant subject to post graduate level.
• Knowledge of vaccination and immunisation schedules in accordance with national recommendations
• Working knowledge and literate with computer skills to use of word document, internet access and email correspondence and electronic record keeping.

Experience

• Experience of working as part of multi-disciplinary team
• Previous experience in a similar clinical role
• Previous experience of teaching and assessing in clinical practice
• Previous experience of disease prevention and health promotion

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK's most welcoming counties.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone.

Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Important Information: All new employees will be subject to a charge if a DBS check is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by LCHS and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a maximum of a 3 month period.

Any existing employees who require a DBS check as part of the application process will be subject to a charge for that DBS check.

We are a Disability Confident employer ensuring that disabled people have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

Support and/or assistance with completing an application form is available from the Human Resources Team by calling 01522 572889.

We encourage and support vaccination update as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.

Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. When you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete.

Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, LCHS reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenses 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.