Hull: Sessional Outreach & Testing Worker with MESMAC

Deadline 13th May
Salary: £12.07 per hour

Come and join the team in Hull where they have an opportunity for a Sessional Outreach & Testing Worker, working on the PEasy project.

Prime Objectives:

• To deliver community based sexual health interventions to promote and administer gonorrhoea testing as part of the PEasy Project funded through Public Health England’s Innovation Fund. This project is specifically working with young Afro Caribbean men and their communities.
• Regular outreach will promote home testing and engagement with sexual health services. This will include regular Evenings and weekends.

Testing and outreach sessions can take place in a morning, afternoon or evening and occasionally weekends. Due to the nature of the work there will be a mandatory training period (of approximately up to 5 weeks) where successful candidates will be required to attend at least one testing session per week as part of their training. The Sessional Worker will then be given the opportunity to undertake regular testing and outreach sessions weekly and be required to attend mandatory clinical supervision, meetings and update training periodically.

For more information, and an application pack (along with the job description and person specification) go to the MESMAC website 

Closing date for application is Noon on Thursday 13th May 2021.

Completed applications to be sent to jobs@mesmac.co.uk by the closing date. Please note that late applications and CV’s will not be accepted

If your application is successful then Interviews will be on Tuesday 25th May 2021. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions it is likely that the interviews will be conducted via Zoom.

Yorkshire MESMAC is a group of independent community based sexual health and social wellbeing services that are committed to developing and delivering services that are responsive to the needs of their communities. They value diversity and are an equal opportunities employer, as well as a Disability Confident employer.

Applications are welcome from all suitably skilled persons from all sections of the community, in particular the Afro-Caribbean community who are currently under-represented in the Hull workforce.