Job Overview
The Antenatal and Newborn Screening Team at Frimley Park Hospital is pleased to announce an opportunity for a Band 5 Nurse to join their team. This role will require the successful candidate to work 22.5 hours a week, over 3 week days (7.5 hours each day).
The successful applicant will join the team of Specialist Midwives and Immunisation Nurses to ensure that the National Antenatal and Newborn Screening programmes are delivered safely and effectively within the service at Frimley Health.
We work closely with NHS England’s regional screening and immunisation teams and support the maternal and neonatal immunisation service within our organisation.
Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential as this is a very busy but unique role that will allow the successful applicant to develop skills in the management of service that affects all areas of maternity care.
Computer Literacy skills including familiarity with Microsoft Office packages including Word, Publisher, Excel and PowerPoint are essential for this role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will play a key role in supporting the delivery of vaccination programmes within the maternity and neonatal services. This includes administering the targeted neonatal BCG vaccination to eligible newborns in line with national guidelines, ensuring timely and accurate documentation, and supporting families with information and aftercare advice.
The role will also involve supporting the delivery of the maternal vaccination programme for pregnant women, including vaccines such as whooping cough and COVID-19. This includes providing evidence-based information, obtaining informed consent, administering vaccines safely, and maintaining accurate clinical records.
In addition, the post holder will contribute to the Trust’s annual winter flu vaccination campaign by promoting vaccine uptake among service users and staff, delivering flu vaccinations in designated clinical areas, and supporting the monitoring of coverage rates.
Across all responsibilities, the post holder will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, adhere to infection prevention and control protocols, maintain cold chain storage standards, and contribute to service improvement through feedback and audit participation.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Nurse with current NMC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven ability to prioritise and organise own workload
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience with immunisation programmes
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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