Job Introduction
We are seeking an experienced Immunisation Staff Nurse to join our South Wiltshire Team. on a substantive basis. The post holder will work alongside substantive and bank colleagues, and will be based at Salisbury, Wiltshire, but will require occasional wider travel across the B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire locality.
The role is 22.5 hours per week, term time only, equivalent to 0.51 WTE. Thursday will be a non-working day, Friday is a required day and the other 2 remaining days would be flexible to suit your schedule.
If you would like to hear more about the role please contact either Roanna Ellis at Roanna.Ellis@hcrgcaregroup.com or Sally Humphries at Sally.Humphries@hcrgcaregroup.com
Main Responsibility
As 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
The Ideal Candidate
You 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
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.
Package Description
As a Band 5 Immunisation Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued South Wiltshire team
You will feel valued as an Immunisation Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £27,055 - £32,934 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
About the Company
We 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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