Immunisation Equality Lead Nurse in Salisbury

Join Us as Our Immunisation Equality Lead Nurse – Driving Health for All! Are you passionate about making a real difference in community health? We’re looking for a dedicated and forward-thinking Immunisation Equality Lead Nurse to champion fair and accessible vaccination services for every child, young person, and family in our community.

Key purposes of the role include:

• To lead and manage the School Aged Immunisations teams to drive the uptake of Immunisations in line with the national immunisation schedule.
• To work with the Professional Lead and Team Leader to develop existing relationships with stakeholders across B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire Local Authorities and communities to form a collaborative local network focusing on reducing inequalities in vaccination uptake in the school aged population.
• To manage colleagues in the School Age Immunisation Teams and the Young Engagement Facilitators.
• To maximise uptake rates and reduce inequalities by developing targeted outreach strategies for identified cohorts and leading on delivery strategies.

This is a part-time, pro rata role working 22.5 hours per week. Your working base will be High Post, Technology House, High Post Business Park, Salisbury, SP4 6AT.

Current NMC registration

• Highly developed communication skills including the ability to provide and receive highly complex information enabling partners to access the information.
• Experience of leading vaccination delivery within school aged populations.
• Experience of working with communities and service users to improve vaccination uptake.
• Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and families.
• Skills for assessing health needs at individual, group and community levels and planning options for action to reduce the impact of inequalities.
• Ability to plan and manage own workload from overarching service specification.
• Ability to analyse information and produce reports.
• Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners.
• Working knowledge of vaccination programmes and experience of strategies used to improve vaccination uptake for school aged children.
• Ability to travel at work across B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire and within rural localities.
• Ability to work with electronic health records, electronic consent systems.
• Ability to work with and learn how to work with different IT systems.
• Experience of line management and developing teams.
• Experience of working within or leading health inequality, inclusion and/or diversity work.
• Experience of working with wider multiagency partners.
• Experience of working to project briefs, managing challenges and meeting deadlines.

Package Description

As an Immunisation Equality Lead Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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