Are you a Registered Nurse or Midwife looking for a rewarding community role where you can make a real difference? We have a unique and exciting opportunity to join the Berkshire Immunisation Team in a 30 hours per week, year-round, fixed-term post until 31 July 2027, supporting safe, effective and high-quality school-aged and community immunisation programmes.
You will be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team delivering high-quality care, improving access to vaccination and helping to protect local communities.
You will support the central localities of Bracknell, Wokingham and Reading, with further travel across East Berkshire, including RBWM and Slough, and Berkshire West, including Reading and West Berkshire, where required. Appropriate consideration will be given to travel time.
Flexibility is required to support all functions of the vaccinator role, including 8:00am starts for vaccine collection and transport, clinic set-up by 8:30am, after-school clinics until 6:00pm, Saturday clinics usually once per term, and school holiday clinics across Berkshire.
Clinic dates and sessions will be managed in line with service need and staff working arrangements. During school holidays, you will support vaccination clinics, outreach, project work, community events and targeted work to increase uptake and reduce health inequalities. Annual leave can be requested throughout the year, subject to service needs.
Deliver safe, welcoming and effective vaccination clinics for children, young people and eligible adults across schools, community clinics, outreach settings and vaccine bases.
Assess consent and eligibility, and administer vaccinations in line with Vaccine Group Directions, Patient Group Directions, the NMC Code and Trust policies.
Build positive relationships with children, young people, families, schools and partner organisations, using clear, compassionate and professional communication.
Plan, set up and run smooth clinic sessions, including vaccine collection and transport, cold chain management, stock control, clinic set-up and accurate documentation.
Recognise and escalate clinical, safeguarding, risk or incident concerns promptly, including responding safely in emergency situations such as anaphylaxis.
Support health promotion, community engagement, follow-up clinics and targeted work to increase uptake and reduce health inequalities.
Maintain high-quality records, support data quality and contribute to audit, learning, meetings and ongoing service improvement.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
Caring for and about you is our top priority
Committed to providing good quality, safe services
Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
Flexible working options to support work-life balance
27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
Generous NHS pension scheme
Excellent learning and career development opportunities
‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for this role are:
1. Current NMC registration as a Registered Nurse or Midwife.
2. Vaccinator training, or a willingness to undertake this.
3. A compassionate communication style and confidence working with children, young people, families, schools and partner organisations.
4. Flexibility, good organisational skills and the ability to travel across Berkshire localities to support safe, high-quality vaccination services.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact Charlotte Church (Lead Nurse for immunisation) via
[email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
