Health Promotion Project Lead in Bury St Edmunds

Main area Health promotion Grade £37,780 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working
• Home or remote working

35 hours per week (Expected to working flexibly to meet the needs of the service - evenings and weekends.) Job ref 828-PROVIDE4326

Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Suffolk Town Suffolk Salary £35,001 - £45,000 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

The post holder will take a lead role in the design and delivery of effective health promotion (HP) and behaviour change interventions to both young people and the adult population across Suffolk.

The post holder will lead the health promotion of under-served and marginalised communities namely; People of African/Caribbean Heritage, Commercial Sex Workers (CSW), Men who have sex with men (MSM) and other groups at increased risk of poor sexual health outcomes. Delivery will be through community engagement approaches that tackle HIV/STI related stigma and discrimination. Delivering targeted interventions that increase knowledge and awareness of STIs including HIV, increase STI and HIV testing and highlight the benefits of early diagnosis, access to care treatment and increase the uptake of broader sexual health services across Suffolk.

The post holder will also lead the team delivering a comprehensive training offer to support professionals working with under-served groups, and those providing support to young people across Suffolk. This will include the delivery of relationships, sex and health education to educational staff, as well as educational sessions delivered directly to young people.

The role will require working closely with other professionals, organisations and stakeholders, as well as directly with local communities, to meet the needs of key target groups most at risk of poor sexual health and HIV outcomes

Main duties of the job

The post holder will take a lead role in the design and delivery of effective health promotion (HP) and behaviour change interventions to both young people and the adult population across Suffolk.

The post holder will lead the health promotion of under-served and marginalised communities namely; People of African/Caribbean Heritage, Commercial Sex Workers (CSW), Men who have sex with men (MSM) and other groups at increased risk of poor sexual health outcomes. Delivery will be through community engagement approaches that tackle HIV/STI related stigma and discrimination. Delivering targeted interventions that increase knowledge and awareness of STIs including HIV, increase STI and HIV testing and highlight the benefits of early diagnosis, access to care treatment and increase the uptake of broader sexual health services across Suffolk.

The post holder will also lead the team delivering a comprehensive training offer to support professionals working with under-served groups, and those providing support to young people across Suffolk. This will include the delivery of relationships, sex and health education to educational staff, as well as educational sessions delivered directly to young people.

The role will require working closely with other professionals, organisations and stakeholders, as well as directly with local communities, to meet the needs of key target groups most at risk of poor sexual health and HIV outcomes

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 attached 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

Circumstances

• Clean driving licence & access to a car with the ability to travel, with required resources e.g. certain equipment when needed - across the county, working flexibly including working out of hours (evenings and weekends) when required
• Experience of delivering and evaluating health promotion interventions to communities that experience health inequalities Experience of delivering education / training packages to professionals and/or community groups
• Hold a relevant Health Promotion Qualification or substantial experience in a Health Promotion Role
• Experience of managing staff including undertaking staff supervisions and appraisals.
• Experience of delivering education / training packages to professionals and/or community groups
• Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to communicate at different levels, build & manage relationships with a range of stakeholders
• Good standards of accuracy, numeracy and literacy; ability to produce reports and other documents on time and to an excellent standard
• Ability to manage and prioritise own workload and communicate to support/gain support from a wider team
• Knowledgeable about HIV prevention, sexual health, contraception and other health needs of communities at risk of poor sexual health and HIV in the UK
• A good level of knowledge about key national and local sexual health and HIV issues
• A good understanding of relationships, sex and health education (RSHE)
• 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
• Candidates will be ask to complete a task at interview to demonstrate application of skills.
• 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 Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

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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.

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.

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.

SuccessfulApplicant:

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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