Senior Immunisation Nurse

Integrated Care System; England; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Part time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking a part-time Senior Immunisation Nurse to lead the delivery of immunisation programmes for children. The role involves providing clinical expertise and leadership, managing a team, and ensuring the safety of young patients. Applicants should have a nursing degree and experience working with children. This position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children or families in a community setting.
• Evidence of safeguarding children experience.
• Ability to manage own workload without direct supervision.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of BCG and other school-based immunisation programmes.
• Provide training and mentorship to staff.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding protocols.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Clinical expertise

Leadership and management skills

Education

Degree or equivalent in nursing

Active Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council

Postgraduate qualification (e.g. SCHPHN)

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Immunisation Nurse

The closing date is 02 September 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint an inspirational and enthusiastic Senior Immunisation Nurse on a 22.5 hour basis. This senior role requires an individual to be an experienced professional in delivering children's vaccination programmes. We are looking for someone who would like to develop their management and leadership skills.

This leadership role requires a motivated professional with excellent communication skills capable of providing clinical expertise and leadership to team members.

The role will require the appropriate knowledge and skills in school aged immunisation to support the team, provide training and assist in the planning and delivery of the vaccine programmes and BCG service.

You will support service change and development to ensure a robust service. You will be responsible for providing supervision, teaching and mentoring of staff, assessing risk and ensuring the safety of young people and employees.

The post holder will work closely with the Head of Service to analyse and review service delivery and ensure it remains effective and responsive whilst adhering to all statutory guidance.

We seek applicants who can work flexibly to meet the needs of the Service, including the requirement to be able to work the occasional evening and weekend.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of this post is to support the Head of School Aged Immunisations in managing to deliver the Commissioned BCG Programme and School Aged Immunisation Programmes seamlessly to children and young people in the 0-19 age range, and their families.

This will include assisting and supporting in all day-to-day management of a group of staff, including clinical professionals and support staff, partnership working and liaising with other organisations.

This will also include personnel and information management, as well as day to day co-ordination of the service to ensure continuity and the most effective use of resources to meet the needs of the countywide service.

• The post holder will work in collaboration with the Head of School Aged Immunisations to ensure alignment of professional priorities with the organisational priorities and core business
• Deliver operational management for the Immunisation Team assuming continuous responsibility for appropriate allocation of workload and effectively manage the team through supervision processes
• Provide strong professional leadership
• Ensure effective performance management of the Team
• To act as an exemplary role model providing the highest standards of evidence based clinical practice, promoting and monitoring safe and effective practice

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

Lead and model clinical practice whilst supporting and encouraging colleagues to reach their potential.

To provide support for the delivery of other school based immunisation programmes.

To actively contribute to the development and co-ordination of health promotion programmes to school aged children to improve the uptake of the school based immunisation programme.

To assist in the planning, co-ordination and delivery of community BCG clinics.

Liaise and work collaboratively with the Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust respiratory team in relation to complex BCG queries.

Maintain contemporaneous, factual records with the child the focus of all assessments and actions in accordance with Public Health Nursing Service guidelines and organisations clinical record keeping policy.

Be proactive in identification of risk factors and signs and symptoms of child abuse and act according to organisation and Gloucestershire Safeguarding Childrens Board protocols at all times.

Liaise collaboratively with Gloucestershires schools, the Child in Care Team and Social Care to ensure children who are vulnerable and or with complex health needs receive the their vaccinations.

The development of training packages and the delivery to school aged children and the PHN Teams, e.g. HPV training programmes or cascade training.

Provide signposting to other services and agencies, referring onwards in a timely manner and liaising appropriately seeking first any necessary consent.

Take and act upon referrals from other agencies and services as appropriate and allocation work appropriately to the Immunisation Team.

To ensure that high standards of infection control are integral to all aspects of nursing practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional, clinical knowledge required through training to degree or equivalent, Active Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on Part 1 or 2 of Register
• ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing/FLAP in absence of degree
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Post graduate qualification e.g. Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCHPHN) Health Visiting or School Nursing

Length and / or Nature of Experience

• Post registration experience of working with children or young people or families or community working
• Evidence of safeguarding children experience - or willingness to undertake appropriate training for role

Professiona/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

• Active Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on Part 1 or 2 of Register
• Knowledge of NMC Professional Codes, Standards and PREP
• Understanding of Government policy in current child health programmes and impact on local needs
• Understanding of critical analysis of the research process and evidence based practice
• To be able to demonstrate a high standard of clinical expertise

Personal Skills Abilities and Attributes

• Confidence to manage own workload without direct supervision
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries between self and clients/students
• Commitment to ongoing development and revalidation portfolio of self and others
• Accurate clinical record keeping following National and Local guidelines
• Provision of accurate data following set systems
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, delegation and supervision skills
• Oral presentation and IT preparation skills
• Ability to travel between base and work related venues
• Requirement to transport equipment e.g. resuscitation equipment, vaccination, transportation of cool boxes, clinical supplies

Other Requirements

• Demands the ability to manage the needs of staff within the Immunisation Team
• Demands ongoing accountability for clients with child accountability for clients with child protection issues, domestic abused, family breakdown, substance misuse, disability and mental issues
• Demands concentration on complex clients related activities and unpredictable client demands
• Involves mostly a combination of sitting, standing and occasional manual handling of clients
• Involves occasions where there may be exposure to body fluids, communicable diseases
• Requires frequent driving to various community settings in all weather conditions and in isolated areas
• On occasions involves working alone in clients' homes
• Requires frequent carrying of heavy and bulky equipment e.g. vaccine porters

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

327-25-496-A

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