Immunisation Staff Nurse

We are seeking an experienced Immunisation Staff Nurse to join our Wiltshire Team on a substantive basis. The post holder will work alongside substantive and bank colleagues, and will be based at our Trowbridge hub, but will require occasional wider travel across the Wiltshire locality.

The role is 30 hours per week, across 4 days term time only. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday. 

To hear more about the role please contact Sally Humphries at Sally.Humphries@hcrgcaregroup.com to arrange an informal discussion.
Package DescriptionAs a Band 5 Immunisation Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued Wiltshire team.

You will feel valued as an Immunisation Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

£28,407 - £34,581 FTE Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions 
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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 
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main ResponsibilitiesAs an Immunisation Nurse at HCRG Care Group Wiltshire, your key responsibilities will include:

Maximising vaccine uptake for the School Aged population
Assist with the planning, preparation and delivery of vaccinations in both schools and community settings
Working within local and national guidelines and SOPs to deliver a safe and effective service
Having a public health focus, Making Every Contact Count 
Collaborative working colleagues and external agencies
Lead vaccination sessions and deputise for the Senior Nurse as requried

For a full list of responsibilities please see attached Job Description. 
The Ideal CandidateYou will have a Registered Nursing qualification and hold current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. In addition, we are looking for candidates with:

Knowledge and experience of delivering immunisation programmes
Positive, adaptable outlook with problem solving abilities
Exellent communication skills with other agencies as well as young people and their families
Focus on quality and safety
Conscientious, punctual and highly organised with attention to detail
Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post (driving self and others in own vehicle or team van is essential)
Able to meet the manual handling requirements of the post
Flexibility and adaptablility to varied work pattern 
Full UK Driving License and access to own vehicle for work purposes. 

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

 
About The CompanyWe 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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