Adult Health Promotion Project Lead
CompanyProvide Community
Location
Colchester, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At6/19/2026
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Description
Main area Primary Care Grade 37, 780 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 35 hours per week Job ref 828-PROVIDE4126
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Colchester or Chelmsford Town Colchester Salary £37,780 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/07/2026 23:59
Job Overview
We are looking for a Adult Health Promotion Lead who will drive the design and delivery of effective health promotion (HP) and behaviour change communication (BCC) interventions for adults across Essex. This role focuses on the needs of seldom-heard communities at increased risk of poor sexual health outcomes, including people of African or Caribbean heritage, sex workers, and gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM).
Main duties of the job
You will lead a team of Adult Health Promotion Specialists to deliver community engagement and to tackle HIV-related stigma and discrimination while delivering targeted interventions. These initiatives will raise HIV awareness, increase testing, highlight the benefits of early diagnosis, and boost the uptake of broader sexual health services. You will also collaborate with the Youth Health Promotion Project Lead to support interventions for young people.
As a representative of Provide, you will engage directly with local communities and network with professionals, organisations, and stakeholders. Additionally, you will assist the Service Lead with managerial duties, including line management, reporting, and providing service cover during absences.
The post holder must have their own car and a full driver’s licence to be able to fulfil the requirements of this role. This role will require the successful applicant to undergo a DBS check.
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:
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Colchester or Chelmsford Town Colchester Salary £37,780 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/07/2026 23:59
Job Overview
We are looking for a Adult Health Promotion Lead who will drive the design and delivery of effective health promotion (HP) and behaviour change communication (BCC) interventions for adults across Essex. This role focuses on the needs of seldom-heard communities at increased risk of poor sexual health outcomes, including people of African or Caribbean heritage, sex workers, and gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM).
Main duties of the job
You will lead a team of Adult Health Promotion Specialists to deliver community engagement and to tackle HIV-related stigma and discrimination while delivering targeted interventions. These initiatives will raise HIV awareness, increase testing, highlight the benefits of early diagnosis, and boost the uptake of broader sexual health services. You will also collaborate with the Youth Health Promotion Project Lead to support interventions for young people.
As a representative of Provide, you will engage directly with local communities and network with professionals, organisations, and stakeholders. Additionally, you will assist the Service Lead with managerial duties, including line management, reporting, and providing service cover during absences.
The post holder must have their own car and a full driver’s licence to be able to fulfil the requirements of this role. This role will require the successful applicant to undergo a DBS check.
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 the job description for a full list of the main responsibilities for this role. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
How will we contact you?
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 the job description for a full list of the main responsibilities for this role. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- A relevant qualification or substantial experience working in health promotion or supporting people experiencing health inequalities
- Experience of delivering and evaluating health promotion interventions to communities that experience health inequalities including young people
- Knowledgeable about HIV prevention, sexual health, contraception and other health needs of communities at risk of poor sexual health and HIV in the UK
- Experience of managing staff including undertaking staff supervisions and appraisals
- Computer literacy in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint and database entry skills
Essential criteria
- A commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
- Own car, clean driving license and ability to travel within the region
- Ability to work on evenings and weekends to support the needs of the service
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.
To check progress on your application, please log into your TRAC account. We aim to keep you updated on the status of your application as soon as we can.
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.
Anti Fraud
Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.
Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
Work Trials
Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.
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.
Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
Work Trials
Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.
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.