Job summary
- Main area
- Health Promotion - Sexual Health
- Grade
- 32,807
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Job share - 21 hours per week (May require evening and weekend to meet the needs of the service)
- Job ref
- 828-PROVIDE4215
- Employer
- Provide CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Provide Community
- Town
- Harlow
- Salary
- £32,807 per annum FTE (19,684)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/08/2026 08:00
Employer heading
Health Promotion Specialist - Youth Focused (Youth Essex)
32,807
Job overview
Essex Sexual Health Service (ESHS) is the sexual health provider in Essex, led by Provide Community and commissioned by Essex County Council.
The post holder will work as part of the outreach and education team, with a focus on the delivery of relationship, sex and health education. This includes the delivery of education directly to young people through tailored support and small group work as well as training to upskill educational staff and other professionals supporting young people.
ESHS encourage applications from those with backgrounds in teaching, youth work, or working with people from seldom heard from communities.
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 young people and other groups at increased risk of poor sexual health outcomes.
The post holder will work closely with educational establishments to directly deliver relationship and sexual health education (RSHE), parent sessions, and educator training in both primary and secondary settings.
Delivery will also involve community engagement approaches that tackle health inequalities including HIV related stigma and discrimination. Delivering targeted interventions that increase knowledge and awareness of sexual health issues including sexual health testing, consent, confidentiality, LGBTQ+ inclusivity, whilst also increasing access to eC-Card and access to care treatment and the uptake of broader sexual health services across Essex.
Although this post will be predominately focusing on delivery in West Essex, the post holder will be expected to support the wider service with delivery across Essex therefore the post holder must have their own car and a full driver’s 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.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
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
Please see attached job description for a full list of a main list of the main responsibilities for this role. Thank you for taking the time for applying for a role within Provide.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Clean driving licence & access to a car with the ability to travel, with required resources, across the county, working flexibly including working out of hours (evenings and weekends) when required
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- To hold a relevant teaching qualification, or accredited RSHE qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering education / training packages to professionals and/or community groups. To have a good understanding of the challenges that young people may face growing up, and how to talk to young people in an age-appropriate way.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to communicate at a range of different levels, build & manage relationships with a range of stakeholders 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
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An understanding and a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience working directly with young people on a 1:1 basis
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
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- A good level of knowledge about key national and local sexual health and HIV issues.
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering and evaluating health promotion interventions to communities that experience health inequalities including young people
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- To have a good understanding of the local area
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sophie Milner
- Job title
- ESHS - Outreach and Education Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07874398769
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