HIV Living Well & iCaSH Outreach & Prevention Practitioner

If so iCaSH Cambridgeshire are looking for a part time (30 hours p/w) fixed term HIV Living Well & iCaSH Outreach & Prevention Practitioner to deliver our HIV Living Well Service. This post will be responsible for the coordination and delivery of an HIV support service for people newly diagnosed and those living with HIV across Cambridgeshire and the delivery of the wider sexual health outreach and prevention service. Hours will be flexible to include evenings and weekends Please advise us of any flexible working proposals in your application which can be discussed at interview stage., HIV Living Well: Co-ordinate and deliver an HIV support service for people newly diagnosed and those living with HIV across Cambridgeshire. Working with providers, promote a self-management approach so that service users gain the confidence, skills and knowledge to manage their own sexual health. Use community engagement and partnership approaches that tackle HIV related stigma and discrimination. Outreach and Prevention: To develop and deliver a wide range of community-based interventions designed to improve the sexual health and wellbeing of local populations and reduce sexual health inequalities in vulnerable and marginalised populations. Deliver outreach services to target groups which are relevant to their lifestyle and sexual practices including:

• Promoting condoms and personal sexual health strategies.
• Offering advice and information about sexual and reproductive health and signposting to clinical services.
• Helping service users to assess their sexual and reproductive health needs and referring them to appropriate clinics and other services.
• Providing Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea screening kits to asymptomatic target groups.
• Offering and providing HIV point of care tests (POCT) to target groups.
• Providing support in terms of safer sexual practices.
• Providing C-Card training and condom provision for 13-24-year-olds.
• Developing and providing a range of sexual and reproductive health training courses.
  
  Do you have experience of signposting, social prescribing, advocacy or care navigation, including supporting access to services for people living with HIV or long term health conditions in Cambridgeshire?
Do you have experience working in sexual health outreach and prevention?, Please note that the nature of this job requires you to hold a full UK drivers license and have access to a vehicle

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