Overview
As a Sexual Health Community Engagement and Partnership Worker, you will play a key role in developing and strengthening partnerships to support the strategic delivery of sexual health services and ensure the needs of the local community are met. Working closely with the Strategic Lead, you will help build effective partnerships and engagement across Leicestershire and Rutland, particularly supporting vulnerable communities. You will also take ownership of implementing and managing the Condom Distribution Scheme (Condoms Now) while working collaboratively with statutory and voluntary organisations that promote positive and healthy lifestyles. This role is vital in supporting the strategic vision of the Leicestershire & Rutland Sexual Health Hub and would suit someone who is motivated, enthusiastic, and passionate about improving community sexual health. If you have the passion and drive to make a real difference in this exciting role, we would love to hear from you.
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK\'s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We\'re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We\'re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
Safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Responsibilities
* Developing, co-ordinating and monitoring projects developed in the non-clinical aspects of the sexual health contract
* Be the single point of contact for support for all Condom Distribution Partners
* Establishing a directory of partner agencies and organisations
* Supporting the Practice Educator with non-clinical network delivery
* Work closely with the partner agencies and the Service Manager / Strategic Lead to ensure all aspects to the non-clinical delivery have appropriate support plans and the appropriate competencies / resources in place for ongoing delivery
* Support the Service Manager / Strategic Lead and Practice Educator with the administration in developing clear pathways and referral processes across Primary Care, Secondary Care, and other partners.
* Supporting the Service Manager / Strategic Lead in budget planning and being part of the development of short- and long-range budgetary forecasts.
* Data collation in respect of non-clinical activity to generate invoices, financial reports including cost and price analysis
* Participating in and/or leading cost reduction initiatives, improvement events, and other improvement initiatives
* Managing partner agencies communication and queries and resolve issues where appropriate
* Responsible for conducting initiatives to gain patient satisfaction & feedback, partner agency feedback and generate this into quarterly report.
* Do you hold a non-registered nursing qualification or have a background in healthcare? Are you looking for a dynamic role where you can broaden your skills while promoting sexual health within the community? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!
Qualifications
* Educated to undergraduate level or equivalent experience and training.
* Ability to demonstrate good knowledge and understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
* Ability to develop strong collaborative relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
* Ability to manipulate, analyse and interpret data effectively
* Strong organisational skills
* Excellent problem-solving skills
* Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
* Possesses intermediate skills in Word, PowerPoint and Excel
* Able to prioritise and work autonomously to manage own workload
* Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
* Attention to detail.
* Ability to work on own initiative
* While not essential having the below is desirable:
o Project management.
o Degree as a nursing associate/healthcare degree
o Performance/contract management
* Post holder must hold a current UK driving license and have access to a car on a daily basis for transportation to clinic bases, meetings, events both locally and nationally.
Benefits
* A salary of £26,712.00-£29,494.50 dependent on experience with access to our group pension
* Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life\'s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our \'Outstanding\' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture where you\'re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
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