About this role
Job summary
The Vaccination Delivery & Intelligence Manager is a senior operational and analytical leadership role within the Vaccinations Team, supporting and coordinating delivery, assurance, and intelligence across Central East.
The postholder provides line management and professional leadership, ensuring consistent operational standards, high-quality outputs, and clear accountability across specific footprints.
A core function of the role is to bring together all vaccination-related operational, performance, and population data into a single view. The postholder translates complex datasets into meaningful operational intelligence, enabling informed decision-making, proactive risk management, and targeted intervention.
Working closely with the Strategic Vaccination Lead, the role bridges strategy and delivery -- ensuring that national and system priorities are translated into actionable insights at place level. The postholder provides assurance on programme performance, highlights unwarranted variation, and supports the reduction of health inequalities through data-driven operational insight.
This role operates across Central East, maintaining a strong understanding of local delivery models, place-based challenges, and neighbourhood variation, while supporting system-wide coherence, governance, and reporting.
Main duties of the job
Line manage staff, including objective setting, supervision, appraisal, performance management, and development. Act as the central coordinating role for vaccination operational intelligence across places and neighbourhoods. Supports alignment between place-based delivery activity and system-level priorities. Pull together data from national and local systems, including FDP, ImmForm, Eclipse, supply and stock dashboards, and place-level reports. Ensure data accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and clarity across all reporting outputs. Analyse vaccination uptake, delivery capacity, access, equity, and supply by Place, PCN, neighbourhood, and priority cohorts. Identify unwarranted variation, delivery challenges, and opportunities for targeted intervention. Produce regular and ad hoc, reports, briefings, and narrative summaries. Provide clear interpretation of trends, risks, and performance issues, with evidence-based recommendations. Monitor delivery performance across all vaccination programmes, highlighting risks, slippage, or emerging pressures. Identify disparities in uptake, access, and delivery affecting priority and underserved populations. Provide insight to support targeted interventions at place and neighbourhood level.
About us
We are committed to promoting equal opportunities to achieve equity of access, experience and outcomes and to recognising and valuing people's differences. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity; we see this as a strength and part of our founding mission, values and behaviours. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers patient outcomes.
We are committed to creating the best place to work, where your contribution is valued, your wellbeing is supported and all our colleagues can reach their full potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their protected characteristic. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone, including making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition and support with the recruitment process for people with lived experience.
We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.
We operate a Carer friendly working environment that is supportive and inclusive. We actively encourage Carers to self-identify themselves.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and commit to shortlisting suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please inform us of any adjustments you may require.
Job description Job responsibilities
For further information on this role please see Job description and Personal Specification attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
oEducated to degree level or equivalent experience in a relevant field (e.g., health, care, public services, management, or related discipline).
Knowledge Essential
oExperience in leading and coordinating projects or services in a multi-agency environment. . oExperience in operational planning, performance monitoring, and delivery of agreed objectives
Skills Essential
oGood analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and use insights to inform decisions and improvements.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name NHS Central East ICB
Address Gemini House
Ely
CB7 4EA
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.centraleast.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)