Vaccination and Immunisation Coordinator

The post holder will be a member of Immunisation team and work alongside the Immunisation Team Leader providing professional support and leadership to team members. The role combines both managerial and clinical elements; you will provide day to day management for the immunisation team whilst supporting the delivery of the national childhood immunisation programme across the Mersey Care Footprint. You will also provide expert advice to the wider 0 - 19 children's nursing teams in addition to practice nurses, parents, carers, and children and young people advising about immunisations., Operational management of the Immunisation team including personal development reviews, supervision, assist with recruitment, selection, induction and retention of staff. You will be involved in education and clinical practice development, including providing training to Mersey Care Staff and be involved in audit and policy reviews as required. You will be responsible for the organisation, smooth running and administration of the nurse led immunisation sessions across the wide variety of venues that are utilised. You will also be active in the follow up of non-immunised children/ defaulters; providing information, advice and updating data as required, liaising closely with relevant health professionals, and making appropriate arrangements or referrals. To take the lead on immunisation training courses, support competency building of new immunisers and to act as an expert resource for health professionals and parents. Assist with any local & national immunisation campaigns including
outbreaks.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.