Main area Qualified Nurse Grade Band 5 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Cover maternity leave) Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Week days, weekends) Job ref 319-7931852LH
Employer Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site North Tyneside General Hospital Town North Shields Salary £32,073 - £39,043 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/06/2026 23:59
Band 5
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly established and innovative team within Occupational Health and Wellbeing Services. The Vaccination Team is dedicated to improving health outcomes by increasing vaccination uptake and coverage for staff, patients and pregnant women, helping to protect communities from preventable diseases.
The successful candidate will work across Northumberland and North Tyneside on a 7-day rota, contributing to a flexible and responsive service. The team promotes a positive working culture and supports a healthy work–life balance.
The main base for this role will be North Tyneside General Hospital; however, the post holder will be required to work across the wider Trust as needed. A full UK driving licence and access to a car are essential. Applicants must also have completed their preceptorship.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The primary immunisation programme is a key public health initiative, contributing to the reduction of health inequalities and supporting the achievement of both national and local health objectives.
The post holder will support the safe and effective delivery of a large-scale vaccination programme across hospital and community settings. This includes working to improve vaccination uptake rates and contributing to the wider public health agenda by enhancing health outcomes for both staff and patients.
The role involves close collaboration with Occupational Health and Wellbeing colleagues to deliver pre-employment vaccinations and undertake immunisation assessments for staff.
The post holder will demonstrate compassionate and inclusive leadership, helping to foster a positive and collective leadership culture within the Trust. This includes adopting a consistent leadership approach that:
* engages, enables, and empowers others
* uses coaching to support learning, development, and continuous quality improvement
* promotes effective teamwork and collaboration within teams, across departments, and with wider organisational partners
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Vaccination nurse work autonomously and as part of a team, to provide a high quality service to staff and patients. They will be responsible for ensuring appropriate client safety whilst adhering to policies and procedures. To provide information to staff and patients to enable them to access the vaccination programme through informed consent.
Person specification
Qualifications
* 1st Level live NMC Registered Nurse
* Awareness of vaccination schedule and Immunisation against infectious disease: Green Book
* Mentor qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for this post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period)
* City & Guilds 730 teaching qualification or similar
Experience and Knowledge
* Experience of delivering vaccinations within hospitals and community settings
Other Requirements
* You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Danielle Robinson Job title Lead Immunisation Nurse Email address danielle.robinson@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk Telephone number 07967813265
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