Health Promotion Support Officer - 12 month Secondment

Working as part of the Sexual Health Service, you will provide day-to-day health promotion support, helping to develop and deliver engaging initiatives that improve sexual health awareness and outcomes across local communities. You will contribute to outreach and engagement activities, working directly with patients, communities and key target groups, particularly those at increased risk of poor sexual health and HIV outcomes. You will work collaboratively with colleagues, external organisations, professionals and community partners to ensure health promotion activity is accessible, inclusive and responsive to local needs. The role will also support the management and development of the service's website, digital platforms and social media content, helping to ensure people have access to accurate, relevant and engaging sexual health information.,

• Develop and deliver targeted sexual health and HIV health promotion interventions for young people and communities at increased risk of poor sexual health outcomes.
• Undertake community outreach across Lincolnshire, North and North East Lincolnshire, engaging diverse and seldom-heard communities through events, venues, social media and other appropriate settings.
• Promote HIV testing, early diagnosis, treatment and wider sexual health services, while addressing stigma and discrimination.
• Deliver professional training, community education and awareness sessions using an inclusive, sex-positive approach.
• Work collaboratively with NHS teams, local authorities, community organisations and other partners to strengthen sexual health promotion.
• Maintain and develop website and social media content, campaigns and promotional materials alongside communications and marketing teams.
• Support key campaigns and events including HIV Testing Week, World AIDS Day, Pride, LGBT+ History Month and Black History Month.
• Support the C-Card scheme, including registration, training and promotion.
• Undertake research and gather community insight, producing reports and evidence-based information to demonstrate impact.
• Support commissioner meetings, reporting and delivery against agreed KPIs and targets.
• Produce internal communications and use Microsoft Office and digital platforms effectively to support service delivery and promotion., LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
  
  At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.