Registered Practitioner

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust; Spilsby; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is seeking a Registered Health Care Professional to join the Vaccination and Rapid Response Team. You will work as part of a dynamic team delivering a safe and effective vaccination service across Lincolnshire.

You will undertake clinical assessments, planning and evaluation of activities, enabling vaccination delivery, and administering vaccines across all age groups in varied settings.

Responsibilities

• Clinical assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating activities along with wider disease prevention and health promotion activities in a variety of settings.
• 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.

Job description

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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
• 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.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagementin 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.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out morehttps://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev

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