Service Coordinator - LSL Sexual Health Services

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Service Coordinator to lead outreach teams in a new sexual health service targeting marginalized groups across London. This role promises to champion community engagement and improve clinical service delivery, ensuring vulnerable populations receive essential health support.

Benefits

26 days paid holiday + Bank Holidays

Option to buy additional holidays

Qualifications

• Champion inclusive, ground-up approaches empowering communities.
• Must possess a deep level of empathy and understanding.
• Experience working with diverse needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the outreach team for sexual health support.
• Work collaboratively with different stakeholders.
• Deliver quality work linked to outcomes and KPIs.

Skills

Empathy

Community engagement

Interpersonal skills

Education

Qualified nurse registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council

Job description

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Job summary

The Service Coordinator at Turning Points new adult sexual health service provides an exciting opportunity to lead and develop a new outreach team of sexual health nurses that will take clinical sexual health support out to residents from vulnerable backgrounds, across Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham, including:

• Sex workers
• People who misuse substances
• Rough sleepers and people experiencing homelessness
• People with learning disabilities
• People whose lives are impacted by challenging mental health issues
• Asylum seekers and refugees
• Women escaping from domestic violence
• Other marginalised groups

In addition to leading clinical service delivery, the Service Coordinator will work as part of a senior leadership team to ensure outreach service provision is coordinated and joined up, providing a seamless support experience for people accessing the services that shares best practice and accounts for intersectionality across the community.

This is a unique opportunity to be involved in the set-up, development and delivery of a brand-new service. You will be leading the way for sexual health clinical delivery at Turning Point, a national health and social care provider, with support from our central clinical team. You will be developing sector-wide good practice for community-based clinical sexual health services, delivered in outreach settings, reaching people where they are.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone with a track record of providing clinical sexual health and contraception support and strong interpersonal skills to lead a team and work collaboratively with a range of different stakeholders. The role will demand determination and autonomous practice to enable a solution-focussed approach that gets the best result for individuals and the wider community.

Success in this role depends on a deep-rooted commitment to being community-focused and community-driven. The Service Coordinator must actively centre the voices, experiences, and needs of local people, to ensure that services are not only clinically effective but also trusted, relevant, and shaped by the communities they serve.

The successful candidate will work with other internal outreach service colleagues and external partner services already working with local people, to engage with groups who dont currently access support for their sexual and reproductive health.

We work holistically to understand the barriers people face and explore how we can work creatively to get the right support to the right people at the right time.

This role will contribute a holistic approach to safeguarding vulnerable adults in identifying behaviours which are positive and supportive, in contrast to those that are exploitative and controlling. A key part of this role delivering on quality work which is reported correctly to ensure it can be linked into outcomes and KPIs agreed with our commissioners.

About us

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:

• 26 days paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 28 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.

Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following the link in the supporting link section to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and PersonSpecification attached within the supporting documents.

Person Specification

Experience

• At the heart of this role is a commitment to community voice and ownership. The post holder must champion inclusive, ground-up approaches that empower communities to shape services that reflect their realities, needs, and strengths.
• You will need to be a qualified nurse registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council. As an employee you will have access to RCNi to assist with revalidation, indemnity insurance and support and supervision. And of course, were looking for a Nurse who loves talking to people with different needs, is genuinely interested in helping them, and possesses a deep level of empathy, understanding and patience.

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.