Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

Senior Immunisation Nurse Band 6 - Kingston & Richmond

This post offers an excellent opportunity to develop your knowledge, skills and experience in immunisations within our Children and Young People's Immunisation Service in Kingston & Richmond, based in Centre House, Sheen.

As a Senior Immunisation Nurse you will be responsible for planning, delivery and evaluation of the school immunisation programme.  Travelling across the borough to schools is a large part of this role.

The role also includes being able to assess and understand the prerequisites of giving an immunization, understanding the contra-indications, the aftercare and the relevant advice to give to the parents/carers. You must be able to provide support, mentorship, guidance and supervision to junior nursing staff and administrative staff members of the Immunisation service.

You will be required to be flexible. When not working with the school aged Immunisation, you may be required to support the Hep B team or BCG team.

Main duties of the job

This post offers an excellent opportunity to develop your knowledge skills and experience with children and young people within our Immunisation service.
The established team is expanding with the immunisation service needs. You will work as a senior immunisation nurse for school aged Immunisation service.  

As the Senior Immunisation Nurse, you will be responsible for planning, delivering and staffing for the school aged immunisation service.   You will be supported by  the Immunisation lead.

This will include being able to assess infants and children and understand the prerequisites of giving an immunisation, understanding the contra-indications, the aftercare and the relevant advice to give to the young person.

In order to give your application the best opportunity,  please ensure that you address all the requirements of the person specification when writing your supporting statement.

Working for our organisation

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible. Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.

In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users. 

Infection Control

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.