Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6369507JN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
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Senior Vaccination Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a pioneering new team within Occupational Health and Wellbeing Services. The vaccination team's goal is to improve health and well-being by increasing vaccination rates and coverage, thereby protecting people from preventable diseases. The post holder will work across Northumberland and North Tyneside, covering a 7 day working week.
We are looking to recruit a motivated, enthusiastic and innovative individual to help deliver and develop the service alongside team leads.
We pride ourselves in working flexibly to meet the needs of the service, as well as promoting a positive culture and work/life balance.
A car driver is essential.
The base for this post will be North Tyneside General Hospital.
Main duties of the job
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.
The post holder will work as part of the vaccination team and will be responsible for ensuring that the uptake rate and safe delivery of a large scale vaccination programme within hospital and community settings is adhered to.
They will assess, plan and implement and contribute towards the public health agenda by improving health outcomes staff and patients.
To assist the Lead Immunisation Nurse coordination of hospital hubs and roving vaccination teams.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Working for our organisation
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide day to day leadership for our team of vaccination nurses and liaise with service providers and users, under the guidance of the Lead nurse.
- Involvement in the development and service delivery, developing protocols and audits.
- Work in an interdisciplinary manner, to provide high quality care.
- Provide training and education to colleagues, staff and patients, whilst understanding potential barriers for vaccinations.
- Manage and evaluate vaccination sessions within hospital and community venues.
- They will ensure the smooth running and administration of all nurse-led vaccination sessions, and optimise the uptake of vaccinations via promotion of public health strategies and close liaison with business unit representatives, ward / department managers and staff.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Nursing Degree or Specialist Qualification SCPHN or Previous/significant essential experience in vaccination delivery
- Mentoring/Teaching in practice facilitation Qualification eg ENB 998/ Mentoring in Practice.
- Valid NMC qualification
- Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
Desirable criteria
- Foundation in management course / LEO training or equivalent
- C & G 730 or similar
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of nursing in the community setting
- Experience of change management
- Experience of multi-agency working
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working with and young people
- Knowledge of people management
- Knowledge of the Department of Health Green Book.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of further relevant study / on-going professional development
Desirable criteria
- Relevant clinical skills relating to this speciality
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
- Danielle Robinson
- Job title
- Lead Immunisation Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07967813265
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