Assistant Screening and Immunisation Coordinator | NHS England
| Posting date: | 31 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 January 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB21 5XA |
| Company: | NHS England |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6867695/990-EOE-6867695-E |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to use your screening and immunisation knowledge to help shape care and improve services in the East of England as a member of the Screening and Immunisation Team.
This is a fixed term/secondment for a Band 6 role of Assistant Screening and Immunisation Coordinator is to support the commissioning of safe, high quality national screening and Immunisation programmes specifically in the Essex and Suffolk areas.
You will provide direct support across a range of commissioning activities to ensure programmes meet national requirements and are delivered safely and effectively, focussing on reducing health inequalities and inequities.
The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, organised and passionate about public health. You will have relevant knowledge and experience of working with screening and/or immunisation programmes, the ability to manage competing priorities, evaluate and present complex data, and have good communication skills. Effective team-working is vital, and we offer a supportive environment for further learning. Applicants should have experience of leading service improvement and building good working relationships with stakeholders.
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on theGovernment website.
You can find further details about the job in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
We are particularly interested in hearing from applicants who have a background or experience of antenatal and newborn and/or cervical screening programmes.
Our team prides itself on having an inclusive culture. We incorporate the NHS People Promise into our everyday work and aim to provide learning opportunities, promote staff health and wellbeing, and provide a compassionate and rewarding team environment.
We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We encourage applications even if you feel you don’t meet all requirements listed. Where the minimum educational requirements are not met, candidates should be explicit in detailing their equivalent relevant experience.
Additionally we are seeking a colleague who has;
• ability to travel regularly to areas in Essex not well served by public transport
• able to work from home as well as from the office base as required by business need (Fulbourn, or Basildon)
• good teamworking skills as well as being self-disciplined
• can work flexibly but available within the core hours of 9-4 for meetings
• the post is Full Time, but will consider 0.8 WTE. Flexible flexible working requests will be considered
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Jan 2025