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Health Promotion Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area Sexual Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (until August 2026) Hours
* Part time
* Flexible working
22.5 hours per week Job ref 333-D-SH-0401
Site Archway Centre Town London Salary £44,806 - £53,134 per annum pro rata inc HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 04/05/2025 23:59 Interview date 20/05/2025
Job overview
Are you passionate about reducing health inequalities and reaching those most at risk? Join our dynamic CLASH/SHOC team as a Health Promotion Specialist, working directly with vulnerable and often hard-to-reach individuals across Camden, Islington, and Haringey.
About the Role:
We’re looking for someone with current, hands-on experience in a Health Promotion setting, who can confidently engage individuals from a wide range of communities. This role requires a flexible, proactive, and empathetic approach to support people in improving their sexual and reproductive health.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
Outreach and Engagement:
* Identify and work with at-risk individuals, including:
* Commercial sex workers
* Homeless individuals
* People who use drugs
* LGBTQI+/Men who have sex with men (MSM)
* Black African/Black Caribbean and other Ethnic Minority communities
Settings may include:
Flats, saunas, hostels, drug & alcohol services, sex-on-premises venues, leisure centres, barbershops, hair salons, places of faith, community events, and more.
Client Support:
* Deliver sexual health and HIV prevention support using motivational interviewing and other techniques.
* Assist clients in navigating clinical pathways and accessing Pan-London services.
* Promote informed health choices and behaviour change.
Clinical Tasks:
Perform asymptomatic screening, including venepuncture and quick check testing.
Training and Advocacy:
Deliver sessions to professionals and community staff to enhance awareness and service reach.
Requirements:
* Substantial, demonstrable experience in face-to-face client work within a health promotion setting.
* Confidence working with diverse and marginalised populations.
* Excellent communication skills and cultural awareness.
* Flexibility to work evenings and weekends as required.
* Ability to travel across Camden, Islington, and Haringey
If you're committed to making a real impact in people’s lives and improving access to essential services, we’d love to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
CNWL are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing. Together we look at ways of improving an individual’s quality of life, through high quality healthcare and personal support.
Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.
Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.
Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles.We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.
Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.
The job role will include:
Working with vulnerable clients
· Identifying and engaging with individuals from target groups in our Health Promotion contract
· To attend agreed settings and venues to work with at risk groups identified by the service, which includes but is not exclusive to: Commercial sex workers, Homeless Clients, Drug Users, Men who have sex with men, and Black and Ethnic Minority communities
· Supporting individuals in learning how to make better health choices and supporting them in initiating and sustaining appropriate behavioural changes
· Work with clients to identify on going communication and engage with them in HIV prevention and other sexual health issues using motivational interviewing skills or other models as agreed by the service
· Contact with clients and assisting patient through their clinic pathway
· Helping people to find and use the right services including Pan London services
· Recording and reporting activity and results
Clinical need
· Asymptomatic screening and Quick check
Training
· Provide training sessions to groups of staff and other professionals
Due to the nature of this role flexibility is required and shift work which includes late evening and weekends are essential.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of experience working with relevant client groups
* Educated to post Degree level in specialism or equivalent level of experience working with relevant client groups
* EducationG.C.S.E/A levels or equivalent qualification and experience
Experience
* Experience of having worked in the NHS, including experience post degree qualification
* Experience of having worked with relevant client groups
* Administering and co-ordinating outreach in a range of settings, including the organisation of different activities, prioritising tasks, monitoring and evaluating
* Delivery of workshops to a variety of users
* Working effectively with different agencies in the community, voluntary or statutory sectors
* Planning, delivering and evaluating training on good sexual health
Skills
* Excellent organisational & prioritising skills
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with range of individuals, including hard to reach client groups namely Commercial Sex Workers, Homeless Clients, Drug Users, Men who have sex with men, BMEA communities
* Able to undertake HIV testing/Asymptomatic screening including venepuncture and point of care testing.
Knowledge
* Sound knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of good sexual health and the barriers to these client groups accessing services
* Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance relating the client groups targeted
* Sound knowledge and understanding of STIs, HIV, contraception, and access to sexual health services
Abilities
* Ability to innovate and develop creative outreach activities
* Ability to support others and respond to their needs
* Able to manage competing priorities with confidence and working to tight deadlines
* Excellent attention to detail skills and able to produce high quality and accurate work
* Communicates and networks effectively. Successfully persuades and influences others. Relates to others in a confident and relaxed manner.
* Ability to work effectively as part of a team or by using on own initiative
* Ability to deliver on agreed objectives
* Ability to be flexible and respond to changing demands
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
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