Would you like to make a real difference to children's health and reduce health inequalities?
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Immunisation Improvement Nurse to join our newly established Improving Immunisation Uptake (IIU) Team. This innovative role has been created to improve childhood vaccination coverage and reduce inequalities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
This is a varied, influential role combining clinical expertise, family engagement, data informed improvement and system working. You will work closely with GP practices, Child Health Information Services (CHIS), Public Health Nursing teams, NHS England and School Aged Immunisation Services to support sustainable improvements in vaccination uptake.
Open only to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to; Hampshire IOW Healthcare NHS Trust, Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, South Central Ambulance Service or Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.
About the role
As a core member of the IIU team, you will:
- Support improvement of uptake across the 0-5 childhood immunisation programme, with contribution to 6-19 years in collaboration with SAIS
- Provide clinical expertise and guidance to GP practices on immunisation pathways and management of under immunised children
- Engage directly with parents and carers to understand barriers, provide reassurance and encourage timely vaccination
- Use validated immunisation data to identify gaps, inequalities and improvement priorities
- Contribute to quality improvement, development of resources, SOPs and evaluation of this pilot programme
This role offers significant scope to shape how immunisation improvement work is delivered locally and to influence service development going forward.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
- NMC Registered Nurse or Midwife - with professional body
- Relevant Degree or Post graduate qualification - SCPHN or equivalent experience relevant to the role
Immunisation training (e.g., Vaccine Essentials)
- Delivery of childhood immunisation programmes
- Understanding of immunisation inequality and its impact on health
- Working with children and families
- Experience of clinical leadership and decision making
- Experience of multi agency working (GP, public health nursing etc.)
- Knowledge of safeguarding policies and escalation
- Ability to provide compassionate, safe clinical care.
- Experience of contributing to audit, risk assessment or quality improvement
- Strong communication, listening and engagement skills.
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Experience of managing complex conversations with families
- Experience in data led quality improvement.
- Experience supporting staff development or operational change
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the national immunisation programme for children
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the required Clinical governance processes
- Demonstrate an understanding of Local ICB area vaccination framework
- Understanding of the healthy child programme and national public health agenda
- Knowledge of safeguarding children and the legislative framework
- Ability to work within a multi-agency environment
- Effective and well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate a good standard of IT skills
- Ability to interpret data and communicate findings in an appropriate manner.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
