Immunisation Coordinator

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

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Job summary

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 THGPCG, local CCG and all of primary care.

Main duties of the job

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 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.

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

Date posted

07 July 2022

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience £48,000 subject to skills and experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

1 years

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

E0136-22-5153

Job locations

Tower Hamlets

London [Hybrid]

E14 3BQ


Job description

Job responsibilities

  • 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 and support implementation of immunisation strategies (e.g flu task and finish group) and professional network meetings in the area.
  • Provide regular updates to the Immunisation Lead and Immunisation Commissioner through Teams Meetings.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • 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 and support implementation of immunisation strategies (e.g flu task and finish group) and professional network meetings in the area.
  • Provide regular updates to the Immunisation Lead and Immunisation Commissioner through Teams Meetings.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
  • Further training or significant experience in project management, clinical systems, financial/contract management or supporting change management processes.

Desirable

  • Educated to Post-graduate degree level in relevant subject e.g. Public Health, Healthcare Commissioning or other relevant subject.

Experience

Essential

  • National Immunisation regimes and JCVI strategies.
  • National Population Screening Strategies.
  • Experience of working with GP Clinical systems i.e. EMIS.
  • Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services.
  • Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of fundamental project management and/or health information systems development.
  • Workforce development knowledge and experience.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Project.

Desirable

  • A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.

Communication skills

Essential

  • Clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.

Analytical skills

Essential

  • Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
  • Demonstrate capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
  • Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
  • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
  • Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.

Planning skills

Essential

  • Demonstrate capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
  • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.

Autonomy/Freedom to Act

Essential

  • Demonstrate capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often fast changing timescales.

Values and behaviours

Essential

  • Commitment to and focused on quality, promote high standards in all they do.
  • Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
  • Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
  • Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
  • Work well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
  • Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working but also seeks out innovation.
  • Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
  • Further training or significant experience in project management, clinical systems, financial/contract management or supporting change management processes.

Desirable

  • Educated to Post-graduate degree level in relevant subject e.g. Public Health, Healthcare Commissioning or other relevant subject.

Experience

Essential

  • National Immunisation regimes and JCVI strategies.
  • National Population Screening Strategies.
  • Experience of working with GP Clinical systems i.e. EMIS.
  • Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services.
  • Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of fundamental project management and/or health information systems development.
  • Workforce development knowledge and experience.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Project.

Desirable

  • A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.

Communication skills

Essential

  • Clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.

Analytical skills

Essential

  • Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
  • Demonstrate capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
  • Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
  • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
  • Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.

Planning skills

Essential

  • Demonstrate capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
  • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.

Autonomy/Freedom to Act

Essential

  • Demonstrate capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often fast changing timescales.

Values and behaviours

Essential

  • Commitment to and focused on quality, promote high standards in all they do.
  • Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
  • Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
  • Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
  • Work well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
  • Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working but also seeks out innovation.
  • Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Tower Hamlets

London [Hybrid]

E14 3BQ


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Tower Hamlets

London [Hybrid]

E14 3BQ


Employer's website

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


For questions about the job, contact:

Vicky Scarborough

vicky.scarborough@nhs.net

07599110781

Date posted

07 July 2022

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience £48,000 subject to skills and experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

1 years

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

E0136-22-5153

Job locations

Tower Hamlets

London [Hybrid]

E14 3BQ


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