The closing date is 09 July 2025
Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a confident, enthusiastic and motivated nurse, with established immunisation experience, to join our friendly team in the Occupational Health Service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
We are looking for a dynamic individual to have responsibility for the leadership, coordination and delivery of LTHT Occupational Health immunisations. Ensuring the organisation complies with UKSHAs national principles, practices and procedures for occupational immunisations.
Job responsibilities
Working within LTHT Occupational Health department the post holder will:
Have responsibility for the leadership, coordination and delivery of LTHT Occupational Health immunisations. Ensuring the organisation complies with UKSHAs national principles, practices and procedures for occupational immunisations.
Co-ordinate the safe and efficient delivery of the LTHT Winter Vaccination campaign, as required catch up campaigns and outbreak response programmes.
Work within the Occupational Health Team to provide health promotion and support around immunisations to LTHT employees.
Support the embedding of effective governance arrangements and ensuring adherence to these.
Ensure all staff administering immunisations, both permanent and bank staff, maintain consistently excellent standards of clinical practice
Organise and deliver training programmes for Occupational Health nurses and support staff, covering theory and practice of safe vaccine administration including co-ordinating all new starter training which will include induction, training competencies and annual updates in accordance with the National Minimum Standards and Core Curriculum for Immunisation Training for registered Healthcare Practitioners.
Act as a source for expert immunisation knowledge and information within LTHT.
Oversee the ordering, storage and transport of vaccines, maintenance of immunisation equipment and provision of required resources.
Be responsible for the development/updating of processes, policy, procedures including immunisation protocols, written instructions and patient group directives.
Contribute to managing the administrative and financial aspects of Occupational Health immunisations, ensuring cost effective use of all resources.
Depending on previous experience or the undertaking of further training this position may offer an opportunity to undertake additional roles within the Occupational Health department to meet service needs.
Person Specification
Skills & Behaviours
Essential
- Driven by a positive, proactive, can-do mindset
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Caring and compassionate
- Strong clinical role model
- Willing to undergo training as required
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working within immunisation services
- Evidence of managing staff/leadership
- Service development and/or change management
Desirable
- Project management/LIM training
- Previous experience of working within an Occupational Health service
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
Desirable
- First level degree
- Non-medical prescribing
- Recognised Occupational Health qualification
Other Criteria
Essential
- IT skills – ability to use all MS office applications
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).