Vaccination and Immunisation Coordinator

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Liverpool is seeking an experienced Immunization Team Leader to oversee the immunization program for children. You will manage a team, provide clinical guidance, and ensure high-quality care through training and operational management. The ideal candidate will have a strong nursing background and exemplary leadership abilities, with a commitment to community health and patient advocacy.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Professional development opportunities

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Nurse with experience in childhood immunization.
• Proven track record of managing clinical operations.
• Strong communication skills for interaction with patients and staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead the immunization team and manage daily operations.
• Advise on vaccinations and health education.
• Train and mentor new staff and students in immunization practices.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Communication skills

Team management

Training and development

Organizational skills

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Overview

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Responsibilities

• The post holder will be a member of Immunisation team and work alongside the Immunisation Team Leader providing professional support and leadership to team members.
• The role combines both managerial and clinical elements; you will provide day to day management for the immunisation team whilst supporting the delivery of the national childhood immunisation programme across the Mersey Care Footprint.
• You will also provide expert advice to the wider 0 - 19 children's nursing teams in addition to practice nurses, parents, carers, and children and young people advising about immunisations.
• Operational management of the Immunisation team including personal development reviews, supervision, assist with recruitment, selection, induction and retention of staff.
• You will be involved in education and clinical practice development, including providing training to Mersey Care Staff and be involved in audit and policy reviews as required.
• You will be responsible for the organisation, smooth running and administration of the nurse led immunisation sessions across the wide variety of venues that are utilised.
• You will also be active in the follow up of non-immunised children/ defaulters; providing information, advice and updating data as required, liaising closely with relevant health professionals, and making appropriate arrangements or referrals.
• To take the lead on immunisation training courses, support competency building of new immunisers and to act as an expert resource for health professionals and parents.
• Assist with any local & national immunisation campaigns including outbreaks.
• Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high-quality care to children and young people.
• Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, considering competence.
• Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
• Provide advice to patients, clients and carers on vaccinations and a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice and health care.
• Provide clinical support and training to experienced and new staff within the immunisation team and wider Mersey Care child health teams.
• In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to Children, young people and their families.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with relevant agencies and professionals across health, social care and education services.
• Maintain registration in line with professional requirements.
• Clinically lead, direct, mentor and support the team with regular clinical and managerial supervision.
• To demonstrate leadership by means of effective change within own scope of practice, when and where appropriate.
• Making recommendations to improve practice identified through influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the Trust.
• To demonstrate accountability in the use and management of all resources including financial resources.
• To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and work within a legal framework with patients and carers who may have difficulties understanding complex information due to speech and language difficulties, sensory loss, learning difficulties, depression etc.
• Acts as an advocate for the patient and continually demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, carers and children and young people.
• Be a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care.
• Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.
• Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team canvas.
• Provide information to the team leader on staff and patient/client activity as requested, to enable the effective management of the service.
• Support the team leader in the implementation of practice development, improvement and service modernisation initiatives.
• Support the team leader by monitoring and recording sickness and absence, capability and other issues within the team, reporting them as soon as possible.
• In conjunction with others, provide day-to-day supervision and support for the team.
• Support the team leader in providing induction to the local working environment, clinical services and policies for new team members.
• Undertake personal development plans with other members of the team, as delegated.
• Act as an authorised signatory for mileage and timecards for submission.
• To be responsible and accountable for your own work including the management of patients that are in your team.
• To perform clinical and environmental risk assessments to optimise the health and safety of patients and staff in a variety of settings.
• To be responsible for the clinical assessment of children requiring immunisation which includes planning, administration, education and offering appropriate support and guidance to parents/carers.
• To coordinate the ordering of vaccines, equipment and their safe storage by support staff, ensuring emergency equipment/ drugs are in date and easily accessible.
• To liaise with GPs to obtain accurate immunisation histories from their records, to support planning and ensure accurate and up to date patient records.
• To be a resource providing professional expert advice regarding immunisations to peers, colleagues, GPs, parents and carers.
• To be able to seek further specialist advice and act upon if appropriate or to signpost as required.
• To be competent and confident in offering a nurse-led immunisation service working mostly under the legal framework of Patient Group Directions: Routine Child Immunisations School based immunisations Fluenz.
• Maintains competency in emergency treatment (faints/ anaphylaxis) and ensures access to emergency equipment.
• Participate in individual and group supervision.
• Monitor record keeping within the team and inform the team leader of any concerns or incidents.
• Support the training and development of team members who need to improve on the level of patient care; this includes record keeping and improving clinical competency.
• Support the implementation of any initiatives to improve quality of care within the clinical governance.
• Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
• Work with the team leader to ensure achievement of your own personal development.
• Maintain up to date knowledge and competence in line with professional and service requirements and demonstrate critical thinking, decision-making and reflective skills to ensure own professional registration.
• Support the Team Leader in creating an environment in which learning, and practice development is fostered, evaluated and implemented.
• Facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and new staff.
• Facilitate pre and post registration student placements within the service.
• Participation in clinical audits and research, as required.
• The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
• The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.

Additional information

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form. Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children's & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.