Educational Outreach Worker Vulnerable Young People Manchester, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our well established, vibrant Young Peoples Outreach Team as an Educational Outreach Worker.
The successful candidate will be passionate about improving the sexual health and well being of the particularly vulnerable and excluded groups who we work with, across the city of Manchester.
You will be a confident, effective communicator in delivering educational sessions around relationships and sexual health, both in group settings and on a 1:1 basis. You will be comfortable discussing sensitive issues with a confident approach and be able to respond sensitively and in a non judgmental manner as and when appropriate.
You will possess an excellent knowledge of the law and safeguarding relating to young people.
To work closely within the Young People’s Outreach Team playing a key role to further development and delivery of a vibrantly wide outreach service to young people under 25, particularly those under the age of 19.
The focus will be sexual health and teenage pregnancy with an emphasis on “hard to reach” young people i.e. those not in mainstream educations, LAC, supported accommodation.
Able to deliver training to other professionals/practitioners who also work with young people.
To enhance other professionals knowledge and skills relating to
contraception and sexual health.
To contribute to local and national contraception and sexual health targets.
Plan and implement in the development and delivery of informal relationships and sex education for young people in a variety of settings
Adapting sessions where necessary e.g. for those young people with English as a second language or with learning disabilities.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
