Improving Immunisations Uptake Officer in Leyland

Are you passionate about improving health outcomes for children and families? Would you like the opportunity to work collaboratively across systems and communities to help increase childhood immunisation uptake? We are pleased to offer a fixed term opportunity for an Improving Immunisations Uptake Officer to join the Child Health Information Service (CHIS) Team until March 2027. This role plays a key part in improving 0–5 immunisation uptake across Lancashire.

You will work as an integrated member of the CHIS team, supporting and leading projects that focus on areas and populations with the lowest uptake. The postholder will:

• Contribute to and initiate immunisation uptake improvement projects
• Work closely with system partners, community groups and stakeholders
• Use data, insight and best practice to shape effective interventions
• Produce reports demonstrating activity, learning and impact
• Support vaccination promotion, engagement and awareness within communities

This is a great opportunity to develop experience in population health, project work, partnership working and health inequalities, while making a real difference for local children and families.

Package Description: £31,710 - £38,052 with access to our group pension. Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location. 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 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.

What we’re looking for: This role would suit someone who:

• Is educated to degree level (or equivalent experience)
• Has experience or interest in improving health outcomes or service quality
• Is confident working with data, reports and Microsoft Office tools
• Has strong communication, influencing and organisational skills
• Can work autonomously, manage priorities and meet deadlines
• Shares our values and commitment to equality, quality and patient benefit

A full UK driving licence and access to a car is essential, as the role includes travel to community venues across Lancashire.

Why apply? Gain valuable experience in public health, immunisations and system-wide working. Develop your project management, analytical and stakeholder engagement skills. Work flexibly in a hybrid role. Be part of meaningful work that improves outcomes for children and communities.

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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