Vaccinator for the Berkshire Immunisation Team

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the BerkshireImmunisation Team based in the West of Berkshire. The Immunisation team is responsible for providing routine and catch-up Immunisations to children and young people in schools and community settings across Berkshire and support the delivery of flu and covid to employees of Berkshire Healthcare.

We are looking for a self-motivated and dynamic registered Nurse, Midwife or Paramedic who has experience of working with children and young people in the community and who is passionate about the public health benefits of vaccination.

The role is term time only + 1 or 2 weeks (40 or 41 weeks) in the Berkshire West Team (covering Wokingham, Reading and West Berkshire). You will be expected to travel across all three localities to visit schools, support clinics and collect and return vaccine to different bases.

We are looking for someone to work 37.5 hours over 5 days per week, term time only (40 or 41 weeks). It is important that you can be available from 8am on some days to support the collection of vaccines, otherwise start time will be from 08:30. Core hours are between 08:30 and 16:30 and we require someone who is flexible in their approach to their working pattern, which may include starting later if there is a later clinic being held on a certain day.

Please note all holidays must be taken within the school holidays.

Main duties of the job

• To work as a skilled team member to provide excellent standards of vaccinations and public health advice around vaccine preventable diseases to children, a young people, adults (up to the age of 25 in SEN schools) and their families across a variety of community settings.

• To assess and triage consent forms to ensure that children and young people are clinically able to receive the vaccinations they have consented to, in line with the National Patient Group Direction (PGD) or National Protocol (NP) for the vaccination programme, adapting communication to aid understanding.

• To undertake the Lead Vaccinator role with several schools across Berkshire, ensuring that sessions are planned and communicated to provide and safe and effective immunisation session.

• To demonstrate ability to make safe clinical decisions within an emergency e.g. anaphylaxis

• Manages own workload, co-ordinating and prioritising the school sessions/ clinics you lead on. Recognises his/her limitations and seeks advice and support from Team Leads.

• Maintains stock control to ensure adequate equipment to run clinics and administer vaccinations. Responsible for the safe collection, storage and transportation of vaccinations.

• Actively engages in health promotion, as required to improve uptake in your designated schools.

• Plans follow up school and community sessions, in instances where uptake is low/ absentee rate is high.

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites