RSE Support Worker

Spectrum Community Health CIC; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in the United Kingdom is seeking an enthusiastic individual to join their Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) Team. The role involves delivering lessons and interventions for young people aged 11-16 in schools and community settings. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and a passion for improving health equality through education. Working hours are flexible, mainly within the school day. The position offers a salary range of £24,937 to £26,598 pro rata based on term time only.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Annual leave on your Birthday

Training and Development opportunities

Flexible Working

Access to Employee Wellbeing programmes

Qualifications

• Experience in sexual health and working with young people.
• Understanding risk indicators for sexual ill health.
• Post qualification experience in education or youth work.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Relationship and Sex Education lessons and interventions.
• Prepare resources for educational programs.
• Support the RSE Lead in various settings.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Experience with young people

Ability to use ICT tools

Education

Relevant Level 3 Qualifications or substantial relevant experience

NVQ level 3 in Health or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft 365

Zoom

Job description

Spectrum Community Health CIC has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic person to join our Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) Team. We seek someone with experience working with young people aged 11-16, interested in developing skills within our evidence-based RSE approach.

The successful candidate will support our RSE Lead by delivering lessons in schools and community settings across Wakefield & Barnsley, including small group work and 1:1 interventions. You'll help prepare resources for our creative, interactive education programmes and have a drive to improve health equality through resilience-promoting messaging.

Our RSE Team uses behaviour change strategies targeting local priorities including: reducing Chlamydia rates in 15-25 year-olds, underage conception, youth substance misuse, and supporting children's emotional health and well-being.

Working hours are flexible within the school day (approximately 8am-3.30pm), negotiated to fit individual school needs.

For further information and enquiries please contact Mark [e-mail]

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) lessons and interventions that equip young people aged 11-16 with the knowledge and skills needed to experience safe and fulfilling relationships. The post holder will facilitate students learning on how to recognise and manage risk, build resilience, understand healthy and unhealthy behaviours in relationships, and how to access support services when needed. The post holder will work towards reducing health inequality by providing sexual health knowledge and information in an age-appropriate way through a planned curriculum of evidence based RSE lessons. The post holder will work in mainstream and special school provisions in the Wakefield District including education and community settings and work primarily with young people aged 11-16. This post includes the delivery of an established Train the Trainer programme that provides the resources and knowledge professionals need to deliver RSE within their own settings.

About us

BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE

Join our team

We're looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.

Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we've got a role for you!

• Access to NHS Pension
• Annual leave on your Birthday
• Refer a friend scheme
• Training and Development opportunities
• Flexible Working
• Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
• Up to 33 days annual leave

We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.

We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people - our patients, service users, staff and partners.

Job responsibilities

Other areas of work will involve delivering targeted group work and one-to-one interventions and support with lesson resource preparation. The post holder will collate and input the base line data collected from RSE lessons to ensure progress and learning. Successful candidates will have a drive to improve health equality for young people and understand ways of delivering resilience promoting messages.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Relevant Level 3 Qualifications for example, A levels, level 3 NVQ, advanced apprenticeship or substantial relevant experience in youth work/healthcare. Plus, experience in sexual health and the intellectual ability to undertake the role.
• Achieved Level 2 child protection
• NVQ level 3 in Health or equivalent qualification in healthcare.

Knowledge

• Understanding of; How to Identify and recognise risk indicators that could lead to sexual ill health and poor health outcome
• Relationships and Sexual health Education in schools and the wider community
• Understands public health and education policy around health inequalities.
• Has knowledge of social and contextual factors that influence young people's sexual health and wellbeing.
• Has knowledge and understanding of the law, good practice and safeguarding issues relating to working with young people in schools and in the community.
• Understands the principles of equality and diversity and trauma informed practice.

Skills

• Experience of working with groups of young people in diverse settings including the hard to reach and those with specific learning needs
• Excellent communication skills, especially with young people, professionals, and underrepresented groups
• Ability to use ICT including online platforms such as Microsoft 365/Teams and zoom. Email, the Internet, word processing, PowerPoint, spreadsheets, databases, and smart boards

Experience

• Post qualification experience in a formal or an informal education setting (school/college/youth work)
• Post qualification experience in a formal or an informal education setting (school/college/youth work)
• Diverse youth work: different client groups different settings different styles
• Working within a PSHE curriculum
• Previous health promotion experience working with young people.

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.

£24,937 to £26,598 a yearper annum pro rota (term time only)