Vaccinator for the Berkshire Immunisation Team

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a 37.5 hour/ 41-week term time only Vaccinator role in the East of Berkshire.

The Immunisation team is responsible for providing routine and catch-up Immunisation’s 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 (41 weeks) in the Berkshire East Team (covering Slough, RBWM and Bracknell). 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 (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 as well as the occasional weekend clinic.

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.

• 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.

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

• Ensure that parents/carers receive adequate communication, vaccine specific information and are fully informed of sessions taking place involving the vaccination of their child e.g. additional catch-up sessions in school.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

1. A passion for immunisations and the public health benefits they provide.

2. A flexible approach to work

3. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate with people of all ages.

4. A desire to make a difference and to work within a caring profession

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to email [email protected].uk and [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.