Northamptonshire Integrated Sexual Health and HIV (NISHH) Service, requires an Outreach Support Worker to join our friendly and dynamic team to provide and maintain high standards of patient care. The Sexual Health Outreach Team plays a vital role in the education, support and safer sex promotion around sexual health and basic contraception to young people, vulnerable and/or at-risk groups across Northamptonshire.
The post-holder is responsible for providing information, education, STI and pregnancy testing in the community, alongside clinical colleagues in sexual health clinics and key community partner agencies across South Northamptonshire.
The successful candidate will provide education tackling a range of safer sex topics using sensitive information, which requires an enthusiastic and strong communicator with the ability to be both non-judgmental and discreet.

A key focus of this role is promoting and delivering both the Chlamydia Screening Programme (CSP) and C-Card Service, as well training partners to expand service access. The post-holder will need to demonstrate flexibility as they may be presenting a school assembly one day and be holding a drop-in for vulnerable adults the next.

• Proactive engagement with young people, vulnerable and/or at-risk groups.
• Building and sustaining good links with key statutory and community partners.
• Providing information and education of sexual health and basic contraception through sex education talks, staff training sessions, drop-ins, 1:1 support, events and online promotion and campaigns.
• Enable wider access to sexual health services through support, guidance, signposting and referral.
• Promotion & delivery of CSP and C-Card Service involving provision of condoms, STI testing and pregnancy testing.
• Use of online and social media platforms.
• Accurate record keeping and assisting in service monitoring and evaluation.
• Administrative duties, including dealing with postal kit and condom orders and stock management.
• Personal Support and Development.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

• Proactive engagement with young people, vulnerable and/or at-risk groups.
• Building and sustaining good links with key statutory and community partners.
• Providing information and education of sexual health and basic contraception through sex education talks, staff training sessions, drop-ins, 1:1 support, events and online promotion and campaigns.
• Enable wider access to sexual health services through support, guidance, signposting and referral.
• Promotion & delivery of CSP and C-Card Service involving provision of condoms, STI testing and pregnancy testing.
• Use of online and social media platforms.
• Accurate record keeping and assisting in service monitoring and evaluation.
• Administrative duties, including dealing with postal kit and condom orders and stock management.
• Personal Support and Development