Job summary
- Main area
- Education & Training
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent: Term Time Only
- Hours
- Part time - 25 hours per week (Term Time Only)
- Job ref
- 847-RM-25-V719
- Employer
- Spectrum Community Health CIC
- Employer type
- Public (Non NHS)
- Site
- Barnsley Sexual Health Services
- Town
- Barnsley
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 per annum pro rota (term time only)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/11/2025
Employer heading
RSE Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
Spectrum Community Health CIC has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic person to join our Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) Team. We seek someone with experience working with young people aged 11-16, interested in developing skills within our evidence-based RSE approach.
The successful candidate will support our RSE Lead by delivering lessons in schools and community settings across Wakefield & Barnsley, including small group work and 1:1 interventions. You'll help prepare resources for our creative, interactive education programmes and have a drive to improve health equality through resilience-promoting messaging.
Our RSE Team uses behaviour change strategies targeting local priorities including: reducing Chlamydia rates in 15-25 year-olds, underage conception, youth substance misuse, and supporting children's emotional health and well-being.
Working hours are flexible within the school day (approximately 8am-3.30pm), negotiated to fit individual school needs.
For further information and enquiries please contact Mark Robinson
[email protected]
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) lessons and interventions that equip young people aged 11-16 with the knowledge and skills needed to experience safe and fulfilling relationships. The post holder will facilitate students learning on how to recognise and manage risk, build resilience, understand healthy and unhealthy behaviours in relationships, and how to access support services when needed. The post holder will work towards reducing health inequality by providing sexual health knowledge and information in an age-appropriate way through a planned curriculum of evidence based RSE lessons. The post holder will work in mainstream and special school provisions in the Wakefield District including education and community settings and work primarily with young people aged 11-16. This post includes the delivery of an established Train the Trainer programme that provides the resources and knowledge professionals need to deliver RSE within their own settings.
Working for our organisation
BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE
Join our team
We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.
Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we’ve got a role for you!
- Access to NHS Pension
- Annual leave on your Birthday
- Welcome payment for some posts
- Refer a friend scheme
- Training and Development opportunities
- Flexible Working
- Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
- Up to 33 days annual leave
We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.
We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people – our patients, service users, staff and partners.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Other areas of work will involve delivering targeted group work and one-to-one interventions and support with lesson resource preparation. The post holder will collate and input the base line data collected from RSE lessons to ensure progress and learning. Successful candidates will have a drive to improve health equality for young people and understand ways of delivering resilience promoting messages.
Person specification
Safeguarding
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent experience including experience of working with young people in a formal or an informal education setting (school/college/youth work)
- Supplemented by relevant specialist health improvement knowledge acquired through training, extended courses and experience to post graduate diploma level or above or equivalent.
- Achieved minimum of Level 2 child protection
Desirable criteria
- Have experience of diverse youth work: different client groups different settings different styles and be able to adapt session materials to these.
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
- Mark Robinson
- Job title
- RSE Co-ordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
If you would like an informal conversation about the role, or following successful shortlisting, observe a lesson please contact Mark Robinson via email to arrange either a conversation or a visit to a school.
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