Job summary
- Main area
- Immunisation
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hours negotiable)
- Job ref
- 779-NN-6708535-N&M-Y
- Employer
- Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wandsworth
- Town
- Wandsworth
- Salary
- £35,964 - £43,780 p.a. pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Inner)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Immunisation Nurse
Band 5
On 1st November 2024, our name will be changing to Kingston & Richmond NHS Foundation Trust. To find out more, please visit: https://kingstonhospital.nhs.uk/about-us/better-together-our-partnership-with-hrch/
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*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
Job overview
Wandsworth Immunisation Nurses
Immunisations are an important part of the healthy child programme for school-age children.
We are looking for enthusiastic nurses interested in flexible hours to join our Immunisation teams in Wandsworth to help deliver the school immunisation programmes in schools and in the community. Full training and support will be provided.
In order to give your application the best opportunity, please ensure that you address all the requirements of the person specification when writing your supporting statement.
Car driver essential.
Main duties of the job
To participate in School Age/BCG immunisations programme, including administration of the inhaled influenza vaccination.
To assist in the planning, preparation and delivery of school, community and home immunisation services
To encourage children, parents/carers to participate in the immunisation programmes in line with the Department of Health policy.
To ensure children and parents/carers have adequate evidence based information to allow them to make an informed choice regarding immunisations.
To participate in the school immunisation programme ensuring policies and procedures are adhered to enabling safe effective administration of immunisations in the school setting.
To prepare and assist with immunisation satellite clinics held within the Trust.
Working for our organisation
At HRCH, we only want to provide the type of outstanding care that we would recommend to our family and friends.
We provide community healthcare and urgent treatment services for over 515,000 people living across the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond-Upon-Thames.
In the latest NHS Staff Survey results for community trusts, we had the highest percentage of staff in the country who felt their role made a difference to patients. We also had top scores for satisfaction with the quality of care staff can deliver.
We are the top community trust in the country for Staff engagement, Quality of care and Quality of appraisals, according to the theme results in the 2019 staff survey. In 2018 we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times and won the HSJ Workforce Award.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of deference against COVID19.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see whole Job Description & Personal Spec. attached to this site
For more information about this roles please contact:
Team Lead Sabrina John 07917 093429
Person specification
Qualifications and knowledge
Essential criteria
- RN (NMC registered)
Personal attributes
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in or knowledge of public health
Essential
Essential criteria
- Car driver
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Sabrina John
- Job title
- Immunisation Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917 093429
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