Covid Vaccination Clinical Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

This post is responsible for managing the clinical delivery of the Covid-19 vaccination services delivered on behalf of Herefordshire general practice. The post is responsible for supporting the clinical management of the programme streams to ensure robust and safe delivery across both direct contracts and federative support within the bounds of the vaccination programme. This will encompass both strategic management responsibilities and operational site management with clinical focus and delivery of the COVAC vaccination programme for Taurus Healthcare across Herefordshire.

As the programme Clinical Lead, the post holder will work as leader of a dynamic team in delivering a safe and effective service for the mass delivery of COVID-19 vaccinations. The post holder will be responsible for clinical oversight of multiple vaccination locations ensuring the programme is delivered in line with national requirements. In particular, the post holder will be responsible for:

•Oversight of national/regional/local changes to programme delivery and ensure clinical processes remain in line with national programme.

Oversight and support with clinical planning of the vaccination programmes across Herefordshire both for THL and Herefordshire General Practice

Oversight and development of vaccination delivery across multiple settings locally.

• Provision of adequate clinical leadership and support to all staff and citizens.

• Manage Clinical escalations of site clinical leads and vaccination staff.

• Clinical oversight of patient safety conditions and potential clinical risks and concerns, mitigating all risks and reporting to programme board.

• Ensuring the effective delivery of care including undertaking specialist procedure, providing specialist advice, structured education and ongoing support to the site staff and the patients.

The post holder will be highly organised and able to think on their feet to address issues as they arise. They will lead by example, have a focus on efficiency and accuracy, be an effective communicator with strong Interpersonal skills and a patient focused approach and above all be flexible with working arrangements to meet the needs of the COVAC national programme and delivery across all delivery models (Clinic/Outreach/Roving).

Role Specific

• Responsible for overseeing the clinical activity for the programme.

• Ensure a consistently resilient, high-quality process of delivering COVID-19 and Seasonal Influenza vaccinations.

• Lead the clinical specialty providing leadership, development and governance in relation to the clinical area and supporting other clinicians regarding patient treatment and management.

• Clinical review of patient safety conditions and identification of potential clinical risks and concerns.

• Ensure that the vaccination site meets the needs of all eligible people, is provided to the highest level of quality, safety and efficiency, meets the minimum standards and strive for excellence, and ensures equity of access and uptake.

• Implement strategies and plans to support continuous improvement and delivery of the programme.

• Act as key liaison person to all parties involved.

• Develop and maintain relationships with all relevant stakeholders and service providers including PHE health protection services, quality assurance teams, and local authority colleagues to ensure seamless programme delivery.

• Monitor uptake and identify inequalities in screening and vaccination uptake particularly in relation to social class, ethnicity, special need, and develop and implement plans to reduce inequality.

• Ensure that expert clinical and public health advice is provided to the public through appropriate mechanisms.

• Ensure that systems and protocols are in place for the identification, response and evaluation of untoward incidents and that all relevant stakeholders understand these.

• Provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment and advice to patients and their carers.

• Communicate effectively and build relationships with colleagues across the covac services, Herefordshire General Practice and key external stakeholder organisations.

Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation

• Observe national infection control procedure changes and adjust local delivery policies as required.

• Ensures that all NHS statutory & mandatory training is kept up to date. Attends all mandatory training as needed. This includes Basic Life Support, Anaphylaxis.

• Follow local and national policy making comments on proposals for change.

• Act as a mentor or respond to any escalations or queries from more junior staff.

• Support staff in the provision of care including training in the use of site protocols for implementing safe delivery of the service.

• Act as a coach and mentor to more junior staff.

• Participate in developing specialist policies and procedures to ensure the effective delivery of care. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

• Responsible for the safe and effective use of equipment and other resources, ensuring equipment is maintained in good working order.

• Corporate responsibility for the financial resources and physical assets of the vaccination site.

• Responsible for ensuring that patients have adequate equipment supplies

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to a graduate or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• 1st level RN/RMN/RNLD with considerable experience of working at management level within the NHS.

Experience

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
• Relevant, tangible experience within primary care and broad immunisation service understanding.
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England, Clinical Commissioning Groups and Commissioning Support Units .
• Member of relevant professional body.
• Must be able to provide and receive specialist, highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long -term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
• Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
• Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
• Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day -to -day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
• Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
• Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
• Professional calm and efficient manner Effective organizer, influencer and networker.
• Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.

Desirable

• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes Used to working in a busy environment.
• Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).

Employer details

Employer name

Taurus Healthcare Limited

Address

Suite 1, Berrows Business Centre

Bath Street

Hereford

Herefordshire

HR1 2HE

Employer's website

https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)