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The post holder will work in partnership with service users, the multi-disciplinary team, and local stakeholders to improve and protect health and wellbeing. Key work will focus upon ensuring the maternity vaccination programme is effectively implemented by appropriately trained staff and monitor the service to record and provide assurance that specified KPIs are achieved.
You will provide day to day support and supervision of the Maternity Immunisation Clinics, contributing to the delivery of a safe, professional, effective, and efficient service. You will provide advice and information to educate staff, service users, and other stakeholders, and adopt a woman-centred approach to public health to improve health and tackle inequalities.
You will support the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the antenatal immunisation programme delivery and promote uptake of influenza, pertussis, COVID-19, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccination Programmes.
The post holder will represent the Trust at local, regional, and national level when appropriate, influencing service development in relation to public health. The post holder will work closely with the Senior Clinical Midwifery Management Team to further develop related pathways and guidelines to assure appropriate and responsive care.
* Provide specialist advice and support on Immunisation matters to all health care professionals and in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary / multi-agency teams, facilitate development of the service within the hospital and community settings.
* Developing in-house training and education programmes. Regularly delivering training on the immunisation programme for new and relevant members of the midwifery team and other relevant stakeholders (such as family partnership nurses, health visitors, etc).
* Providing oversight and day to day support and supervision of the Maternity Vaccination service contributing to the delivery of a safe, professional, effective and efficient service. You will undertake the planning, implementation and evaluation of the antenatal immunisation programme delivery.
* Engaging obstetricians with regard to their role in the immunisation programme.
* Linking with the Immunisation Service providers to ensure the approach to immunisation related development is consistent with that taken in other areas of the Trust.
* Managerial and professional accountability for the effective delivery of care for women around tobacco dependence in accordance with national, regional and local guidelines.
* Lead and guide the development and facilitation of parent education, developing new service initiatives in the community and hospital setting.
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits We Offer To You
* Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
* NHS pension scheme membership
* Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
* NHS Staff discounts
* Cycle to work scheme
* Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
* Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jane Ingleby Job title: Community Matron Email address: Jane.ingleby@stockport.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01614195531
Sarah McManus Email: Sarah.mcmanus@stockport.nhs.uk Telephone: 01614195531
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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