Health Promotion Specialist, South Essex (Adult Focused)

Basildon, Essex (On-site)
£27,919 per year
Full-time
Permanent

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Job description

Terrence Higgins Trust have an exciting opportunity for a Health Promotion Specialist to join their team, working as part of the Essex Sexual Health Service.

The post holder will support in the design and delivery of effective health promotion (HP) and behaviour change communication (BCC) interventions appropriate to the needs of Seldom Heard from 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 related stigma and discrimination. Delivering targeted interventions that increase knowledge and awareness of HIV, increase HIV testing and highlight the benefits of early diagnosis, access to care treatment and increase the uptake of broader sexual health services across Essex and Thurrock.

The post holder will be expected to undertake comprehensive training in order to achieve Assistant Practitioner (AP) competencies, to enable them to be able to offer HIV point of care testing (POCT) for HIV, syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections.

The role will also incorporate delivering sexual health promotion services to young people, through delivery of relationship and sexual health education (RSHE), outreach delivery and supporting young people via the 1-2-1 education and early intervention programme.

We will be reviewing & shortlisting applications on a rolling basis and may close the vacancy earlier if recruited to. 

Application resources
Posted by
Terrence Higgins Trust View profile Company size Size: 101 - 500
Posted on: 26 July 2024
Closing date: 11 August 2024 at 09:48
Tags: Training / Learning, Health / Medical, Sexual Health

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