Sexual Health Support Worker

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.

This is a part-time (24 hours per week) fixed-term position until April 2025.
Package DescriptionYou 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: 

£22,000 - £23,500 salary with group pension 
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 
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location

Main Responsibilities
Follow all policies and protocols pertaining to the role, reporting any concerns or issues to the Nurse Manager.
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.  
Offer advice and education to patients regarding safe sex practices and offer information regarding further help and advice.
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 well-being, emotional, physical, sexual, mental and social needs are met in accordance with the IMB Framework. 
Work within the service's internal pathways to refer clients to the appropriate professional team member or external service. 

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
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 

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
About The CompanyWe 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.

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To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2