Childhood Immunisation & Health Inequality Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Childhood Immunisation Responsibilities:

• Immunisation Delivery: Provide childhood immunisations for under-5s, including Flu, HPV, MEN ACWY, and Td/IPV, MMR in clinical settings and through outreach and domiciliary visits.
• Coordination: Work with practices to organize immunisation clinics, manage patient invitations, and coordinate care for specific patient cohorts, especially those hard to engage.
• Data Collection & Analysis: Gather and analyse data on immunisation rates, and contribute to developing strategies to improve uptake.
• Clinical Support: Adhere to infection control procedures, manage clinical incidents, and ensure proper communication and coordination with the broader healthcare team.
• Education & Training: Provide training to practice staff on immunisation protocols and support ongoing professional development.

Health Inequality Responsibilities:

• Community Engagement: Identify and engage with communities experiencing health inequalities, particularly focusing on ethnic minorities, economically deprived groups, and those with chronic health conditions.
• Data-Driven Interventions: Utilise available data to identify health disparities within the PCN and design targeted interventions such as Des- CORE20PLUS5
• Program Implementation: Lead the implementation of health inequality initiatives such as improving CVD management, increasing cancer screening uptake, and enhancing access to mental health services.
• Collaboration: Work with local system partners to address barriers to care, develop community assets, and create sustainable health improvement strategies.
• Evaluation & Reporting: Establish processes to evaluate the impact of health inequality interventions, report on progress, and adjust strategies as needed.
• To be responsible for ensuring community engagement work takes place ensuring aims and objectives are met.
• System level: to represent the general practice neighbourhood and community partners in the ICS inequalities improvement agenda.
• Place level: supporting the integration of primary care, secondary and community services, in collaboration with peer organisational HI Leads, whilst driving the change to help mitigate inequality. Engaging with other place- based partnerships.
• Neighbourhood / Community Level: to build collaborative, sustainable and positive relationships with external partners to develop a shared vision and understanding of the issues and challenges and how to work together to meet the needs of the community ensuring that it is from a population perspective.

Key Relationships

• Internal: PCN staff, doctors, trainees, and administrative personnel.
• External: Local health authorities, voluntary sector organisations, community groups, patients, and other key stakeholders involved in addressing health inequalities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse (RN) with NMC registration (child branch preferred).
• Immunisation qualification.
• Experience in community health, especially working with children and disadvantaged populations.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrated experience in administering immunisations and working independently within community settings.
• Operational leadership experience would be desirable
• Strong understanding of health inequalities and experience in designing and implementing public health interventions.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

City & Hackney Office of PCNs

Address

Stamford Hill Group Practice

2 Egerton Road

London

N16 6UA