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An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint an inspirational and enthusiastic Senior Immunisation Nurse on a 22.5 hour basis. This senior role requires an individual to be an experienced professional in delivering children’s vaccination programmes. We are looking for someone who would like to develop their management and leadership skills.
This leadership role requires a motivated professional with excellent communication skills capable of providing clinical expertise and leadership to team members.
The role will require the appropriate knowledge and skills in school aged immunisation to support the team, provide training and assist in the planning and delivery of the vaccine programmes and BCG service.
You will support service change and development to ensure a robust service. You will be responsible for providing supervision, teaching and mentoring of staff, assessing risk and ensuring the safety of young people and employees.
The post holder will work closely with the Head of Service to analyse and review service delivery and ensure it remains effective and responsive whilst adhering to all statutory guidance.
We seek applicants who can work flexibly to meet the needs of the Service, including the requirement to be able to work the occasional evening and weekend.
Previous applicants need not apply.
The purpose of this post is to support the Head of School Aged Immunisations in managing to deliver the Commissioned BCG Programme and School Aged Immunisation Programmes seamlessly to children and young people in the 0-19 age range, and their families.
This will include assisting and supporting in all day-to-day management of a group of staff, including clinical professionals and support staff, partnership working and liaising with other organisations.
This will also include personnel and information management, as well as day to day co-ordination of the service to ensure continuity and the most effective use of resources to meet the needs of the countywide service.
* The post holder will work in collaboration with the Head of School Aged Immunisations to ensure alignment of professional priorities with the organisational priorities and core business
* Deliver operational management for the Immunisation Team assuming continuous responsibility for appropriate allocation of workload and effectively manage the team through supervision processes
* Provide strong professional leadership
* Ensure effective performance management of the Team
* To act as an exemplary role model providing the highest standards of evidence based clinical practice, promoting and monitoring safe and effective practice
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
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Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Caroline Halford Job title: Head of School Aged Immunisation Team Email address: Management.Immunisations@ghc.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07717 548759
We welcome prospective candidates to contact the service and arrange an informal visit - contact information below.
Caroline Halford, Head of School Aged Immunisations:- Management.Immunisations@ghc.nhs.uk or mobile: 07717548759
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