Will vaccinators be vaccinated?

[BrownFootStool]

Is anyone working as a vaccinator who didn't get the vaccine through their main job (ie you weren't already NHS staff but non-NHS who have applied to be a vaccinator)? Did they offer you the vaccine?

St John's Ambulance have said their vaccinators won't get the jab cos their procedures are 'covid secure'.

However, surely working with the public in a health care setting at close range, would class you as eligible?

Looking to hear from people doing this work.

For clarity, I am an HE administator who applied to be a vaccinator with NHSP on the side and I am wondering if I will be offered the vax or not.

I’m doing it through a GP practice and yes I had it at my training session.
I’m a dentist in my day job so would have got it in group 2 anyway though.

My friend is volunteering as a vaccinator and has been told he won't be vaccinated. Seems bizarre to me!

In practice, I imagine you would get it due to using up the left over doses, even if you weren't officially offered it

I think vaccinators absolutely should be given the vaccine. GP friend who has spent her time going into care homes to vaccinate residents now has covid as a result.

She had not had the vaccine.

But will the people who vaccinate the vaccinators also get vaccinated? If so, what about the people who vaccinate the vaccinators who vaccinate the vaccinators?

@AuntyClementine The vaccinators of vaccintors would also be vaccinators

They can't do it as a matter of course because arseholes would volunteer, go to the training, get the job and bugger off, never to be seen again.

@MrsTerryPratchett

They can't do it as a matter of course because arseholes would volunteer, go to the training, get the job and bugger off, never to be seen again.

This unfortunately. I bet you get it though.

I know a vaccinator. She only got the vaccine because there were some left over due to no-shows, which would have been wasted otherwise.

@MrsTerryPratchett

They can't do it as a matter of course because arseholes would volunteer, go to the training, get the job and bugger off, never to be seen again.

Honestly, there's so much training you have to do, you'd have to be really desperate 😄

I’m admin in a vaccination centre - everyone - vaccinators, admin, security, and management had the vaccine before we started.

In the Green Book, staff working on the covid vaccination programme are counted as frontline healthcare staff (Group 2).

I'm a vaccinator. We can only work if we've had the first vaccine

My dc is a med student and has been vaccinating in his city hubs for the last couple of weeks.
He got a left over jab at the end of his session

@BrownFootStool if you are part of NHSP (as am I) I believe you can apply to get a vaccine, I know you can in my health authority.

Everyone volunteering at my vaccine hub (where I also volunteer) has been able to put their name on the list if there is any left over vaccine at the end of the day. According to a BBC news report a few days ago we are considered ‘front line workers’.

Prob not official

But can imagine one evening you would be vaccinated because there are ‘spare’ ones left over

My friend has volunteered as a vaccinator and they aren’t not being giving it routinely but he has had both doses from left over stock.