Bank Children’s Community Immunisation and Screening Support Assistant

Job Introduction

As a Bank Children’s Community Immunisation and Screening Assistant we value you and your wellbeing, offering a range of benefits to help you feel supported and appreciated:

As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay, at HCRG Care Group you will benefit from:

• Flexible Shift Booking – Self-book bank shifts and request time off up to six weeks in advance for a better work-life balance.
• Wagestream Access – Track and access earned wages anytime, avoiding high-interest loans or overdrafts.
• Professional Growth – Gain experience across various services, access free training, and join our Strive for Better professional network.
• 24/7 Well-being Support – Free counselling, legal advice, financial guidance, and career coaching.
• Innovative Culture – Share ideas, apply for national funding, and contribute to service improvements.
• Recognition & Engagement – Nominate colleagues for awards and participate in executive Q&A sessions.
• Commitment to Excellence – Be part of a team with "Good" or "Outstanding" CQC-rated services.

Are you passionate about making a positive difference to the health and wellbeing of children and young people across Surrey?

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals to be based at locations across Surrey to support with the delivery of the 2026 school-based flu vaccination programme (Years Reception to Year 11) and the National Childhood Measurement Programme (NCMP) for Reception and Year 6 pupils.

Location: Various Primary & Secondary Schools across Surrey

Hours: 15–25 hours per week (between 9:00am – 2:00pm)

Contract: Temporary Bank Contract (up to 18 weeks, with potential extension)

We are offering an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team delivering essential public health programmes in schools across Surrey.

The successful candidate will support the delivery of the school-based Flu Immunisation Programme and the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP).

Training for this role will be provided.

Main Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with professionals, children, young people, families, and the public across diverse settings and communication needs.
• Promote vaccination and general health messages in line with the Making Every Contact Count approach.
• Support all administrative tasks before and after immunisation/NCMP sessions, ensuring accurate data entry, record‑keeping, and timely submission of required statistics.
• Maintain confidentiality , consent awareness, and compliance with information governance policies.
• Assist with ordering equipment, managing resources, and supporting cold chain processes.
• Travel to venues, transport equipment, and help with setting up immunisation/NCMP clinics.
• Maximise vaccination uptake by identifying and reducing barriers during sessions.
• Provide onsite administrative support, including school liaison, post‑immunisation support , and accurate cohort data collection .
• Recognise, escalate, and respond appropriately to concerns, safeguarding issues, or emergencies such as anaphylaxis .
• Ensure equipment and venues are clean, safe, and well maintained.
• Seek service user feedback and contribute to audits, clinical governance, and service improvements.
• Participate in meetings, training, inductions, and maintain 100% compliance with required Quality & Safety training.
• Manage time effectively, support new colleagues, and act with awareness of service costs.

Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Care Certificate (or willingness to complete).
• Excellent written, verbal, and telephone communication skills with a friendly, approachable manner.
• Enthusiasm for working with children and young people, with sensitivity when supporting anxious individuals .
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and organisational skills.
• Able to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Confident building positive professional relationships across clinical and non‑clinical settings.
• Proactive, self‑motivated, and adaptable to changing service needs.
• Quality‑focused, punctual, and aware of safeguarding responsibilities.
• Competent in data entry, databases, and Excel.
• Able to travel as required, with patience and a good sense of humour.

Desirable

• Experience working with children, young people, and schools.
• Experience supporting immunisation sessions.
• Knowledge of child health reporting processes (e.g. cohort data).
• Understanding of cold chain procedures.
• Experience with stock management and ordering.
• Full valid driving licence.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes . We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do .

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone .

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

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