Overview
Sexual Health Support Worker – Oldham Integrated Care Centre, New Radcliffe St, Oldham
Job Introduction
The purpose of this role is to work as a support worker as part of the Meeting Your Needs Oldham outreach service. In collaboration with specialist organisations Early Break and The Proud Trust, we provide an integrated substance misuse and sexual health service in Oldham, known as MYNO. Our services are available to young people aged 13-19, adults with special educational needs, and looked after children up to the age of 25.
As part of our work, we support the distribution of condoms in community settings across ORBISH (Oldham, Rochdale, and Bury Integrated Sexual Health), with a primary focus on Oldham. We aim to provide non-clinical support to young people in various settings, such as schools, colleges, and youth centre’s. Our goal is to promote and provide accessible services for young people in Oldham who require sexual health support.
The Support worker will provide support at the Integrated Contraception and Sexual Health Service Hub Oldham, and some travel to community locations may be required, therefor having a driving licence and a car is essential for this role. The service runs Monday to Saturday, operating 9-5pm with a late night across each hub. This is a part-time (24 hours per week).
Main Responsibility
You will be responsible for;
- Create an empowering, non-judgmental, positive and welcoming atmosphere for young people, emphasising self-determination and assisting young people to make plans and decisions and to accept responsibility.
- Empower and encourage all young people to access both young people’s support programmes and sexual health services as a whole, with particular emphasis on ‘at risk’ groups as defined by the organisation.
- Assist in the development, delivery and evaluation of training programmes and support other professionals involved with young people to help develop their skills, knowledge and confidence in the effective delivery of Sex and Relationships Education
- Undertake initial consultations with clients including a social and lifestyle history, using the Fraser guidelines and our programme templates: record all interventions in a timely and accurate manner
- Undertake brief interventions during client consultations, promoting a holistic approach that sees the individual’s health and wellbeing, emotional, physical, sexual, mental and social needs are met in accordance with the IMB Framework
- Work within ORBISH internal pathways to refer clients to the appropriate professional team member or external service
- Where appropriate, work within Multi Agency Teams to assist social workers and the Police to fulfil their statutory obligations to children in need of help or protection
- Monitor and evaluate work as required, keeping secure written and statistical records of work undertaken and providing reports as required
Please see job description attached for full list.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have;
- Educated to GCSE level (minimum 5 passes) or equivalent
- Commitment to personal development and further training
- Demonstrable experience of working with groups of vulnerable young people
- Experience of the issues affecting young people, particularly vulnerable or excluded groups
- Ability to communicate effectively with young people, demonstrating an awareness and understanding of the diverse range of issues affecting them
- Excellent communication skills, especially with young people and excluded groups
- Ability to network and build sustainable working partnerships with other agencies and key stakeholders
- Ability to organise own workload and work without direct supervision
- Handling sensitive information and listening to the needs of clients and responding appropriately
Other requirements;
- Committed to working in an anti-oppressive way and striving to create equal opportunities for young people
- Maintains strict confidentiality concerning all HCRG Care Group matters
- Ability to be flexible in terms of working hours, including occasional evening and weekend working
- Holds a current driving licence and has use of own vehicle (work related mileage will be paid if authorised)
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Sexual Health Support Worker working within our Meeting Your Needs Oldham outreach service at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £24,486.00 salary with group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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