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Band 5 Immunisation Nurse
Term Time Only - 24hrs per week
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Immunisation Nurse to join our School Age Immunisation Service.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic team delivering high-quality vaccination programmes to children and young people across educational settings. The role is term time only and is ideal for a nurse who is passionate about public health, health promotion, and improving vaccination uptake within the community.
To be successful with this post, you must live in the UK and have a full NMC registration. You must also possess a valid driving license and have access to your own car for this role. Mileage will be paid for work-related travel.
To plan, assess, implement, and evaluate nursing interventions for the client group In conjunction with the Band 6 nurse, to clinically prioritise and organise the immunisation and vaccination schedule for the school year, making sure all eligible school aged children are offered the correct vaccination at the correct time To be responsible for immunisation sessions at school and in clinic, providing supervision for junior staff, assessing risk, and ensuring the safety of the young people Contribute towards the development of public health initiatives to meet the needs of identified target groups and carry out public health immunisation promotional activities through integration and effective partnership working. To manage Case load of schools as Named Nurse responsible for understanding the demographic of said schools. To plan and complete health promotion to address health equalities identified within case load.
To work with young people, families, schools and communities to provide advice and support to children, families, schools and communities on a range of immunisation issues To develop and support the PSHE programmes within the school curriculum to aid the uptake of immunisation within schools and the community, building on current relationships and partnerships; To plan, deliver and evaluate vaccination sessions / health promotion / health education activities to target both local and national drivers for childhood immunisation schedules To ensure timely and accurate data entry to demonstrate improving data quality on the electronic system To professionally conduct yourself to ensure that you are an ambassador for your profession and the service that you work within and the Trust as a whole. The post holder is required to remain eligible for Nurse Registration through participation in appraisal, clinical supervision and continuous professional development To participate and contribute to the development of training programmes, protocols, care pathways, and procedures as directed by clinical lead To identify children and young people who need protection, which may include the interpretation of complex information about the child and family To be able to work unsocial hours, e.g. weekends and early evenings, and support other immunisation programmes across the trust, as required.
Communication
To maintain excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to communicate with a large range of people, varying the communication accordingly To facilitate children and young people and / or carers to engage in the immunisation and vaccination schedule To use negotiation skills in the management of conflict across a range of situations and seek advice and support to resolve difficulties To work with children/young people, carers, families, and other professionals and agencies, agreeing decisions relevant to the child/young person and family To attend and contribute to staff and team meetings To facilitate effective communication with children/young people, carers, families, and colleagues, particularly where significant barriers to understanding exist, for example, in clients with communication difficulties To adapt practice to meet individual child/young person circumstances with due regard for cultural, social, and linguistic differences To support the directorate in participating in the complaints process as directed
Analytical and Judgemental Skills / Freedom to Act
The post holder will work in a school, community or home environment assessing children, young people, and adults and deciding on the best course of action. Advice and direction will be available from the Leadership Team To make clinical decisions and support others to make decisions in a range of situations where there may be complex or ethical considerations, e.g. assessing capacity to consent in under 16s To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice where appropriate To work within the NMC code of conduct and within the Trust guidelines and protocols Be able to effectively make decisions with support regarding safeguarding children and be able to interpret the available information
Planning and Organisational Skills
To be flexible to the demands of the environment including unpredictable work patterns, deadlines, and frequent interruptions. To be responsible for the effective management of own caseload
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
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