Maternity Vaccination Nurse

The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team delivering a flexible, safe, and effective vaccination service for pregnant women and service users at Royal Surrey Hospital.

The maternity services offers various vaccinations to pregnant women during the course of their pregnancy. The post holder is responsible for ensuring maternity vaccination health promotion, availability and administration of vaccines to pregnant women/people, including ensuring adequate record keeping and reporting to GPs., The post holder will have overall responsibility for delivery of maternal vaccinations at Royal Surrey and surrounding community hubs. They will ensure efficient and effective administration of the maternal Flu, Pertussis and RSV vaccination programmes. They will work closely with the Maternity Vaccination Fail Safe Officer to maintain oversight of vaccination appointments, ordering of and ensuring adequate stock levels of vaccines available, complete GP reporting for administered vaccines and monthly returns for vaccinations given.

They will be responsible for ensuring all those eligible for the vaccination programme are offered the relevant vaccine and support maternity staff to increase awareness of healthy pregnancy choices to maternity service users. They will deliver daily vaccination clinics to ensure coverage, capacity and timeliness of vaccination. They will ensure all documentation with regards to vaccinations performed by themselves or others is accurate and support the vaccination failsafe officer to complete all GP and external provider reporting.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.