Sexual Health Promotion and Outreach Worker
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Salary
£28,392 to £31,157
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
10 September 2026
9 days left
Job description
Are you passionate about improving sexual health outcomes, tackling health inequalities, and making a real difference in communities? If so, we have a...
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and team working skills
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to deal effectively with a range of queries from multi-professional colleagues, external providers and clinical staff
- Ability to communicate with all levels of staff
- Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times
- Ability to work under pressure, prioritise workloads and meet tight deadlines
- Excellent organisational skills and administrative ability
- Problem solving
- Experience of working in a team
Desirable
- Knowledge of common contraceptive methods
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE standard with passes at grade C or above for English and Maths or similar through vocational training
- NVQ Level 4 or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing development (work related training programme / commencement of further study)
Desirable
- Experience of screening for sexually transmitted infections and taking blood samples in asymptomatic individuals
Experience
Essential
- Sexual health promotion experience
- Experience in positive engagement with hard to reach vulnerable populations
- Partnership/liaison/networking skills
- Ability to manage a variety of activities, groups and individuals
- Knowledge of sexual health services within the NHS
- Excellent IT and keyboard skills
Desirable
- NHS Experience
- Experience in handling highly sensitive situations empathically
- Experience of STI screening, including taking blood samples, in asymptomatic individuals
- Experience of developing reports
Skills
Essential
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- Ability to prioritise own workload
- Ability to adapt to interruptions and changing prioritie
- Contribute to setting team priorities and develop work programmes for department
- Ability to organise pieces of work involving input from other people, to ensure completion in a timely manner
- Demonstrates a flexible and pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Able to use a computer for prolonged periods
- Able to transport resources to different sites or work
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Must be able to work across various sites across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (encompasses Nottingham City areas, Nottingham County areas, Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood, Worksop and Retford to cover the Bassetlaw population)
- Flexible and adaptable, including ability to work out of hours
- Enhanced DBS clearance
- Full driving licence with the use of own vehicle and able to travel between locations
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
27 August 2026
Last checked
1 September 2026
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