We would like to thank everyone who has registered with Derbyshire Community Health Services to support our vaccination sites as a volunteer steward. Your support and commitment has been critical in the running of the vaccination sites across Derbyshire. Due to the overwhelming response to the campaign for this role we have placed a temporary pause on this vacancy.
As our needs change across the coming weeks and months, we may re-open this vacancy and we would welcome your offer of support; if you would like to join our reserve list please email: dchst.stewards@nhs.net and the team will record your details and will be in touch when we are in a position to increase our volunteer steward roles.
Thank you,
The People Hub
Towards the end of 2020, the Derbyshire Health and Care People Hub, part of Joined Up Careers Derbyshire, launched a campaign to create a pool of people willing to support the health and social care workforce during the pandemic.
The campaign, called Call to Arms, called for expressions of interest from registered health and care professionals and the general public to help support the vaccination programme in Derby and Derbyshire with the Covid-19 vaccine.
We were overwhelmed with the number of expressions of interest received and want to thank everyone who got in touch and provided their details.
The People Hub has been processing the expressions of interest as quickly as possible and we thank everyone for their patience as we continue to work through this. The video that was produced at the start of the campaign is shown below.
At the start of January 2021, we paused the initial invite for general expressions of interest in Call to Arms but are now opening up applications to specific roles.
These roles in the Covid-19 vaccination programme are primarily based at our Mass Vaccination site at Derby Arena (Derby Arena, Royal Way, Derby, DE24 8JB) which operates a seven-day vaccination service.
We do support the primary care networks across Derbyshire at multiple vaccination sites based in GP practices, hospitals and leisure centres when these sites are in operation. Hours will be flexible based on availability/need. The roles are being recruited to by the People Hub (employed by Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust as lead employer).
We are seeking to fill roles for:
If you would like to register your support for any one of the roles above please complete this form and email it to: DCHST.Covidvolunteers@nhs.net
Details about the specific requirements of these roles are shown in the links below.
We are encouraging registered health care professionals to contact us to help support the Covid-19 vaccination programme. You may be looking for additional hours or a professional seeking to return to practice.
Registered health care professionals are responsible for vaccination drawing-up and patient clinical assessment prior to the vaccination, as well as, subject to the precise role, delivery of the vaccination itself.
The role may include:
We are encouraging health care assistants to contact us to help support the Covid-19 vaccination programme. Health care assistants will be involved in supporting the vaccination activity and sanitisation, working closely with the vaccinator and post-vaccination observation volunteers.
We are encouraging administrators to contact us to help support the Covid-19 vaccination programme. Admin staff will be responsible for providing admin support (data recording) to the vaccination activity inside the centres, working closely with the vaccinator.
Please keep checking this page as we are updating content on a regular basis. Thank you to everyone for your support to date.
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