Job overview

Public Health/vaccination (Nurse or Midwife) Band 6

St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Tooting, South West London, is a large teaching hospital with a tertiary maternity unit providing care to over 4500 women/ birthing people and babies each year. We take great pride in providing a midwifery service that delivers holistic individual-centred care to our diverse local community. Our enthusiastic multidisciplinary maternity team work in close collaboration in order to meet the specific needs of women/ birthing people who come from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds. We strive to ensure a positive pregnancy and birth experience for women/ birthing people with both complex and uncomplicated pregnancies, excelling both in the provision of high risk care for women/ birthing people who require medical input and increasing our homebirth rate whilst promoting our midwife-led birth centre. 

Main duties of the job

In conjunction with NHS England, in 2018, we commenced the offer of maternal Flu and Pertussis vaccinations. A vaccination team of two Band 5 nurses/midwives with administrative support was created and the role of the team is to focus on the successful implementation of the national maternal vaccination programme. In 2024, the new maternal vaccine, Respiratory Syncytial virus (RSV) will commence.

Our new Band 6 nurse will lead us through these changes under the guidance of the Consultant Midwife for Public health and the Infectious Diseases lead midwife.

The successful applicants will possess excellent time management skills; have evidence of experience in both team and change management and an ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively within the specialist team. Any potential candidate must meet the essential criteria and be flexible within the team working patterns to meet the needs of this weekday service.

The vaccination team posts are currently funded by NHS England. The immunisation nurses  will report directly to the project lead, the Consultant Midwife for Public Health, but line managed by the Infectious Disease Lead midwife.

If you would like further information or an informal visit before applying and or to discuss the role, please contact Chelone Lee-Wo, Consultant Midwife for Public Health on 07884 086523.

Working for our organisation

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.