Senior Specialist Immunisation Practitioner

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust; Leigh on Sea; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust is seeking a BCG/Hep B senior specialist immunisation practitioner to lead local vaccination programmes. The role requires expertise in delivering vaccinations and driving improvements in community health services. Applicants should possess strong leadership and collaboration skills within a diverse healthcare setting.

Benefits

Diverse and inclusive workforce

Opportunities for informal visits

Employee benefits and support

Qualifications

• Experience delivering BCG vaccinations.
• Experience with community health services.
• Ability to manage and lead a vaccination team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver BCG and Hepatitis B immunisation programmes.
• Support service evaluations and improvements.
• Collaborate with Immunisation teams and local providers.

Skills

Leadership

Experience in delivering vaccinations

Collaboration

Service improvement

Job description

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust (HCT) provides community-based healthcare services across the East of England with a value driven approach that is innovative, caring and agile. HCT's Community and School Aged Immunisation Service (CSAIS) works together with other stakeholders to identify eligible individuals and provide immunisations in community and school settings, as well as providing dynamic responses to disease outbreaks wherever required.

The BCG/Hep B senior specialist immunisation practitioner is a vaccinating and leadership role within the community & school aged immunisation team.

The role requires experience of delivering BCG vaccinations in addition to other routine vaccinations.

• Lead the local area team in the delivery of the BCG and Hepatitis B immunisation programmes. To support the local CSAIS team with other programmes, when required.
• To feed into service evaluations and service improvements, growing the service based on the needs to the local populations, to include other clinic based vaccination programmes, such as the under 5s.
• To work collaboratively with the Immunisation teams to provide a service which meets the KPIs and expectations of the commissioners.
• To work with local statutory, private and voluntary providers and users to develop and promote practice that is accessible and responsive to all sections of the local community, ensuring that services are targeted to the most vulnerable groups and individuals to support social inclusion.
  
  

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities

Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages

We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now

You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sharon Barker Job title: BCG/HepB Clinical LEad Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07741521454