Immunisation Engagement Officer

Immunisation Engagement Officer

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The closing date is 25 January 2026

We are looking for someone who is keen to help develop and enhance the reach of the School Age Immunisation programme through analysis and engagement activities with our target populations.

We are keen to understand the barriers to vaccinations and try to overcome these to help increase the uptake of school age immunisations. This role would be to help identify and monitor our schools/areas with the lowest uptake as well as delivering activities to promote the immunisation programmes, gain responses to vaccination invitations and help share information about vaccinations.

An ideal candidate would have excellent communication skills and evidence of working with families, a good understanding of the school age immunisations programme and have good analytical skills to pick up on trends. Being able to utilise digital technologies would also be desirable.

This role will be based in the Southampton area and you will need to be able to travel to different locations in a day. The service covers the whole of Hampshire and travel to other sites in this area may also be needed.

• Communicating with families around barriers to vaccinations
• To support and encourage all staff within the service to integrate participation in daily practice as well as service development and provision of training; working proactively and collaboratively with clinical teams to overcome any challenges around embedding the principles of good participation in their profession or team.
• To design and deliver engagement and participation activities with children and young people and their parents/carers using a full range of techniques so that they are meaningfully engaged in a way that is enjoyable, safe, and ethical and where they can have genuine influence on improving services.
• Attend key meetings at service, trust- and system-level to raise profile and demonstrate effectiveness of participation.
• Work with colleagues to learn from experience/insight of patients, carers, and their families, using it to identify areas for improvement and ideas for change and measure the impact of improvement activity.
• Ensuring safeguarding of all the young people and adults present. To ensure that confidentiality is maintained within the boundaries of relevant codes of professional conduct and legal responsibilities.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your…