Job overview

Be Part of Our Team....

An exciting opportunity has arisen for flexible, reliable, highly motivated, enthusiastic Band 5 Community Immuniser(s) to join our School Aged Immunisation Team in Gloucestershire.  Full-time or part-time basis. 

The Immunisation Team work in a variety of settings, including schools, clinics and community venues to deliver all school-aged national routine childhood Immunisation Programmes to school aged children and young people across Gloucestershire. 

The successful candidates will demonstrate enthusiasm, energy and a passion for delivering the best care possible and have some knowledge of the childhood immunisation schedule.   The job role requires good time management and IT skills and you will be expected to work on your own initiative as well as within a team.

We are looking for applicants who can work flexibly to meet the needs of the Service, this will include the requirement to be able to work the occasional evenings and weekends.

Main duties of the job

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.  

To actively contribute to the development and co-ordination of health promotion programmes to school aged children to improve the uptake of the school based immunisation programme.

To support the delivery community BCG clinics as required.

Maintain contemporaneous, factual records with the child the focus of all assessments and actions in accordance with Public Health Nursing Service guidelines and organisations clinical record keeping policy.

Be proactive in identification of risk factors and signs and symptoms of child abuse and act according to organisation and Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children’s Board protocols at all times.

Liaise collaboratively with Gloucestershire’s schools, the Child in Care Team and Social Care to ensure children who are vulnerable and or with complex health needs receive the their vaccinations.

Provide signposting to other services and agencies, referring onwards in a timely manner and liaising appropriately seeking first any necessary consent.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

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.

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