Immunisation/Vaccination Nurse - Waltham Forest

Job summary

Promote and support the operation of our School Aged Immunisation Service. Our services are primarily delivered on-site in schools for children of primary and secondary age, however, we also deliver these immunisations in community clinic settings.

Main duties of the job

• Work collaboratively to support the team, organisation, and company stakeholders, to facilitate the smooth continuity of service delivery.
• Deliver an effective, evidence based and competent level of care to patients.
• Accountable for the assessment, planning, implementation, auditing, and the evaluation of nursing practices.
• Facilitate training and participate in clinical supervision and the performance and development of staff.
• Work within the regulatory compliance standards such CQC, NaTHNaC, PHE or PHS as applicable.
• Assist in assessing clinical competencies, in line with RCN competency recommendations.
• Assist in Mentoring clinical staff commensurate with own competencies.
• Ensure all clinical incidents, near misses and complaints are reported, monitored and processed in line with organisational policies and procedures.
• Participate in audits, making recommendations based on findings and share outcomes with the team for learning.
• Actively and constructively contribute to team meetings.
• Assist the Team Lead and Clinical Director as applicable.
• Flexible working across clinical locations and corporate sites as applicable.
• Support the management of HR personnel as applicable with post.
• Attend, support and deputise meetings as requested from the Lead Nurse.
• Comply with Company policies & procedures.
• Undertake duties commensurate with the level of this position.

About us

Since 2015, NHS England has contracted Vaccination UK, a dynamic and rapidly growing company, to provide school-aged immunisations, including influenza vaccinations, to students in many counties and boroughs across England, including the Black Country, Hertfordshire, Hereford and Worcester, and nine North East London boroughs.

We have a number of bank positions to cover our School aged Flu immunisation programme.