School Nurse Immunisation Co-ordinator

The post holder will provide visible, professional and compassionate leadership in, and clinical expertise to the School Nursing team, in alignment with the health board values. The successful candidate will be required to work in close partnership with the School Nursing team, health board colleagues and partnership agencies to support the inclusion and equity of immunisations offered to school aged children across the HB. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading on the planning, implementation, delivery and the evaluation of the school aged vaccination programme across the CTM. As well as leading on governance and service improvement of immunisation delivery, to provide quality assurance of immunisations delivered by the School Nursing team.

We are looking for an individual who has an innovative, creative and can do approach to overcoming challenges that can arise from such a large immunisation programme. A broad knowledge of childhood immunisations is essential, along with the wider understanding of the health needs of the school aged population, within the health board and Wales. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.