About this role
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly established and innovative team within Occupational Health and Wellbeing Services. The Vaccination Team is dedicated to improving health outcomes by increasing vaccination uptake and coverage for staff, patients and pregnant women, helping to protect communities from preventable diseases.
The successful candidate will work across Northumberland and North Tyneside on a 7-day rota, contributing to a flexible and responsive service. The team promotes a positive working culture and supports a healthy work-life balance.
The main base for this role will be North Tyneside General Hospital; however, the post holder will be required to work across the wider Trust as needed. A full UK driving licence and access to a car are essential. Applicants must also have completed their preceptorship.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The primary immunisation programme is a key public health initiative, contributing to the reduction of health inequalities and supporting the achievement of both national and local health objectives.
The post holder will support the safe and effective delivery of a large-scale vaccination programme across hospital and community settings. This includes working to improve vaccination uptake rates and contributing to the wider public health agenda by enhancing health outcomes for both staff and patients.
The role involves close collaboration with Occupational Health and Wellbeing colleagues to deliver pre-employment vaccinations and undertake immunisation assessments for staff.
The post holder will demonstrate compassionate and inclusive leadership, helping to foster a positive and collective leadership culture within the Trust. This includes adopting a consistent leadership approach that:
engages, enables, and empowers others uses coaching to support learning, development, and continuous quality improvement promotes effective teamwork and collaboration within teams, across departments, and with wider organisational partners
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
Vaccination nurse work autonomously and as part of a team, to provide a high quality service to staff and patients. They will be responsible for ensuring appropriate client safety whilst adhering to policies and procedures. To provide information to staff and patients to enable them to access the vaccination programme through informed consent.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
1st Level live NMC Registered Nurse Awareness of vaccination schedule and Immunisation against infectious disease: Green Book Mentor qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for this post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period)
Desirable
City & Guilds 730 teaching qualification or similar Diploma / degree in Nursing
Experience and Knowledge Desirable
Experience of delivering vaccinations within hospitals and community settings
Other Requirements Essential
You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address North Tyneside General Hospital
Rake Lane
North Shields
NE29 8NH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)