Job Description
Our approach in delivering the immunisation services is innovative, refreshing and above all caring. We are committed to putting young people and service user care first. The team aims to meet national and local targets set for the uptake of all immunisations and raise awareness across all communities within Northumberland, North Tyneside, Newcastle and Gateshead. The post holder will work in a variety of settings, including schools, clinics and community venues to deliver the school aged immunisation programme.
All applicants must be a first level nurse. The post holder must have the ability to adapt to service need. The successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the Trust.
The post holder will support with improving the uptake rate and safe delivery of a large scale immunisation programme within community and educational settings contributing towards the public health agenda by improving health outcomes for children and young people.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
The primary immunisation programme represents a key public health measure which contributes to the reduction of health inequalities and to the achievement of national and local health objectives through the focus on prevention care for school aged children.
The post holder will support with improving the uptake rate and safe delivery of a large scale immunisation programme within community and educational settings contributing towards the public health agenda by improving health outcomes for children and young people.
- To support the Lead Nurse-Immunisation Team in the delivery of the School aged Public health England immunisation programme across Northumbria Healthcare Trust.
- To participate in clinical area evaluation, supporting the constant evolution of the school aged child immunisation programme
- Responsible for ensuring appropriate client safety and that clinical governance indicators and measures are in place in accordance with organisational strategy, policies and procedures.
- To provide support for children, young people and their families to enable them to access the immunisation programme through informed consent for vaccination.
- To liaise with partner agencies to ensure effective and efficient delivery of the immunisation programme by meeting the needs of all client groups; e.g. schools, both mainstream and special schools, home educated children and GP’s.