Team Leader - School Aged Vaccination Programme - Brigg

European LifeCare Group is one of Europe's largest independent provider of travel clinics and public vaccination programmes.

Founded in 1998, today European LifeCare Group has specialist clinics covering most of Denmark and the UK, where the company trades under a number of brands, including Danske Lægers Vaccinations Service, Vaccination UK, London Travel Clinic and Citydoc.

European LifeCare Group also works for both the Danish and English National Health Service as a contracted service provider of immunisation programmes in schools and national influenza vaccination programmes.

About Us

Since 2015, NHS England has contracted Vaccination UK, a dynamic and rapidly growing company, to provide school-aged immunisations, including influenza vaccinations, to students in many counties and boroughs across England, including the Black Country, Hertfordshire, Hereford and Worcester, and nine North East London boroughs.

Job Title: Team Leader

Permanent Contract

Pay: £26,325 per annum

Hours: 09.00am to 5:00pm

Overtime: Dependent on needs to the business

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Location: Brigg and other surrounding areas

Benefits: Pension (5% employee contribution)

Employee Assistant Programme

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You must be able to commit for the entire duration of the contract.

MAIN DUTIES

The postholder will be responsible for leading and managing teams of administrators and clinicians and ensuring NHS school aged vaccination programmes are delivered on time and results are achieved in line with contract specifications.

& Responsibilities

• Provide a rota to cover all administrators and nurses, at least 8 weeks in advance in accordance with the relevant SOP.
• Order and maintain supplies to ensure nurses can replenish cases for school sessions in line with VUK guidance.
• Implement change rapidly in collaboration with SMT .
• Responsible for leading and managing teams including performance absence, etc.
• Attend and undertake quality audits in schools, gain feedback from all stakeholders after each session.
• Responsible for ensuring all team members are well trained and adhere to protocol.
• Maintain and manage the rota to reflect any changes in staffing
• Collaborate with schools and Programme Manger where uptake is low, to implement relevant improvement plans, and strategies agreed upon.
• Preparation of school calendar for school immunisation sessions and catch up clinics.
• Support Programme Manager with their workload, and undertake delegated duties where necessary.
• Responsible for maintaining the cold chain, ordering , and arranging transport of vaccinations to site.
• Manage with the onboarding of new recruits as directed by the Programme Manager and the recruitment team, following processes and protocols at all times.
• Responsible for team budgets and forecasting templates in accordance with KPI’s.
• Liaise with the Training to ensure all health and safety requirements are met.
• Develop improvement plans on an annual basis or as and when required.
• Continuous review of uptake figures is mandatory
• Ensure staff work towards company goals and objectives.
• Ensuring anaphylaxis kits are checked and arrange replacement if required one month before expiry.
• Undertake other duties commensurate with the level of this position
• Familiar with Patient Group Directives (PGD’s) for immunisations and ensure staff have access to a copy in their cases and all clinical staff sign the master copy
• Facilitate health promotion activities alongside the clinical team
• Comply with Company polices & procedures
• Manage consent form triaging in line with Immunisation Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
• Arrange emergency cover for administrative and clinical staff in the event of absence or sickness.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• People management experience.
• Excellent IT skills and advance MS Excel.
• Excellent communication both written and verbal.
• Assertive, team player and critical thinker.
• In-depth knowledge of performance metrics.
• Willingness to learn the principles of consent, (under 16 years of age).
• Experience as a Team Leader or similar role.
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills.
• Leadership/Management qualification - desirable.

Mandatory Training

This post is subject to all mandatory training provided by the company which must be completed prior to starting. This includes Safeguarding for Children, BLS, Anaphylaxis and Infection Control.

DBS

We require all successful candidates to have a DBS (Disclosure and barring Service) criminal record check, which is paid by the Company. If you have anything to declare before we received the checks please let us know during the interview stage.