Vaccination and Immunisation Coordinator - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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The post holder will be a member of Immunisation team and work alongside the Immunisation Team Leader providing professional support and leadership to team members.

The role combines both managerial and clinical elements; you will provide day to day management for the immunisation team whilst supporting the delivery of the national childhood immunisation programme across the Mersey Care Footprint.

You will also provide expert advice to the wider children's nursing teams in addition to practice nurses, parents, carers, and children and young people advising about immunisations.

Operational management of the Immunisation team including personal development reviews, supervision, assist with recruitment, selection, induction and retention of staff.

You will be involved in education and clinical practice development, including providing training to Mersey Care Staff and be involved in audit and policy reviews as required.

You will be responsible for the organisation, smooth running and administration of the nurse led immunisation sessions across the wide variety of venues that are utilised.

You will also be active in the follow up of non-immunised children/ defaulters; providing information, advice and updating data as required, liaising closely with relevant health professionals, and making appropriate arrangements or referrals.

To take the lead on immunisation training courses, support competency building of new immunisers and to act as an expert resource for health professionals and parents.

Assist with any local & national immunisation campaigns including outbreaks.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high-quality care to children and young people.

Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, considering competence

Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital

Provide advice to patients, clients and carers on vaccinations and a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice and health care.

Provide clinical support and training to experienced and new staff within the immunisation team and wider Mersey Care child health teams

In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to Children, young people and their families.

Establish and maintain effective communication with relevant agencies and professionals across health, social care and education services.

Maintain registration in line with professional

Clinically lead, direct, mentor and support the team with regular clinical and managerial supervision

To demonstrate leadership by the means of effective change within own scope of practice, when and were

Making recommendations to improve practice identified through Influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the Trust.

To demonstrate accountability in the use and management of all resources including financial resources

To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and work within a legal framework with patients and carers who may have difficulties understanding complex information due to speech and language difficulties, sensory loss, learning difficulties, depression etc.

Acts as an advocate for the patient and continually demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, carers and children and young people

Be a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care

Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.

Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team canvas.

Provide information to the team leader on staff and patient/client activity as requested, to enable