Cogent Staffing
Cogent Staffing are looking for a Care Coordinator to join our clients team in Halifax, handling childhood immunisations.
The successful candidate will travel independently between 4 different practices in North Halifax, working on a rota basis.
Shifts & salary:
- 12 month fixed term contract
- Monday to Friday
- 30 – 37.5 hours a week
- £23,000 salary
Key responsibilities:
- Undertake responsibilities in line with practice demand for childhood vaccinations.
- Provide education and advocacy about the benefits and safety of vaccinations, addressing any concerns in misconceptions individuals and their carers.
- Work with practices to facilitate easy access to immunisation services.
- Track immunisation rates and follow up with families.
- Build and maintain relationships with patients and families with consideration to health inequalities and diversity.
- Participate in outreach activities to raise childhood vaccination awareness and uptake.
- Work closely with other health, social and educational care professionals, such as
- local schools, childcare providers, to identify and support patients making sure that access to appropriate vaccinations is available to them and ensuring that their needs are met.
- Report on progress, challenges and outcomes to management and stakeholders.
- Proactively identify and work with registered patients, their families and carers to support their personalised care needs in order to achieve vaccination uptake.
- Ensure that people have good quality information to help them make educated choices to vaccinate.
- Signpost support to patients/family/carers on information about immunisations.
- Maintain accurate patient records at all times.
Key requirements:
- Flexibility and ability to carry out other duties within the role as required.
- GCSE level educated
- Experience with customer service
- Preferably experience working in healthcare, or social care.
- Excellent communication skills.
- IT skills, including Microsoft Office.
- Able to work under pressure successfully.
- Able to follow procedure and policy.
- Please not successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check.
Cogent Staffing is an equal opportunities recruiter, and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation, or age.
