Job summary
Brandon Centre, on behalf of the Camden & Islington Network (CAMISH Network) is looking for an innovative and experienced outreach worker for this new project.
The aim of this project role is to enable us to trial innovative and effective ways of delivering services to young people who are at greatest risk of poor sexual health. In particular, we will specifically aim to target those young people, aged under 25, currently under-represented in our services, namely: men, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities and people from BAME backgrounds.
Based at Brandon Centre, 26 Prince of Wales Road, NW5 9LG and working as an outreach worker within identified and agreed commercial, sports and community venues and events across defined areas of Camden and Islington. This post is likely to commence working virtually due to Covid-19 pandemic with the aim of starting to deliver services face to face as soon as possible.
Main duties of the job
This role will be accompanied by a digital outreach service, managed by Brook, to ensure we get information out to young people who need our specialist services. The digital presence will reach young people via the digital spaces they occupy (Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, Houseparty, Grindr, Tinder etc), letting them know how to contact organisations within the CAMISH network; as well as signposting to other grassroots community organisations that are active in the local areas, ensuring resources are available that they can access.
The successful candidate will work within our CAMISH sexual health outreach provision and will engage with C-card, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), professionals trainings, with focus on the targeted groups and will have opportunities to promote this Inclusivity Project.
This is a collaborative project within the CAMISH Network working with organisations that have similar concerns regarding the impact of young people not accessing services.
About us
The principal objective of Brandon Centre is to provide a professional, accessible, and flexible service which responds to the psychological, medical, sexual and social needs of young people under 25 years and their families.
The services we provide are:
- Mental Health Services including individual Counselling & Psychotherapy for young people, Systemic Integrative Treatment for families using a range of evidence-based therapies and therapeutic work and therapeutic outreach work in community settings.
- Sexual Health Services including contraception, drop in and outreach sessions.
- Clinical Training and Consultancy including healthy living, parent programmes and other group work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Improving the sexual health & wellbeing of young men, LGBTQ+, those with disabilities, individuals from BAME backgrounds and isolated young people. This project is focussing on developing proactive and effective outreach services across the Camden and Islington Young People's Sexual Health Network (CAMISH) for young people who do not traditionally access mainstream services.
Identify young people under the age of 25 years from key hard to reach target groups, which include: young men; LGBTQI+; BAME; disabled young people and isolated young people.
Distributing information and resources to individuals within different environments compared with traditional health settings (commercial/sports venues, events etc.)
Promoting and recruiting young people for STI / HIV POCT testing in particular, men who have sex with men (MSM).
Promotions of the C-Card scheme and Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea testing to young people within this inclusivity project pilot group.
Engaging with professionals working with young people within this target group to promote the service.
Recording and reporting of activity and results.
Please see attached Job Description for more details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Improving the sexual health & wellbeing of young men, LGBTQ+, those with disabilities, individuals from BAME backgrounds and isolated young people. This project is focussing on developing proactive and effective outreach services across the Camden and Islington Young People's Sexual Health Network (CAMISH) for young people who do not traditionally access mainstream services.
Identify young people under the age of 25 years from key hard to reach target groups, which include: young men; LGBTQI+; BAME; disabled young people and isolated young people.
Distributing information and resources to individuals within different environments compared with traditional health settings (commercial/sports venues, events etc.)
Promoting and recruiting young people for STI / HIV POCT testing in particular, men who have sex with men (MSM).
Promotions of the C-Card scheme and Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea testing to young people within this inclusivity project pilot group.
Engaging with professionals working with young people within this target group to promote the service.
Recording and reporting of activity and results.
Please see attached Job Description for more details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Sound GCSE level education (5 GCSEs) and experience in working in outreach Sexual Health and/or outreach / youth services.
- Essential to have a good knowledge of spoken and written English.
Desirable
- Previous sexual health training.
- Knowledge of one or more language(s) used by local young men across Camden / Islington.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of engaging and motivating young people under 25 years in a paid / voluntary capacity, particularly around sexual health.
