NHS Kent and Medway ICB
1-day Vaccine Champions Programme
Dates:
Tuesday 4th, Wednesday 5th, Thursday 6th, Tuesday 25th or Wednesday 26th March 2025
Location:
Mercure Maidstone, Great Danes Hotel, Near Maidstone Kent ME17 1RE
The UK is currently experiencing a significant decrease in vaccine coverage and an increasing risk of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Following the success of Let’s Talk About Vaccines training in Kent and Medway, we have launched a 1-day Vaccine Champions programme. This programme provides coaching tools and support to enable you to have meaningful conversations with staff and service users, to help people make informed decisions around vaccinations.
The Vaccine Champions programme provides you with an opportunity to support vaccination uptake to address vaccine hesitancy and provide education.
This is a fully interactive and reflective programme with opportunities to practice techniques, discuss experience and approaches with peers and colleagues and reflect on practice.
The cohort:
This is available to all health, social care and voluntary sectors within Kent and Medway.
The course offers an excellent opportunity to:
Collaborate with other healthcare professionals.
Develop skills to encourage conversations about vaccination.
Learn theory, skills and knowledge to apply to day-to-day conversation with your service users.
Build on existing knowledge and skills that you already have.
Modules will include:
Understanding how people learn and think.
Understanding a coaching mindset.
Structuring conversations using a coaching approach.
Practicing key communication skills.
Using Making Every Contact Count (MECC).
A range of tools to explore vaccine hesitancy.
Location of workshops:
All the training on this programme will be facilitated face to face.
The location and timings of the workshop can be found on the application form below, and the timings will be from 09:30 – 16:30.
NHS Kent and Medway ICB
Approaching vaccine uptake through ‘healthy conversations’
Let’s Talk About Vaccines (LTaV) is a training session to help build your confidence, skills and knowledge to open up discussions with service users about vaccination decisions in your local area.
This 2.5-hour online, interactive session is free to health, social care and voluntary sector staff within the NHS Kent and Medway ICB footprint.
This training uses approaches from:
- Making Every Contact Count (MECC)
- Shared Decision Making
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Aims of the Training:
The training will explore the issues, myths and barriers around vaccine hesitancy, providing you with the techniques and approaches to help people make informed choices. These can be used in your everyday contact with patients as an opportunity to discuss vaccine uptake.
We acknowledge and understand that people may have a good reason not to have a vaccine. By listening to individuals and their concerns and discussing options in a non-judgemental way, the training aims to support you to improve people's knowledge and understanding.
Follow-on Support:
We understand that you don’t stop learning when the session finishes, so following the 2.5-hour session we will also be supporting those that attend with a monthly community of practice (COP). The COPs will be hosted by an experienced coach trainer, who will support you with further skills to embed the training.
The training is available for booking below, and is also followed by a monthly community of practice. Specific dates and times are listed in the application form.
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