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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Bank unregistered vaccinator
Accepting applications until: 07-Aug-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 07-Aug-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- Trustwide
- Postcode
- NE27 0QJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Ad hoc, as and when)
Salary
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 3)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nursing & Midwifery
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated unregistered vaccinators to join our bank. The post will support a team who provide vaccinations to our patients and staff in our Trust sites and within the community, via residential settings and within their own homes. In return we will offer you:
- Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
- Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
- Paid annual leave
- NHS pension scheme
- A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
- Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
- Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
- Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
- Option to block-book shifts in a set period
- SMS notifications of shift availability
- Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
- Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
- Free uniform, where applicable
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The role is to work as part of a dynamic team across Northumberland & North Tyneside in delivering a safe & effective service for the delivery of the winter vaccinations in acute & community settings.
We have a range of shifts, 7 days per week including day shifts, early shifts, late shifts , twilight, nights & weekends. With bank you can pick & choose which shifts suit you. The post holder will be responsible for:
- To vaccinate eligible cohorts under the direction of the senior nurse
- To keep up to date with national protocol/guidance for delivery of vaccines
- Assess a patient’s eligibility for the vaccination
- Listen to & support any concerns the patient may have & address these appropriately, with the support of the clinical lead/registered clinician, as required
- Ensure that clinical assessment & eligibility for the vaccine has been carried out prior to vaccination, as well consent being gained by a registered professional
- Ensure that accurate recording of the vaccine is made on the recording system
- Ensure that routine, complex & sensitive information is communicated to patients & their relatives/carers
- Ensure the correct use & disposal of equipment, as per the SOP
- Adhere to all practice policies & procedures
- Work within own competencies & use own judgement, seeking support as required
- Assist the monitoring of stock, as required
- The post will include lone working, you must be able to drive & have access to a car, as you may work in a variety of locations during a shift.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Undertake both routine and specially identified tasks for which the post holder has been trained and assessed as competent, such as below:
• Confirm the identity of the patient and the agreement of undertaking vaccination, addressing any concerns
• Address any additional questions or refer back to the registered health care professional as appropriate Ensure that the vaccination is conducted in line with the patient’s condition (offer seat if necessary, encourage them to relax their arm and ensure they are in the most appropriate position to receive the vaccine)
• Prepare the vaccine (reconstitution, drawing up), using non-touch aseptic technique, as per the standard operating procedure (SOP) and manufacturer’s instructions.
• Administer the vaccine via intra-muscular route (either in the deltoid muscle of the patient’s upper arm or the anterio-lateral aspect of the thigh if indicated) in accordance with training and local and national policies, procedures and standards.
• Immediately observe patient’s reaction and if appropriate, direct people to the registered health care professional or post vaccination observation area.
• Wear adequate PPE equipment in line with current national guidelines.
• Conduct hand hygiene, either alcohol hand gel or hand washing according to guidance before and after each vaccination.
• Ensure proper disposal of clinical and non-clinical waste and change of PPE and ensure surfaces are wiped down as per national guidelines.
• Be able to respond to and raise issues or concerns with the registered health care professional on complications or emergency situations, such as anaphylaxis.
• Respond to queries appropriately and liaise with the clinical supervisor where necessary to gain further advice or information
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Health/Health & Social Care/Direct Care or portfolio of equivalent experience
- Courses and experience that demonstrate transferable skills First aid training
- Must be flexible to meet the needs of the service and be able to wok a full variety of shifts including days and nights
Desirable criteria
- BM’s & physiological observations
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Danielle Robinson
- Job title
- Lead Immunisation Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07967813265
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