User guide Inviting children to community clinics

Children will be added to the cohort for community clinics if:

  • they are shown as being homeschooled in the nominal roll
  • their school is unknown
  • they don’t receive a vaccination in school

Scheduling community clinics

To create dates for community clinics:

  1. Go to Sessions.
  2. Go to the Unscheduled tab.
  3. Go to the Community clinic link.
  4. Click on Schedule sessions.
  5. Follow the process as you would for school sessions.

To add or amend dates for community clinics:

  1. Go to Sessions.
  2. Go to the Scheduled tab.
  3. Go to the Community clinic link (there is just one for all clinics).
  4. Go to Edit session.
  5. Follow the process as you would for school sessions.

Inviting parents to book slots

Once a child is added to the cohort for community clinics, their parent or guardian will receive an email (and potentially a text) inviting them to book a clinic slot through your local booking system.

This email will either go out:

  • three weeks before the date of the first clinic scheduled, or
  • at 9am the day after the child is added to the community clinics cohort, if this happens less than three weeks before the date of the first clinic.

If the child is still in the cohort for community clinics three weeks before the second clinic, the parent or guardian will get another email inviting them to book in for that clinic. This will keep happening until three weeks before the last scheduled clinic session, unless a child has consent, in which case subsequent invitations won’t be sent.

To check whether an invitation email has been sent:

  1. Go to Check consent responses.
  2. In the No response tab, click on the name of a child to view the child record.
  3. Click on Activity log.

Once a parent has booked a clinic slot through your local booking system, you need to make sure you have consent to vaccinate the child.

If you do not have consent, you need to manually send a consent request. To do this:

  1. In the Community clinic page, go to Check consent responses.
  2. Click into the child’s record and scroll down.
  3. Click on Send consent request.

This will trigger an email to the parent or guardian.

You could also try to get consent over the phone. To do this:

  1. In the Community clinic page, go to Check consent responses.
  2. Click into the child’s record and scroll down.
  3. Click on Get consent response.
  4. Phone the parent and work through the consent flow to record their response in Mavis.