Job overview

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust (HCT) provides community-based healthcare services in the East of England with a value driven approach that is innovative, caring and agile.  

The role is to lead the immunisation team based at Witham, to deliver the commissioned vaccination programmes in schools and community settings.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the local immunisation team, being responsible for the co-ordination of the service and working with colleagues to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective Community and School Age programme. 
• To work collaboratively with external partners and the child health teams in the planning and delivery of immunisation programmes in schools and community settings in order to achieve the KPIs across the programme. 
• To work with local statutory, private and voluntary providers and users to develop and promote practice that is accessible and responsive to all sections of the local community, ensuring that services are targeted to the most vulnerable groups and individuals to support social inclusion. 
• To work to Patient Group Directions, Patient Specific Directions and Immunisation Standard Operation Procedures to organise and manage the Community and School age Immunisation Programmes.  
• To act as a lead within the team to improve uptake of the immunisation programmes within the local population. To carry out immunisations in a variety of venues which may include schools, community clinics and homes.

Working for our organisation

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities 

Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages

We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now

You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.

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