Wandsworth Immunisation Nurses
Immunisations are an important part of the healthy child programme for school-age children.
We are looking for enthusiastic nurses interested in flexible hours to join our Immunisation teams in Wandsworth to help deliver immunisation programmes in schools and in the community. Full training and support will be provided.
In order to give your application the best opportunity, please ensure that you address all the requirements of the person specification when writing your supporting statement.
Car driver essential.
To participate in School Age/BCG immunisations programme, including administration of the inhaled influenza vaccination.
To assist in the planning, preparation and delivery of school, community and home immunisation services
To encourage children, parents/carers to participate in the immunisation programmes in line with the Department of Health policy.
To ensure children and parents/carers have adequate evidence based information to allow them to make an informed choice regarding immunisations.
To participate in the school immunisation programme ensuring policies and procedures are adhered to enabling safe effective administration of immunisations in the school setting.
To prepare and assist with immunisation satellite clinics held within the Trust.
At HRCH, we only want to provide the type of outstanding care that we would recommend to our family and friends.
We provide community healthcare and urgent treatment services for over 515,000 people living across the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond-Upon-Thames.
In the latest NHS Staff Survey results for community trusts, we had the highest percentage of staff in the country who felt their role made a difference to patients. We also had top scores for satisfaction with the quality of care staff can deliver.
We are the top community trust in the country for Staff engagement, Quality of care and Quality of appraisals, according to the theme results in the 2019 staff survey. In 2018 we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times and won the HSJ Workforce Award.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of deference against COVID19.
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Dec 2024