Job overview
Would you like to work with one of the top performing school aged immunisation team in the South East? Come and join us at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.
We are working hard to ensure that all school aged children have access to Immunisations to protect them from vaccine preventable diseases.
This role is community based supporting the clinical team at immunisation sessions. The successful candidate will need to have good communication skills. Be organised and be able to work autonomously as well as part of the team.
The immunisation team administer vaccines in every school in Buckinghamshire and therefore the successful candidate will need to have a full driving licence and access to a car during the day with business insurance.
The successful candidate will also be trained to administer nasal flu vaccine.
Full training for the role will be given.
Main duties of the job
·Preparation of equipment and resources prior to the immunisation session, and transporting them to the school. Setting up & packing away afterwards.
·Attend school based immunisations sessions and support immunisation nurses and young people on the day of the immunisation.
· Liaising with school staff on day of immunisation, ensuring young people are brought down to be vaccinated in a timely way.
· Ensuring that valid consent is received from those young people without consent forms. (Self consent using Frazer Guidelines).
·To be aware of the confidential nature of the work.
·Work within Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Children Code of Practice and Procedures.
· Liaising with partners to ensure vulnerable and home schooled children are offered their scheduled immunisations.
· Assist nursing staff with catch up clinic and manage young people to be vaccinated in waiting area.
· Ensure stock/equipment levels are maintained and additional stock/equipment is ordered when required.
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
1. As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
2. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
3. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
4. We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
5. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
6. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
7. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
8. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
9. Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
10. Good literary and numeric skills
11. Level (3) NVQ or equivalent
12. Have the ability to undertake training to acquire the skills appropriate for development in the post
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
13. Able to work as part of a team
14. Awareness of diverse cultural issues
15. Able to work under own initiative
16. Able to recognise grade responsibilities and can report back to senior level of staff
Desirable criteria
17. Able to handle and move equipment
18. Good IT skills
EXPERIENCE
Desirable criteria
19. Previous NHS/Social care /Voluntary organisation experience
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
20. Full UK driving licence, use of a car during the day and business insurance
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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