Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Vaccination team
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 7 months (Start date 02/09/2024 to 31/03/2025)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 382-FICC166-24
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Annes Primary Care Centre
- Town
- St Annes
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse School Based Vaccination Team
NHS AfC: Band 5
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit to our school age vaccination team to support delivery of the national school programme.
We are seeking to recruit a registered nurse to be part of our innovative and dynamic Immunisation Team, dedicated to protecting the health of our populations across Blackpool, Wyre, Fylde and Lancaster localities through improving immunisation uptakes and delivering the school based immunisation programme, which includes the childhood flu programme.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve promoting and delivering the National Vaccination Programme across schools, nurseries and in the community.
Gaining telephone consents from parents for their child's vaccinations.
Applicants should have, and be able to demonstrate, good communication and organisational skills along with good IT skills and the ability to work well within a team and independently.
Please note that these roles involve working at base and in schoosl and community sessions across the Trust footprint supporting the immunisation team, therefore flexibility and an ability to travel are essential requirements of this post. The Trust footprint covers Morecambe Bay and the Fylde Coast.
The post is based at St Annes Primary Care Centre but the role will involve travelling to schools and clinics across the whole footprint.
Hours to be worked over 3 to 4 days, dependant on the needs of the service, on a fixed term basis- term time only.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.
As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents – it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work as part of the Vaccination & Immunisation Team, taking a key role in the promotion, provision and delivery of the School Age Immunisation Programme.
To offer immunisations to the eligible cohorts of school age children, as directed by NHS England and Public Health England.
Working as part of Universal Children’s Services, immunisations will be delivered in all schools, and community clinics as necessary.
For more information please see the attached job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Current, valid NMC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Professional Development
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience of working in the community
- Understanding the health needs of children
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children
- Experience of working across professional boundaries
- Experience of multi-agency working
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to immunise
- Standard IT skills and ability to communicate through IT using packages such as Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
- Organisational skills
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
- Time management and prioritisation skills
- Ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people
- Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues
- Has a good understanding of the Safeguarding agenda
- Can demonstrate an ability to contribute towards a safe environment
- Is up-to-date with health agenda both locally and nationally
- Can demonstrate how s/he has promoted ‘best practice’
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work
- Recognises the limits of own authority within the role
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
- Understands the principle of confidentiality
- Demonstrates professional curiosity
- Aware of the range of emotions in self and others
- Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
- Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings
- Shows respect for others’ feelings, views and circumstances
- Has a balanced understanding of self and others
- Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development
- Can demonstrate flexibility of approach
- Shows a realistic appreciation of the challenges of working with children and young people
- Ability to travel across the Trust footprint, sometimes at short notice
- Full driving license
- Flexibility to support the delivery of the immunisation programme.
Desirable criteria
- Report writing skills
- Working knowledge of EMIS
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Beverley Watson
- Job title
- Team Leader/Clinical Lead School Vaccination Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 951984
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