Assistant Screening and Immunisation Coordinator
This is an exciting opportunity to use your screening and immunisation knowledge to help shape care and improve services in the East of England as a member of the Screening and Immunisation Team.
This is a fixed term/secondment for a Band 6 role of Assistant Screening and Immunisation Coordinator is to support the commissioning of safe, high quality national screening and Immunisation programmes specifically in the Essex and Suffolk areas.
You will provide direct support across a range of commissioning activities to ensure programmes meet national requirements and are delivered safely and effectively, focussing on reducing health inequalities and inequities.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, organised and passionate about public health. You will have relevant knowledge and experience of working with screening and/or immunisation programmes, the ability to manage competing priorities, evaluate and present complex data, and have good communication skills. Effective team-working is vital, and we offer a supportive environment for further learning. Applicants should have experience of leading service improvement and building good working relationships with stakeholders.
Job responsibilities
We are particularly interested in hearing from applicants who have a background or experience of antenatal and newborn and/or cervical screening programmes.
Additionally we are seeking a colleague who has:
* Ability to travel regularly to areas in Essex not well served by public transport.
* Able to work from home as well as from the office base as required by business need (Fulbourn, or Basildon).
* Good teamworking skills as well as being self-disciplined.
* Can work flexibly but available within the core hours of 9-4 for meetings.
* The post is Full Time, but will consider 0.8 WTE. Flexible working requests will be considered.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in relevant specialist area.
* Educated to Post-graduate degree level in relevant subject (e.g. MSc Public Health).
Knowledge and experience
* Demonstrable knowledge in a relevant discipline (i.e. understanding of principles of population screening and immunisation).
* Experience of operating in a politically sensitive environment.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects/programmes in complex and challenging environments.
* Experience of managing a team.
* Experience of managing risks and reporting.
* Understanding of the public sector.
* Demonstrated experience in a healthcare environment including experience of delivering screening and immunisation programmes.
Skills Capabilities and Aptitudes
* Clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
* Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions working to tight and often changing timescales.
* Proficient user of Microsoft office applications including Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint.
* Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
Values and Behaviours
* Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
* Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
* Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
* Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.
* Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
* Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
* Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
* Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
* An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
* Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
Other
* Able to travel across various sites where applicable.
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