Main area Sexual Health Grade Salary Ranges: 25,001 - 35,000 Contract Permanent Hours Full time Job ref 828-PROVIDE3451
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Provide Community Town Colchester Salary £27,919 WTE Salary period Yearly Closing 31/03/2025 23:59
Job Overview
Essex Sexual Health Service (ESHS) are looking for an experienced Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) coordinator to oversee the development, implementation and monitoring of RSHE delivered by the service, supporting both young people and education staff across Essex in the delivery of age and stage appropriate education on relationships, sexual health and wellbeing.
Main duties of the job
* To design, deliver and implement a comprehensive age and stage appropriate RSHE curriculum that aligns with national guidance and in line with Provides RHSE policy, to be delivered in mainstream educational settings, special schools, PRUs and community settings.
* To design, deliver and implement training to educational staff and other professionals to equip them to confidently deliver inclusive RSHE.
* To lead on ESHS RSHE Recognition Award Scheme, supporting educational establishments across Essex to adopt a whole school approach to RSHE and receive recognition for their commitment to RSHE.
* To lead on ESHS live broadcasting facility, widening the reach of RSHE across Essex.
* To regularly monitor and evaluate teaching resources, reviewing feedback from sessions to ensure packages are inclusive to all learners including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and those where English is an additional language (ESOL).
* To provide coach and mentor wider team members in relation to RSHE, observing lessons to assess quality and promote best practice.
* To deliver in-house training and source additional learning opportunities for the wider team members in relation to RSHE to ensure CPD for the team.
* Liaise with educational establishments, parents and carers and other external agencies to inform them about RSHE, receive feedback, and address any concerns or misconceptions.
* To coordinate active engagement with young people, educational staff and other stakeholders and service users to gather feedback, influence service development and ensure that their perspectives are integrated into the decision-making process.
* To proactively explore new and innovative ways to effectively engage with young people and deliver RSHE that meets their needs.
* 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, supporting them to increase their knowledge and skills to make informed decisions.
* To maintain and use systems to monitor and record HP/BCC interventions, ensuring high quality of data entry on clinical and client service databases and to accurately contribute data for reporting as requested for service monitoring reports.
* To establish and maintain relationships of trust with partner agencies, and to professionally represent ESHS with target populations and partner agencies both at meetings with key providers and during HP/BCC interventions adhering to ESHS values and policies.
* 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, and public sex environments.
* To manage own workload, maintaining and updating calendars, annual leave records, and to notify line manager of any change in personal circumstances or personal information relevant to the role.
* Taking an active and continued responsibility for self-led education relevant to the role. This includes maintaining awareness of local and national campaigns and statistics related to sexual health and HIV.
* Working flexibly to meet the ever-developing needs of the service and its service users across a wide geographical location. This includes flexibility to work evenings and weekends as required.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
* To hold a relevant teaching qualification.
Work Related Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
* To have a track record in designing and implementing RSHE in line with the national curriculum within an educational setting.
* To have solid knowledge of RSHE subjects.
Desirable criteria
* Experience working directly with young people on a 1-2-1 basis.
* Experience of working with young people with SEND or ESOL.
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential criteria
* To have the ability to create safe and inclusive learning environments to safely deliver sensitive topics such as relationships, sexuality, consent and personal safety.
* Confidence in managing challenging conversations and addressing concerns from pupils, educational staff or parents and carers.
* Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to communicate at different levels, build & manage relationships with a range of stakeholders and young people.
* Ability to manage and prioritise own workload and communicate to support/gain support from a wider team.
* Computer literacy in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint and database entry skills.
* Good standards of accuracy, numeracy and literacy; ability to input data onto clinical and client databases.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential criteria
* An understanding and a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
* Clean driving licence & access to a car with the ability to travel, with required resources e.g. certain equipment when needed - across the county, working flexibly including working out of hours (evenings and weekends) when required.
Desirable criteria
* Have a good understanding of the local area.
Further Information
How will we contact you?
* All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
* 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. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
* 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. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
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
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination. We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
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Disability
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Work Trials
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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. The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
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