JOB OBJECTIVE

The vaccine coordinator will develop and implement routine and emergency vaccine management plan. The vaccine coordinator is responsible for all vaccine management activities, including training staff.  The vaccine coordinator reports to the Clinicas Nurse Manager and is responsible for the vaccine management across all of the Clinicas Health Center sites.  

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Vaccine Coordinator is responsible for performing the following duties:

• Ensures vaccines are delivered and designated employees at each site are trained to receive and store vaccines
• Ensure processes are in place to monitor expiration dates and inventory rotation so that the shorter expiration dates are used first. 
• Responsible for the set up and monitoring of vaccine temperatures ensuring vaccine monitoring devices are properly working.
• Ensure vaccine temperatures are being monitored at each site, and take immediate action when temperatures are outside acceptable ranges. 
• Implement the emergency vaccine management plan, if necessary. 
• Regularly review and analyze temperature data per policy.
• Ensure all vaccine policies are up-to-date and reflect current vaccine management evidence based best practices. 
• Perform a physical inventory of all vaccines in stock. Accounting for doses of returned, expired or transferred vaccines since last order.