Urgent appeal for more healthcare professionals to give Covid jabs

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust has today (Tuesday) made an urgent appeal on behalf of the local NHS to get more healthcare professionals involved in administering the vaccine with full training being given to those who take part.

A number of new vaccination centres are being set up in the area and each one requires dozens of staff to administer the jabs.

Any registered healthcare professional can play a part after appropriate training – most of which they can do online at home.

Retired professionals can join a temporary register up to five years after they have left the permanent register.

The government aims to vaccinate everyone in the UK considered the most vulnerable, including the elderly and frontline workers, by mid-February, with more than four million already having received their first of two jabs of the 15 million being targeted in the first cohorts.

Anne Scott, director of nursing, allied health professionals and quality said: “We are looking for staff who are registered healthcare professionals, or could easily re-register.

“This includes a wide range of professions such as physiotherapists, pharmacists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists as well as nurses and doctors.

“We will be offering full and part-time work over the next few months.

“You will be very welcome.

“Staff who have already been involved in the programme have said it is hugely rewarding to help deliver vaccines which protect life, and will help the country return to normal.”

We are also looking for administrative staff to welcome patients and to help ensure accurate records are kept for members of the public receiving the vaccination.

In addition, this project is looking for volunteers to help patients at the vaccination sites.

Go to www.leicspart.nhs.uk/supportvaccinations to register as a vaccinator and to get more information on the appeal.