Health Promotion Specialist

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Health Promotion Specialist NHS AfC: Band 6 Main area Sexual Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (until August 2026) Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

22.5 hours per week Job ref 333-D-SH-0401

Site Archway Centre Town London Salary £44,806 - £53,134 per annum pro rata inc HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 04/05/:59 Interview date 20/05/2025

Job overview Are you passionate about reducing health inequalities and reaching those most at risk? Join our dynamic CLASH/SHOC team as a Health Promotion Specialist, working directly with vulnerable and often hard-to-reach individuals across Camden, Islington, and Haringey.

About the Role:

We're looking for someone with current, hands-on experience in a Health Promotion setting, who can confidently engage individuals from a wide range of communities. This role requires a flexible, proactive, and empathetic approach to support people in improving their sexual and reproductive health.

Main duties of the job Key Responsibilities:

Outreach and Engagement:

• Identify and work with at-risk individuals, including:
• Commercial sex workers
• Homeless individuals
• People who use drugs
• LGBTQI+/Men who have sex with men (MSM)
• Black African/Black Caribbean and other Ethnic Minority communities

Settings may include:

Flats, saunas, hostels, drug & alcohol services, sex-on-premises venues, leisure centres, barbershops, hair salons, places of faith, community events, and more.

Client Support:

• Deliver sexual health and HIV prevention support using motivational interviewing and other techniques.
• Assist clients in navigating clinical pathways and accessing Pan-London services.
• Promote informed health choices and behaviour change.

Clinical Tasks:

Perform asymptomatic screening, including venepuncture and quick check testing.

Training and Advocacy:

Deliver sessions to professionals and community staff to enhance awareness and service reach.

Requirements:

• Substantial, demonstrable experience in face-to-face client work within a health promotion setting.
• Confidence working with diverse and marginalised populations.
• Excellent communication skills and cultural awareness.
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends as required.
• Ability to travel across Camden, Islington, and Haringey

If you're committed to making a real impact in people's lives and improving access to essential services, we'd love to hear from you.

Working for our organisation CNWL are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing. Together we look at ways of improving an individual's quality of life, through high quality healthcare and personal support.

Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.

Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.

Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles.We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.

Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.

The job role will include:

Working with vulnerable clients

Identifying and engaging with individuals from target groups in our Health Promotion contract

To attend agreed settings and venues to work with at risk groups identified by the service, which includes but is not exclusive to: Commercial sex workers, Homeless Clients, Drug Users, Men who have sex with men, and Black and Ethnic Minority communities

Supporting individuals in learning how to make better health choices and supporting them in initiating and sustaining appropriate behavioural changes

Work with clients to identify on going communication and engage with them in HIV prevention and other sexual health issues using motivational interviewing skills or other models as agreed by the service

Contact with clients and assisting patient through their clinic pathway

Helping people to find and use the right services including Pan London services

Recording and reporting activity and results

Clinical need

Asymptomatic screening and Quick check

Training

Provide training sessions to groups of staff and other professionals

Due to the nature of this role flexibility is required and shift work which includes late evening and weekends are essential.

Person specification Education/Qualifications

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of experience working with relevant client groups
• Educated to post Degree level in specialism or equivalent level of experience working with relevant client groups
• EducationG.C.S.E/A levels or equivalent qualification and experience

Experience

• Experience of having worked in the NHS, including experience post degree qualification
• Experience of having worked with relevant client groups
• Administering and co-ordinating outreach in a range of settings, including the organisation of different activities, prioritising tasks, monitoring and evaluating
• Delivery of workshops to a variety of users
• Working effectively with different agencies in the community, voluntary or statutory sectors
• Planning, delivering and evaluating training on good sexual health

Skills

• Excellent organisational & prioritising skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with range of individuals, including hard to reach client groups namely Commercial Sex Workers, Homeless Clients, Drug Users, Men who have sex with men, BMEA communities
• Able to undertake HIV testing/Asymptomatic screening including venepuncture and point of care testing.

Knowledge

• Sound knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of good sexual health and the barriers to these client groups accessing services
• Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance relating the client groups targeted
• Sound knowledge and understanding of STIs, HIV, contraception, and access to sexual health services

Abilities

• Ability to innovate and develop creative outreach activities
• Ability to support others and respond to their needs
• Able to manage competing priorities with confidence and working to tight deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail skills and able to produce high quality and accurate work
• Communicates and networks effectively. Successfully persuades and influences others. Relates to others in a confident and relaxed manner.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team or by using on own initiative
• Ability to deliver on agreed objectives
• Ability to be flexible and respond to changing demands

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken . click apply for full job details