Outreach Engagement Support Worker

Job summary

Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.

We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.

Locala is a Disability Confident employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process.

Outreach Engagement Support Worker

Band 5: £28,407 - £34,581

37.5 hours per week

Permanent

Exciting Opportunity!!

Locala are looking to recruit a specialist Outreach Engagement Worker to support the Tameside and Stockport Sexual Health Service.

The postholder will primarily be based in Tameside but will work closely with colleagues in Stockport and be required to cross work when needed.

Locala Sexual Health prides itself on the extensive outreach and prevention provision, which is continuously growing.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be required alongside colleagues both in the clinical hub and outreach element to identify new populations in need and/or new opportunities for growth.

The postholder will support vulnerable populations and communities to access sexual health education, STI screening, treatment, and contraception.

The postholder will target those most at risk of poor sexual health by understanding the demographics of the area and will support the clinical outreach colleagues in delivering in the community.

The populations may include; those involved in the sex industry, men who have sex with men (MSM), LGBT communities, refugee, and asylum seekers, those affected by substance misuse, mental health, and domestic abuse, looked after children, those identified with a learning disability, children and young people accessing alternative provision or those not in education or employment.

The postholder:

• Will be required to co deliver with partner agencies in the community where appropriate, build and maintain positive working relationships with key partners and be expected to work independently on a 1-1 basis or group. Relationship building with partners and service users is paramount in the successful delivery.
• Will be required to travel on a regular basis to and from community settings within the district.

About us

• Is required to be confident in delivering positive key health messages to individuals and groups of young people/ adults and will identify where additional interventions or referrals are required.
• Is required to have experience of working with marginalised groups and will have a high level of experience and knowledge of safeguarding pathways.

If you are a well-motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced individual and would like this opportunity to support vulnerable and marginalised populations to access sexual health services and would like a discussion about this role please contact Keeley Gibbs or Helen Ibbotson on:

keeley.gibbs@locala.org.uk

helen.ibbotson@locala.org.uk

Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy:

• Flexible working-We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
• Generous pension We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
• Development opportunities We have a nursing framework and offer a range of development opportunities in all roles.

Here at Locala we are part of the community and have often cared for generations within the same family and continue to be part of the NHS family also delivering care under the same ethos.

Be part of an organisation doing things differently. One that delivers CQC-rated Good NHS healthcare services, as well as having a positive social impact in local communities.