The Head of Service for the Immunisation Service is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership to ensure the delivery of services are provided in accordance with national and local guidanceas well as commissioning intentions. As the Clinical Lead for Immunisations, the post holder will be a clinical specialist within the field of immunisations and will support clinical delivery in line with an agreed job plan.

The role will include leading contract management for the IT data management system, storage management services providing logistic services and the courier service. As part of overseeing service delivery, the post holder will be accountable for monitoring and managing performance within the service including key performance and quality outcome indicators.

Main duties of the job

The Head of Service is responsible for the effective delivery of services within budget, and will act as abudget holder with authorised signatory status, responsible for ensuring that service process and staffadhere to standing financial instructions.The Head of Service is responsible for the development and delivery of service cost improvement plans, in line with trust efficiency savings targets.The Head of Service is responsible for developing, delivering and monitoring contracts via service level agreements in all service services.

About us

Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

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Job description

Job responsibilities

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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It is important to us that all our staff are aligned to our Values and in particular the behaviours we expect from KCHFT managers. With this in mind as part of the selection process for this position you will be asked to complete two other activities in addition to the competency-based interview that you will invited to. This extended selection process is designed to assess your management style and the specific details of the exercises will be given if you are successfully shortlisted. The provisional date of the selection event is 12th August, although this may be subject to change.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered health care professional (NMC or HCPC registration)

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in area of practice

Employer details

Employer name

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trinity House

Ashford

TN25 4AZ

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