Any immunisation nurses around?

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Hi, am looking for a bit of advice as I am considering applying for a pre-school immunisation nurse post. I currently do bank shifts only and have no experience of giving immunisations (but have given injections aplenty in my time!). Anyone have experience in this type of field? Is it repetitive/stressful/do the parents get a bit demanding or intense a lot of the time? Or is it an enjoyable and rewarding speciality?

All opinions gratefully welcome

I’m a practice nurse so immunisations are part of my role. I didn’t realise it was it’s own specific role. Who would you be working for?

I enjoy immunisation, theoretically interesting and in my experience parents are engaged and interested as they’ve brought their child to the clinic specifically.

I can imagine it would be a bit repetitive if it was the only thing you were doing, I don’t do immunisation clinics specifically, I just have appointments booked randomly by patients.

It's a newly created post (ten are advertised) in NHS Greater Glasgow and appears to be immunisations only, it looks to be part of a new scheme for immunisation.

Is it part of the school immunisation teams or is it just for small children?

Looks to be for small children as it's a clinical setting.

No mention of schools

Another Practice Nurse here. I give baby imms and pre school vaccs, it is a small part of my job and I def would not want to do it all of the time. Noisy, repetitive and would get boring quickly

I don’t know the Scottish health system so I don’t know if it’s not in the GP contracts or not for it to be provided in primary care.
I think I’d get a bit bored if it was all I was doing to be fair.
Plus I hate giving the 13mth jabs, I like the 3 year olds mind you.

Another practice nurse. Some parents don't bring their DC when they should, get far behind on the schedule, move around and lose their red books. They are hard work and chasing up what they've been given and when and catching them up to the schedule, although essential, is a PITA. Other parents are very anxious, question you to the tenth degree and don't cope well with you injecting their little ones. So it depends on your demographic.
I love vaccinating generally as it's very black and white with clear guidance, but all the time? No.

Another practice nurse here.
I agree with all the above, it's a job one can do well for all of the above reasons. I quite like it, as one can get to know parents and hopefully give them well informed and reasurring guidance.
But if that was ALL I was doing, I'd feel bored and frustrated.
I'd be looking at how the role will be expanded and developed.
I've just dipped out of a " new role", " new speciality " with "new" money from the CCG. I stuck it put for 10 months.
It was hideous. No infrastructure, no long-term prospect, ( except they wanted mine).
Think long and hard, is all I'd say.

Thank you for all the responses. I may need to let this job pass me by I think! Am a bit envious of some of the roles you guys have. Practice Nursing sounds interesting and varied, but possibly not for a rusty part time bank nurse such as me!