Main area Health Promotion Grade 27,919 Contract Permanent: n/a Hours
* Full time
* Other
35 hours per week (0.) Job ref 828-PROVIDE3450
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Essex Sexual Health Service Town Basildon Salary £27,919 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 31/03/2025 23:59
Job Overview
Essex Sexual Health Service (ESHS) is led by Provide Community and commissioned by Essex County Council. The successful applicant will work as part of the ESHS Outreach and Education Team, and will have a focus on working with seldom heard from communities in Essex to support in the reduction of adverse sexual health outcomes, and reducing health inequalities.
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will support in the design and delivery of effective health promotion (HP) and behavior change communication (BCC) interventions appropriate to the needs of Seldom Heard from Communities namely; People of African/Caribbean Heritage, Commercial Sex Workers (CSW), Men who have sex with men (MSM) and other groups at increased risk of poor sexual health outcomes. Delivery will be through community engagement approaches that tackle HIV related stigma and discrimination.
* The post holder will be expected to undertake comprehensive training in order to achieve Assistant Practitioner (AP) competencies, to enable them to be able to offer HIV point of care testing (POCT) for HIV, syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections.
* Although this post will be predominately focusing on delivering services in South Essex the post holder will also be expected to support the wider service with delivery across the wider Essex county therefore the post holder must have their own car and a full drivers license to be able to fulfil the requirements of this role.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times:
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks. We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
* To deliver targeted HP/BCC outreach interventions to relevant communities. These include, for example, HIV & STI testing, health promotion including HIV awareness, inter-faith/faith-based work, GP engagement, campaign delivery/ social marketing in line with the delivery of regional and national HIV prevention programmes.
* To work closely with people from seldom heard from communities, tailoring the approach to meet the needs of the groups and individuals you are supporting.
* Increasing professional and public awareness and knowledge of key sexual health topics by delivering professionals training days and community education sessions (both virtually and face to face) with a sex-positive approach.
* To achieve competencies to become an Assistant Practitioner (AP) enabling the post holder to offer HIV/Syphilis point of care testing (POCT), alongside other testing in a community setting adhering to local safeguarding procedures, information governance and other relevant policies.
* To support educational establishments, parent and carers, and other professionals that work with young people in the delivery of RSHE.
* To work directly with young people who may be at risk of harm or sexual ill health through ESHS 1-2-1 education and early intervention programme.
* To maintain and use systems to monitor and record HP/BCC interventions, ensuring high quality of data entry on clinical and client service databases.
* To establish and maintain relationships of trust with partner agencies, and to professionally represent ESHS with target populations and partner agencies.
* Use a wide range of methods to engage diverse communities including social media, radio, TV, attending community events and groups, and visiting commercial and community venues.
* Increase awareness of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), distributing self-testing kits for STIs where possible.
* To manage resource availability and suitability to ensure HP/BCC interventions can be delivered throughout the team.
* To support in the recruitment and delivery of the volunteer ‘Champions for Change’ health champions model.
* To work in partnership with the co-production and user involvement team to ensure gaining insight from local people.
* To manage own workload, maintaining and updating calendars, annual leave records.
* Taking an active and continued responsibility for self-led education relevant to the role.
* To assist with campaigns and events such as World AIDS Day, National HIV Testing Week, Sexual Health Week, LGBT+ History Month, Pride, Black History Month and other promotions and events.
* To deliver a condom distribution service aimed at increasing access to condoms and lubricant to Seldom heard from communities.
* Working flexibly to meet the ever developing needs of the service and its service users across a wide geographical location.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
* Clean driving licence & access to a car with the ability to travel across the county.
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
* Hold a relevant Health Promotion Qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of delivering and evaluating health promotion interventions to communities that experience health inequalities.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of delivering education / training packages to professionals and/or community groups.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to communicate at different levels, build & manage relationships with a range of stakeholders.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Ability to manage and prioritise own workload and communicate to support/gain support from a wider team.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Computer literacy in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint and database entry skills.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Good standards of accuracy, numeracy and literacy; ability to input data onto clinical and client databases.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* An understanding and a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
* Knowledgeable about HIV prevention, sexual health, contraception and other health needs of communities at risk of poor sexual health and HIV in the UK.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
How will we contact you?
* All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging.
* As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview.
* If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
* If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
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Anti Fraud
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Disability
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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant:
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
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