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Job overview

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Senior Immunisation Nurse for individuals experienced in delivering children’s vaccination programmes who would like to develop their management and leadership skills.

This leadership role requires a motivated professional with excellent communication skills who is capable of providing clinical expertise and leadership to team members. 

The post holder will require the appropriate knowledge and skills in school aged immunisation to be able to support teams, provide training and assist in the planning and delivery of the vaccine programmes and BCG countrywide service.

You will support service change and development to ensure a robust service. You will be responsible for providing supervision, teaching and mentoring of staff, assessing risk and ensuring the safety of young people and employees.

The post holder will work closely with the Head of Service to regularly analyse and review service delivery and ensure it remains effective and responsive whilst adhering to all statutory guidance.

We are looking for applicants who can work flexibly to meet the needs of the Service, this will include the requirement to be able to work the occasional evening and weekend.

For further information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Caroline Halford, Head of School Aged Immunisations, email: [email protected] or mobile: 07717548759

Main duties of the job

The purpose of this post is to support the Head of School Aged Immunisations in managing to deliver the Commissioned BCG Programme and School Aged Immunisation Programmes  seamlessly to children and young people in the 0-19 age range, and their families.  

This will include assisting and supporting in all day-to-day management of a group of staff, including clinical professionals and support staff, partnership working and liaising with other organisations.

This will also include personnel  and information management, as well as day to day co-ordination of the service to ensure continuity and the most effective use of resources to meet the needs of the countywide service.

• The post holder will work in collaboration with the Head of School Aged Immunisations to ensure alignment of professional priorities with the organisational priorities and core business
• Deliver operational management for the Immunisation Team assuming continuous responsibility for appropriate allocation of workload and effectively manage the team through supervision processes
• Provide strong professional leadership
• Ensure effective performance management of the Team
• To act as an exemplary role model providing the highest standards of evidence based clinical practice, promoting and monitoring safe and effective practice

Working for our organisation

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust. 

The annual NHS Staff Survey  gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.  For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%).   It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users; 
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work; 
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative     

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.