School-Age Immunisation Bank Nurse

Job responsibilities

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• The safe administration and delivery of vaccinations across schools and community settings for the relevant cohort of children in line with service development standards.
• To identify vulnerable children and where appropriate to play an integral role within the safeguarding process in line with local and national protocols and legislation.
• Work in partnership with children, families and multi-agency services supporting the local population.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Screen children to ensure their inclusion for immunisations within the programme meets the required criteria in the Patient Group Direction (PGD).
• Obtaining informed consent where necessary based on clinical judgement.
• Ensuring maintenance of the cold chain throughout the process.
• Compliance with the medicines management standards throughout the process including awareness of contraindications to vaccination.
• Preparation and administration of the vaccines safely and competently in accordance with professional accountability and local/national standards and guidelines.
• Respond to clinical emergencies (anaphylaxis) initiating basic life support to ensure emergency procedures are executed and reported in accordance with national and local policy. Report adverse reactions to the Service Lead Nurse.
• Assess and signpost children to the appropriate named school contact where additional advice and support is indicated for identified health needs.

Public Health Responsibilities:

• Contribute towards the development of public health initiatives to meet the needs of identified target groups and carry out public health promotional activities through integration and effective partnership working.
• Provide advice and information to children, parents, schools, members of the public and professionals where required.
• Demonstrate knowledge of immunisation and vaccination programmes, the impact on public health and the national and local agenda.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of the programme to support the achievement of performance targets.

Quality and Governance Responsibilities:

• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous documentation both to ensure timely and effective communication in accordance with national and local policies and the NMC code.
• Ensure confidentiality in accordance with policy.
• Demonstrate understanding of specific issues relating to children and young people.
• Demonstrate skills and knowledge in safeguarding practice.
• Awareness of dealing with complaints and appropriate reporting in accordance with organisational policies.
• Support the process of user satisfaction feedback to help develop the service.
• Initiate incident reporting and take appropriate action to inform Management.
• Comply with requirements for data protection.

Resource Responsibilities:

• Equipment and resources are managed effectively to reduce waste and promote cost efficiency.
• Ensure the safe keeping and maintenance of equipment in accordance with policy reporting defect or loss.
• Ensure safe storage and stock control of vaccines and adrenaline in accordance with prescription only medicines management and cold chain policy.

Professional Responsibilities:

• Work within The Code Standards of Conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives (NMC, 2015) national and local guidelines.
• Work across organisational and agency boundaries to promote integrated working.
• Work to agreed Kernow Health CIC policies which facilitate and support the clinical governance agenda.
• Contribute to the development of clinical audit, clinical benchmarking, and the setting of standards.
• Deliver care that is evidence based.
• Support the organisation and development of team members by participating in programmes of learning.
• Participate in professional clinical supervision via team debriefs and team meetings.
• Compliance with statutory, mandatory, and essential training requirements.
• Maintain a portfolio to demonstrate continuing professional development, making sure that steps are taken to maintain adequate skills and knowledge in line with NMC revalidation.
• Participation in information technology systems as they develop.

General

• All employees and teams are expected to:

- Respect each other and be courteous and sensitive to everyones needs and concerns

- Be accountable for your work

- Be flexible about job and task assignments

- Be willing to help each other instead of displaying an its not my job attitude

- Ask for help when needed

- Work safely together

- Be open to constructive feedback without being defensive or negative

- Be self-motivated and reliable

- Share ideas for improvement

- Be cheerful, positive, and encouraging to other team members

• Actively contribute to the Organisations values and behaviours ensuring that relevant processes are open and transparent and encourage the confidence of staff, patients, partner organisations, the public and other agencies.
• Promote a positive organisational image.
• Promote own personal and others health, safety, and security, taking the appropriate action to report risk in accordance with policy.
• Ensure that equipment and resources are managed effectively to reduce waste and promote cost efficiency.
• Ensure the safe keeping and maintenance of equipment in accordance with policy, reporting defect or loss.
• Maintain personal development to meet the changing demands of the job, participate in an annual appraisal and appropriate training activities.
• Ensure compliance with all Kernow Health CIC statutory and mandatory training requirements, policies and protocols.
• Take appropriate responsibility to ensure that your objectives are aligned with the core team and organisational objectives.
• To demonstrate agility through adapting to the needs of the organisation by working flexibly in response to changing organisational requirements and priorities.

You will be expected to carry out any other duties that may reasonably be required in line with your main duties, as directed by your line manager.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse

Desirable

• Nursing Diploma or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

• Experience of administering vaccines
• Experience of working with diverse communities
• Awareness of NHS national and local policies and guidance relating to Public Health
• Excellent understanding of safeguarding issues/legislation adapted to practice
• Excellent awareness of equality and diversity issues

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to remain calm and focussed when busy
• Able to work with people at all levels
• Natural collaborator and team contributor
• Honesty and openness
• Listening to instruction and tact and sensitivity when passing on information
• Taking ownership - a can do attitude
• Flexibility/Adaptive in line with the needs of the service

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Excellent organisation skills
• Ability to deal with a wide range of tasks and meet competing deadlines
• Ability to work on own, autonomously and as part of a team
• Able to use initiative and priorities tasks
• Able to work through tasks logically and systematically with attention to detail
• Maintain confidentiality
• Ability to assess and engage professional judgement to ensure parental and/or child consent is informed in accordance with national/local polices, guidelines and legislation

Other

Essential

• Driving licence and availability of a car

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).