Job summary
Are you passionate about improving sexual health outcomes and making a difference in underserved communities? Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a dynamic and strategic individual to join our team as the Sexual Health Promotion and Outreach Site Lead.
As the Site Lead, you will coordinate and implement strategic health promotion and outreach programmes across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Your work will align with commissioned services and focus on addressing the sexual health needs of high-risk and underserved populations.
You'll collaborate with key stakeholders including Public Health, GPs, and other sexual health services to:
- Reduce rates of HIV, STIs, and unintended pregnancies
- Increase access to sexual health services
- Support both universal and targeted outreach efforts
This role is pivotal in delivering a fully comprehensive sexual health service across the region. You'll be based atSherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, working across multiple sites in Nottinghamshire and within community settings.
Apply now to join our team and make a difference in health care!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstration of team working and ability to work within a team
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate diploma level or equivalent experience
- Experience in development and or delivery of Public/Sexual Health Strategy
- Post basic study relevant to specialty and relevant qualification
Desirable
- Formal leadership and management training
- Research training/experience
- Train the trainer qualification
Further Training
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development / reflective profile
- Experience of using Microsoft office packages
- Produce timely, accurate written/electronic records and documents
- Demonstrate IT skills
- Able to minimise interpersonal conflict and barriers to communication
- Evidence of negotiation and influencing skills
- Demonstrate self-awareness and understanding of professional accountability
Desirable
- STIF level 1 competency
- Demonstrate evidence of providing formal and informal teaching sessions in a variety of settings
Experience/Skills
Essential
- Experience of delivering health promotion to a diverse range of groups and individuals
- Supervision of staff and students
- Able to convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner and to work as part of a team
- Understanding of health inequalities and the impact upon communities and individuals
- Evidence of ability to manage own workload and to work as part of a team
- Understanding of health inequalities and the impact upon communities and individuals
- Demonstrate an ability to assess, plan, deliver, prioritise and evaluate health promotion activities
- Successful implementation and management of a change process
- Demonstrate insight in the use of data to influence patient care and services
Desirable
- Evidence of experience within the specialty and in leadership/management roles
- Experience of STI screening, including taking blood samples, in asymptomatic individuals
- Demonstrate an involvement in project work
- Audit or research within Sexual Health
- Providing staff with feedback on their individual performance and conduct appraisals
- Evidence of involvement in PPI
- Demonstrate a knowledge of current issues related to the NHS strategy and policy
- Evidence of data collection and analysis
- Ability to use appraisals to support and develop staff
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Must be able to work across various sites across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (encompasses Nottingham City areas, Nottingham County areas, Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood, Worksop and Retford to cover the Bassetlaw population)
- Flexible and adaptable, including ability to work out of core hours
- Enhanced DBS clearance
- Full driving licence with the use of own vehicle and able to travel between locations
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstration of team working and ability to work within a team
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate diploma level or equivalent experience
- Experience in development and or delivery of Public/Sexual Health Strategy
- Post basic study relevant to specialty and relevant qualification
Desirable
- Formal leadership and management training
- Research training/experience
- Train the trainer qualification
Further Training
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development / reflective profile
- Experience of using Microsoft office packages
- Produce timely, accurate written/electronic records and documents
- Demonstrate IT skills
- Able to minimise interpersonal conflict and barriers to communication
- Evidence of negotiation and influencing skills
- Demonstrate self-awareness and understanding of professional accountability
Desirable
- STIF level 1 competency
- Demonstrate evidence of providing formal and informal teaching sessions in a variety of settings
Experience/Skills
Essential
- Experience of delivering health promotion to a diverse range of groups and individuals
- Supervision of staff and students
- Able to convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner and to work as part of a team
- Understanding of health inequalities and the impact upon communities and individuals
- Evidence of ability to manage own workload and to work as part of a team
- Understanding of health inequalities and the impact upon communities and individuals
- Demonstrate an ability to assess, plan, deliver, prioritise and evaluate health promotion activities
- Successful implementation and management of a change process
- Demonstrate insight in the use of data to influence patient care and services
Desirable
- Evidence of experience within the specialty and in leadership/management roles
- Experience of STI screening, including taking blood samples, in asymptomatic individuals
- Demonstrate an involvement in project work
- Audit or research within Sexual Health
- Providing staff with feedback on their individual performance and conduct appraisals
- Evidence of involvement in PPI
- Demonstrate a knowledge of current issues related to the NHS strategy and policy
- Evidence of data collection and analysis
- Ability to use appraisals to support and develop staff
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Must be able to work across various sites across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (encompasses Nottingham City areas, Nottingham County areas, Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood, Worksop and Retford to cover the Bassetlaw population)
- Flexible and adaptable, including ability to work out of core hours
- Enhanced DBS clearance
- Full driving licence with the use of own vehicle and able to travel between locations
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.
