Registered Health Care Professional - Vaccination and Rapid Response Team

As a Registered Health Care Professional working in the Vaccination and Rapid Response Team, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering a safe and effective service.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake clinical assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating activities along with wider disease prevention and health promotion activities in a variety of settings.
• Protect those who are most at risk of serious illness or death from infectious disease and reduce transmission of the infection.
• Enable the delivery of vaccinations to all eligible patients by assisting with the overall coordination of the site activity and day-to-day delivery of vaccination programmes.
• Ensure clinic rooms and equipment are available at the start of each session.
• Ensure knowledge of conditions that affect suitability for vaccination and previous vaccination history.
• Administer vaccinations across all age groups in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings, in line with local and national policy, procedure, and legal frameworks.
• Report and record all clinical assessments, care, and treatment, escalating any concerns and issues in a timely way.
• Conduct clinical assessments within vaccination activity and wider disease prevention and health promotion.
• Respond to episodes of low-level communicable disease outbreaks and incidents in Lincolnshire so they are managed in a rapid and effective manner, reducing the risk of onward transmission and wider outbreaks.
• Administer pre and post-exposure prophylaxis and treatment for low-level communicable disease outbreaks in a variety of settings.
• Conduct patient assessments, testing, and treatment/prophylaxis under the Patient Group Directive in response to low-level communicable disease outbreaks. Ensure all activities are documented in the records system.