Warwick - Pt Immunisation Nurse - Band 5 (South Warks)
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
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Job overview
Part time Immunisation Nurse (South Warks) - Band 5 Post
Based at Woodloes House, Woodloes Avenue South, Warwick, CV34 5XN
24 hours per week (over 4 days) term time only.
For the right candidate we will provide you with opportunity to develop your skills continue with professional development and further your career. We will provide you with training to enable you to work as an immunisation nurse.
It is essential to be a driver and have your own vehicle that you are willing to use for business use.
Essential to have the right to live and work in the United Kingdom.
There will be occasional evening and maybe weekend work.
Main duties of the job
An opportunity to join the CWPT School Aged Immunisation Service that provides school-based immunisations in Primary and Secondary schools across Coventry & Warwickshire. This is a Public Health role that would be perfect for a Registered Nurse that is passionate about addressing Health Inequalities and Health promotion through advocating for vaccine uptake.
The Role will give the successful candidate an opportunity to work in collaboration with local schools to uphold and increase vaccine uptake through health promotion.
To join us, you must be a Registered Nurse. You must have at least 1 year post registration nursing experience.
Ideally you will have experience.- Working with children
- Working in the community
- Immunisation experience
The post holder must like children and young people and have a compassionate manner when dealing with large groups of young people.
You will need to have very good organisational skills and be calm under pressure.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Working for our organisation
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support groups
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- To plan, assess, implement, and evaluate nursing interventions for the client group
- In conjunction with the Band 6 nurse, to clinically prioritise and organise the immunisation and vaccination schedule for the school year, making sure all eligible school aged children are offered the correct vaccination at the correct time
- To be responsible for immunisation sessions at school and in clinic, providing supervision for junior staff, assessing risk, and ensuring the safety of the young people
- Contribute towards the development of public health initiatives to meet the needs of identified target groups and carry out public health immunisation promotional activities through integration and effective partnership working.
- To manage Case load of schools as Named Nurse responsible for understanding the demographic of said schools.
- To plan and complete health promotion to address health equalities identified within case load.
- To work with young people, families, schools and communities to provide advice and support to children, families, schools and communities on a range of immunisation issues
- To develop and support the PSHE programmes within the school curriculum to aid the uptake of immunisation within schools and the community, building on current relationships and partnerships; To plan, deliver and evaluate vaccination sessions / health promotion / health education activities to target both local and national drivers for childhood immunisation schedules
- To ensure timely and accurate data entry to demonstrate improving data quality on the electronic system
- To professionally conduct yourself to ensure that you are an ambassador for your profession and the service that you work within and the Trust as a whole.
- The post holder is required to remain eligible for Nurse Registration through participation in appraisal, clinical supervision and continuous professional development
- To participate and contribute to the development of training programmes, protocols, care pathways, and procedures as directed by clinical lead
- To identify children and young people who need protection, which may include the interpretation of complex information about the child and family
- To be able to work unsocial hours, e.g. weekends and early evenings, and support other immunisation programmes across the trust, as required.
- To maintain excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to communicate with a large range of people, varying the communication accordingly
- To facilitate children and young people and / or carers to engage in the immunisation and vaccination schedule
- To use negotiation skills in the management of conflict across a range of situations and seek advice and support to resolve difficulties
- To work with children/young people, carers, families, and other professionals and agencies, agreeing decisions relevant to the child/young person and family
- To attend and contribute to staff and team meetings
- To facilitate effective communication with children/young people, carers, families, and colleagues, particularly where significant barriers to understanding exist, for example, in clients with communication difficulties
- To adapt practice to meet individual child/young person circumstances with due regard for cultural, social, and linguistic differences
- To support the directorate in participating in the complaints process as directed
- The post holder will work in a school, community or home environment assessing children, young people, and adults and deciding on the best course of action. Advice and direction will be available from Bands 6 and 7
- To make clinical decisions and support others to make decisions in a range of situations where there may be complex or ethical considerations, e.g. assessing capacity to consent in under 16s
- To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice where appropriate
- To work within the NMC code of conduct and within the Trust guidelines and protocols
- Be able to effectively make decisions with support regarding safeguarding children and be able to interpret the available information
- To be flexible to the demands of the environment including unpredictable work patterns, deadlines, and frequent interruptions.
- To be responsible for the effective management of own caseload
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Nurse
- Current Registration NMC
- Continuing CPD
skillls and Knowledge
Essential criteria- experience of working with children
- Knowledge and skills in the assessment of and intervention with children and young people
- Good written skills
Experience
Essential criteria- Broad range of experience in working as a qualified nurse
- Must have some post qualification experience
- Evidence of effective caseload management
Other
Essential criteria- Willing to travel to different sites/car driver
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexual orientation. Guidance and criteria on the filtering criminal cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website.
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