Salary: £29,269 pro rata per annum
Hours: 17 hours
Term: Permanent, Part Time
Location: Suite 1 Freetown Court 15 Freetown Way Hull HU2 8JQ
Vacancy Information:
Overall Aim:
- To reduce the incidence of teen conceptions, STI infection and unsafe relationships between young people in Hull.
Prime Objectives:
- To work with young people on a one to one basis, and in small groups, to provide support and learning around safer sex, prevention of teen conceptions, healthy relationships, consent, CSE, the grooming cycle and online safety.
- To undertake outreach work, focusing on Young people in colleges, schools, community centres, youth centres, youth projects, and outreach to other settings that young people use.
- To offer information and sexual health resources, including condoms and lube in a variety of settings, including over the telephone, face to face and over the internet.
- To deliver appropriate community based sexual health interventions including HIV point of care tests (POCT) and chlamydia tests to the target groups in community settings.
- To market these services, monitor and evaluate them.
- To work in partnership, with appropriate agencies, to develop these services further.
Main Responsibilities and Duties (list not exhaustive – please refer to the job description and person specification on our website for more details)
- To assess needs in relation to safer sex and sexual health of Young people and higher risk sub-groups identified within this target group.
- To develop ways of working around perceived, felt and expressed needs of Young people around safer sex, in conjunction with the Local Service Co-ordinator and Yorkshire MESMAC Community Development Workers.
- To provide relevant, accurate and accessible information focusing on the needs of Young people allowing them to make informed choices about their sexual health.
- To develop a programme of outreach work, in conjunction with Yorkshire MESMAC Community Development Workers, Sessional Outreach Workers and the Hull and East Yorkshire Operations Manager.
Closing Date: 28/10/2024
How To Apply:
Application packs (along with the job description and person specification) can be downloaded from our website: https://www.mesmac.co.uk/contact/vacancies/community-development-worker-young-people-hull
Completed applications to be sent to jobs@mesmac.co.uk by the closing date.
Please note that CVs and late applications will not be accepted
If your application is successful then Interviews will be on Wednesday 13th November 2024.
Organisation Contact Information:
Name: Melanie Clark
Telephone:
Email: jobs@mesmac.co.uk