COVID-19 vaccine appointments

Book your vaccination appointment (first dose)

You can get your first dose if you're:

• aged 12 years or over
  
• clinically at risk (moderate risk)
  
• clinically extremely vulnerable (high risk)
• health or social worker
  

Book your booster (third dose)

You can get your booster dose if you're:

• a care home resident
  
• health and social care staff including care and domestic home care staff
  
• aged 80 years or over
  

Online booking

Appointments will be at the COVID-19 Vaccination Centre at  Fort Regent. You'll receive an SMS or email confirming your appointment details. 

When booking appointments, make sure you have the following information available:

• name, address, phone number
  
• Social Security number
  
• date of birth
  
• letter from the vaccination team if you're clinically extremely vulnerable or clinically at risk (take this letter to your appointment)
  

For those who don't have access to the internet, you can:

• ask family, friends and neighbours to book on your behalf
• call the coronavirus helpline
  

Home visit

If you received your second dose at home, you will be contacted by the vaccine programme in the next 2 weeks to arrange a booster.

If you did not receive your second dose at home but are now considered housebound, you should call the helpline to register for a home visit.

Children and young people aged 12 years old and over

All children and young people aged 12 years old and over are eligible for the Pfizer/Biontech COVID-19 vaccine from Monday 27 September. The vaccine is optional.

Aged 12 to 15 years old

If you are aged 12 to 15, you will need a parent or carer to fill out the vaccine form for you and give consent. A parent or carer must attend your appointment with you.

Appointments will start from Monday 27 September.

There will be a special area for 12 to 15 year olds set up at Fort Regent. There will be a team of staff who have experience giving vaccines to young people.

We have already offered vaccinations for 12 to 15 year olds in at risk groups.

Aged 16 and 17 years old

Once young people reach 16, they are presumed in law to be competent to give consent for themselves.

Vaccine information for young people aged 16 and 17 years old

Booster vaccination (third dose)

Following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, Jersey's COVID-19 Booster Vaccination Programme will be offering a third booster dose of the vaccine to Islanders who are more at risk of serious disease from COVID. This includes those who were vaccinated in the early stages of the vaccination programme:

• Islanders living in residential care homes for older adults
• adults aged 50 years or over
• health and social care workers
• Islanders aged 16 to 49 years with underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk of severe COVID-19, including adult carers
• adult household contacts of immunosuppressed individuals
  

Booster appointments

Third dose for severely immunocompromised people

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised that people over the age of 12 with severely weakened immune systems should have a third vaccine dose as part of their primary COVID-19 vaccination schedule.

JVCI advice and list of who can receive a third dose on gov.uk

People who need a third dose are those who had a severely weakened immune system around the time they had their first 2 doses. This includes those who had or have: 

• blood cancers (such as leukaemia or lymphoma) 
• lowered immunity due to treatment (such as steroid medication, biological therapy, chemotherapy or radiotherapy) 
• lowered immunity due to inherited disorders of the immune system 
• an organ or bone marrow transplant 
• diseases that affect the immune system such as poorly controlled HIV 
• other diseases or treatments as advised by your specialist

How to get your third dose

We are working with GPs and specialist teams to contact people who are severely immunosuppressed. The Vaccination Team will be in touch with you to arrange your third dose.

If you have not heard from the team but think you might be severely immunocompromised and eligible for a third dose after reading the list of conditions, you should contact your GP or specialist team who will be able to make a referral.

This offer is separate to any potential booster programme.

Second dose

Second doses of the vaccine are scheduled between 4 and 12 weeks from the date you receive your first dose. 

You'll receive an email or SMS with confirming the date and time of your second appointment.

Dose intervals

Second dose of vaccine English Easy Read (PDF)

Vaccine appointments

At your appointment

Arrive no longer than 15 minutes before your appointment.

When you go to your appointment, you'll need to:

• bring proof of address
• bring photo ID confirming date of birth
  
• bring letter from the vaccination team if you're clinically extremely vulnerable or clinically at risk
  
• wear a mask
  
• wear loose clothing to make sure the vaccine can be administered to the upper arm
  

The average time for appointments is 30 to 45 minutes. This includes a booking in, the vaccination and then a 15 minute wait afterward.

After you get the vaccine

We ask you wait 15 minutes after your vaccination in a supervised waiting area.

You can carry on with your day as normal as long as you feel well.

What to expect after the vaccine English Easy Read (PDF)

Bringing someone with you for support

You can bring someone with you to your appointment for support.

Vaccination centre parking

The vaccination centre is at Fort Regent.

Free parking (2 hours maximum) for people attending vaccination appointments will be on floors 10, 11 and 12 of Pier Road car park.

Shuttle bus from Liberation Station

A shuttle bus service, with 6 seats and wheelchair space, will operate from Liberation Station Stand O. The bus will depart every 20 minutes at the following times:

• Monday to Friday, 11.30am to 6.30pm
  
• Saturday and Sunday, 8.30am to 3.30pm
  

Jersey residents in the UK including students

If you're a Jersey resident and currently in England and have an NHS number, you can use the national booking service to book a vaccination appointment.

To book a vaccination appointment in the UK, you'll need: 

• name
  
• date of birth
  
• postcode
  
• GP record/NHS number
  

Book online on the NHS website or call 119.

Students will be able to have their first or second dose of the vaccine in the UK if they:

• have an NHS number
• are registered with a GP
  
• are eligible for the vaccination

If you've had your first dose of the vaccine in the UK, you can have your second dose in Jersey 10 weeks after your first vaccine.

If you've had your first dose of the vaccine in Jersey and will be returning to the UK, you can have your second dose in the UK.

Types of vaccine

In the UK and Jersey, there are 3 types of COVID-19 vaccine that are currently being used:

• Pfizer BioNtech vaccine
• AstraZeneca (Oxford) vaccine
  
• Moderna
  

You'll be advised of the vaccine at your appointment.

Vaccine information

If you feel unwell

If you're unwell, it's better to wait until you have recovered to have your vaccine, but you should have it as soon as possible. If you have COVID-19 you can have the vaccine 4 weeks following a positive test. You should not attend a vaccine appointment if you're:

• isolating
  
• waiting for a COVID-19 test
• unsure if you're fit and well
  

Side effects

Translated information

Further vaccine information translated in Portuguese, Polish, Romanian and Bulgarian