Job summary
- Main area
- Improving Immunisation Uptake Team
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 15 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 891-CSU-7808SB
- Employer
- NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHS SCW CSU
- Town
- Various (Hybrid)
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
CHIS IIUT Senior GP Liaison & Team Clinician
Band 7
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Job overview
SCW’s Improving Immunisation Uptake Service are a small team with a big vision.
The Improving Immunisation Uptake Team have a full-time fixed term vacancy covering a 15-month maternity period for a senior team clinician. This is a key role within the IIU service, and the successful candidate will be part of the senior leadership team, reporting to Head of Service. Working collaboratively within SCW, alongside Child Health Information Services and across organisational boundaries including all key stakeholders to provide high quality improving immunisation uptake service.
This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual with line management experience who has a passion and desire to deliver excellent standard of service, in line with commissioner expectations. There will be opportunities to develop in this dynamic, exciting, and friendly specialist expanding service.
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Main duties of the job
Working collaboratively with SCW’s Child Health Information Services (CHIS) and data informatics team, the IIU team senior clinician will work closely and collaboratively with the senior leadership team and all members of the IIU clinical team to assist with clinical support across all areas and also identifying within agreed service models which GP practices/areas would benefit most from focused intervention and support. The IIU Team senior clinician will work alongside all IIU Team colleagues to ensure GP Liaison and team processes are effective, productive, and collaborative in order to meet the objective of the IIU Team- to reduce variation in vaccinations and improve immunisation uptake rates across all service areas.
Working for our organisation
This role would be working in an expanding team consisting of head of service, operational lead, and a team of data administrators and clinicians. We are looking for an efficient, enthusiastic, and self-motivated individual to work collaboratively within the team/organisation and across organisational boundaries to ensure a first class IIU service across all service areas who is ready for a new challenge in a dynamic, passionate, and friendly team.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Support the Head of Service and wider team to deliver a first-class service to customers.
- Work collaboratively with IIU Operational Lead to develop, and implement effective and robust team processes, particularly as service development continues.
- As part of the senior leadership team work collaboratively with CHIS management and IIU head of service, on service expansion programmes for the IIUT.
- Responsible for reviewing data provided by the data informatics team (in collaboration with the IIU team senior data administrators and team clinicians) to identify geographical areas or specific patient groups with low immunisation uptake rates.
- Work in partnership with primary care colleagues and other relevant stakeholders to identify/address challenges affecting Immunisation uptake rates and reducing barriers in access to vaccination.
- Responsible for liaising with primary care colleagues and parents/families re children who have been identified as not being up to date or missing immunisations in a timely manner and identifying/addressing any barriers to vaccination for these children.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role.
Person specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Patient First – Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Education
Essential criteria
- First level Registered Paediatric or Adult Nurse/SCPHN (HV/SHN)
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Safeguarding responsibilities including where to access policies and support.
- In-depth understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it, ideally in primary care/childhood immunisations
- In-depth up to date knowledge of the UK Childhood immunisation schedule
- Knowledge of how to utilise the ‘Green book’ - Immunisation against Infectious Disease
- Be familiar with and understand how to convert immunisation scheduled from overseas to the UK schedule
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services
- Significant experience in service delivery and supporting change management processes
- Knowledge and experience of health promotion activities. Confidence in promoting the National Childhood Immunisation programme.
- Knowledge of relevant media and social media platforms/activity
Skills & Capabilities
Essential criteria
- Sound communication skills and experience of managing complex matters (internally/externally) and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
- Demonstrable ability to engage with and establish/maintain highly effective and productive working relationships with primary care colleagues and parents/families/key stakeholders.
- Ability to analyse and interpret data and information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend appropriate course of action to address any challenges.
- Excellent organisational skills /ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales, alongside supporting colleagues to manage their workloads (as required).
- Strong Leadership / management experience
- Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals and key service deliverables.
- Understanding of data sharing and information governance
- Sound presentation skills, confident with presenting to a wide range of audiences, including colleagues/customers both internally and externally at a high level.
- Flexible/dynamic/adaptable in the approach to delivery of service
- Sound knowledge and experience of IT systems and software programmes such as Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint , MS Teams.
- Experience and knowledge of key clinical systems eg EMIS/CarePlus/Rio.
Desirable criteria
- Experience and knowledge of CHIS functions and responsibilities
- Full car driving licence
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Coppock
- Job title
- Recruiting Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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