THE Wimmera Community Vaccination Clinic needs more vaccinator workers.
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Lister House Medical Centre chief officer Amanda Wilson said to help rotate vaccinators, they require more trained staff to help fight fatigue.
"We need qualified vaccinators," she said.
"That's being a registered nurse or enrolled nurse, in either Diploma one or two.
"Anybody who is eligible to give vaccines, they have to undertake COVID-19 safe training.
"There are two lots of training."
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Ms Wilson said anyone who was willing to be a part of the rollout and "literally roll their sleeves up to help the community" was welcome to apply.
"If people want to do the training, want to do some vaccination and want to be a part of the community rollout and be a part of the bigger picture, that would be amazing," she said.
Ms Wilson said doctors and nurses rotated through vaccinating 80-100 people a day, with about four to five people vaccinating at one time.
"They call it vaccine fatigue," she said.
"I'm trying to rotate around so I don't make everybody tired of doing the same thing all the time because we have been doing this since April.
"We've got plenty of vaccines to give out, if I've got plenty of people to help give them out."
To apply for the paid role, email health@listerhouseclinic.com.au.
Ms Wilson said they are willing to work around what is best for the applicant, whether it is full days, half days or a few hours.
"Our staff are happy to keep working," she said.
"We're working because we know that our community needs us.
"It just means we can continue if everyone isn't tired."
At the Wimmera Health Care Group Vaccination Clinic on McLachlan street, co-ordinator Genevieve Lilley said they were also pushing for more nurses to come on board.
"Most of our nurses have very limited availability as they are working additional days to their existing jobs, but this has mostly been ok, as we are also restricted by low vaccine availability for now," Ms Lilley said.
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"Lots of nurses want to be involved because the vaccine rollout is such an important thing, but there are very few unemployed nurses around - many of them can only work a day a week."
She said more nurses were needed on the books in preparation for the increased supply the clinic was expecting in a month or so.
"We have a number of grants from the Health Department for nurses studying immunisation, and lots of nurses have put their hands up for those and are willing to work extra days in the vaccination clinic which is fantastic," Ms Lilley said.
Ms Lilley also said they were waiting on confirmation about vaccination training.
"The health department is also looking at ways to increase the vaccination workforce by training up people in allied health professions, so were waiting for confirmation on exactly how that will work," she said.
"Hopefully we will have physios, podiatrists, speech therapists and other professions also able to help out."
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