Local Childhood Immunisation Coordinator

Job summary

The Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is seeking a Childhood Immunisation Coordinator

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a cross-organisations team improving immunisation at scale in Primary Care and contribute to the realisation of the London Immunisation strategy. You will work with the TH GPCG, local CCG and all of primary care.

The post holder will contribute to developing system’s immunisation services at a local level aiming to eradicate vaccine preventable disease from London, and more specifically in Tower Hamlets. The Post holder will be able to work with an enthusiastic, dynamic team who feels that they should deliver the best service to service users. We look after local practices, and look after each other.

The Childhood Immunisation Coordinator will be expected to take a hybrid approach working, sometimes at home, and a significant amount of time visiting practices on a regular basis and other sites (e.g. London Borough of Tower Hamlets offices, NHSE offices, NEL CCGs offices). The Immunisation Coordinator will provide hands on support to general practices to improve immunisation uptake. This is not a clinical post.

Interviews will hold on 25th May 2022.

Main duties of the job

• Working with practices on improving and standardising call/recall process (centralised where possible) and other key processes.
• Develop systems to monitor uptake rates of vaccination services and providing guidance of how to improve these.
• Improve competencies of practice staff on vaccination services and increase confidence levels (incl. Providing training and guidance on GP clinical systems, coding).
• Work with system leaders on ensuring best practice guidance is followed and implemented in practices to improve uptake and reduce variation.
• Liaise with key stakeholders such as LA, local communities to reduce local variation and local inequalities.
• Work with practices to take on a whole systems approach to immunisations, facilitate knowledge exchange on specific themes (e.g. vaccine hesitancy).
• Review, analyse and present complex information.
• Provide feedback to practices and ICS (NEL Integrated Care System) about issues and concerns around immunisation.

• Sourcing guidance and training. Ensure key players trained appropriately and knowledge is sustained.

• Attend appropriate local strategic meetings to inform, support implementation of immunisation strategies and professional network meetings in the area.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (the Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

• Innovation and support for primary care
• Being a great place to work
• Integrating primary and community care
• Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
• Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

First Floor Beaumont House

Bancroft Road

London

E1 4DG

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

First Floor Beaumont House

Bancroft Road

London

E1 4DG

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

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