RSHE and Co-production Coordinator in Colchester

Main area Sexual Health Grade 35500 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Approximately (Maternity Cover)) Hours Full time - 35 hours per week (Some evenings and weekend to meet the needs of the service) Job ref 828-PROVIDE4270 Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Provide Community Town Colchester Salary £35,000 35500 Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59

Job Overview

Essex Sexual Health Service (ESHS) are looking for an experienced Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) coordinator to oversee the development, implementation and monitoring of RSHE delivered by the service, supporting both young people and education staff across Essex in the delivery of age and stage appropriate education on relationships, sexual health and wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

The role will have a strong focus on youth engagement and participation, ensuring that content is both in line with daily challenges faced by young people, whilst also working in line with the national curriculum and government guidance. The post holder will also engage with parents and carers and wider stakeholders to support in a holistic approach to relationships and sexual health education.

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.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for a full list of the main responsibilities for this role.

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

• To hold a relevant teaching qualification

Work Related Knowledge & Experience

• To have a track record in designing and implementing RSHE in line with the national curriculum within an educational setting
• To have solid knowledge of RSHE subjects

Desirable criteria

• Experience working directly with young people on a 1-2-1 basis
• Experience of working with young people with SEND or ESOL

Skills & Aptitudes

• To have the ability to create safe and inclusive learning environments to safely deliver sensitive topics such as relationships, sexuality, consent and personal safety
• Confidence in managing challenging conversations and addressing concerns from pupils, educational staff or parents and carers
• Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to communicate at different levels, build & manage relationships with a range of stakeholders and young people
• 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

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• An understanding and a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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

Desirable criteria

• 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.

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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.