- Understand confidentiality, information governance, data protection, child protection, and safeguarding and how it relates to this specific role.
- Understand basic sexual health information e.g. key STI and contraceptive options and be willing to develop learning.
- Experience of being active in a team or group experience of working with young men, LGBTQ+, disabled groups, BAME and isolated young people who do not traditionally access traditional health services.
Desirable
- Understand the issues that might impact the sexual health and wellbeing of young people living in Camden and Islington.
- Experience of engaging young people through social media.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of current issues relating to Sexual Health / HIV across London.
- Understand about the key issues that young men, LGBTQ+, disabled groups, BAM and isolated young people face day to day and what is healthy and unhealthy.
- Understand and gain the necessary knowledge at speed about local young men and their diverse communities.
- Understand about the range of health and health services needs of young men , LGBTQ+, disabled groups, BAME and isolated young people within the cohorts identified.
- Know own limits of skills, competences and responsibilities and work within them.
- Good communication skills, including being able to talk to people face to face, by themselves or in a group.
- Able to effectively communicate sensitive and complex information to a number of audiences
- Ability to record information in clear accurate English.
- Be good at listening to people and able to get on with different kinds of people.
- Understand, respect, and maintain confidentiality.
- Understand and work within appropriate boundaries.
- Be respectful and value people regardless of background.
- Proactively committed to equality and able to integrate that commitment into this role
- Able to deal tactfully and diplomatically with a wide range of people, when discussing sensitive issues.
- Be able to learn from your own experiences.
- Able to identify risks and follow procedures.
- Be willing to submit to a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check, if applicable.
- Ability to work with a range of professionals
Other requirements
Essential
- Able to creatively portray the same information in new and interesting ways.
- Able and willing to work as part of a team and independently.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Sound GCSE level education (5 GCSEs) and experience in working in outreach Sexual Health and/or outreach / youth services.
- Essential to have a good knowledge of spoken and written English.
Desirable
- Previous sexual health training.
- Knowledge of one or more language(s) used by local young men across Camden / Islington.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of engaging and motivating young people under 25 years in a paid / voluntary capacity, particularly around sexual health.
- Understand confidentiality, information governance, data protection, child protection, and safeguarding and how it relates to this specific role.
- Understand basic sexual health information e.g. key STI and contraceptive options and be willing to develop learning.
- Experience of being active in a team or group experience of working with young men, LGBTQ+, disabled groups, BAME and isolated young people who do not traditionally access traditional health services.
Desirable
- Understand the issues that might impact the sexual health and wellbeing of young people living in Camden and Islington.
- Experience of engaging young people through social media.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of current issues relating to Sexual Health / HIV across London.
- Understand about the key issues that young men, LGBTQ+, disabled groups, BAM and isolated young people face day to day and what is healthy and unhealthy.
- Understand and gain the necessary knowledge at speed about local young men and their diverse communities.
- Understand about the range of health and health services needs of young men , LGBTQ+, disabled groups, BAME and isolated young people within the cohorts identified.
- Know own limits of skills, competences and responsibilities and work within them.
- Good communication skills, including being able to talk to people face to face, by themselves or in a group.
- Able to effectively communicate sensitive and complex information to a number of audiences
- Ability to record information in clear accurate English.
- Be good at listening to people and able to get on with different kinds of people.
- Understand, respect, and maintain confidentiality.
- Understand and work within appropriate boundaries.
- Be respectful and value people regardless of background.
- Proactively committed to equality and able to integrate that commitment into this role
- Able to deal tactfully and diplomatically with a wide range of people, when discussing sensitive issues.
- Be able to learn from your own experiences.
- Able to identify risks and follow procedures.
- Be willing to submit to a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check, if applicable.
- Ability to work with a range of professionals
Other requirements
Essential
- Able to creatively portray the same information in new and interesting ways.
- Able and willing to work as part of a team and independently.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
