Health Promotion Specialist - Youth Focused (Youth Essex)

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

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
  
  

FURTHER INFORMATION:

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.
  
  

Checking progress on your application?

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.