Job Introduction

The Service Coordinator at Turning Point’s new adult sexual health service provides an exciting opportunity to lead and develop a new outreach team of sexual health nurses that will take clinical sexual health support out to residents from vulnerable backgrounds, across Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham, including:

•    Sex workers

•    People who misuse substances

•    Rough sleepers and people experiencing homelessness

•    People with learning disabilities

•    People whose lives are impacted by challenging mental health issues

•    Transgender people

•    Asylum seekers and refugees

•    Women escaping from domestic violence

•    Other marginalised groups

In addition to leading clinical service delivery, the Service Coordinator will work as part of a senior leadership team to ensure outreach service provision is coordinated and joined up, providing a seamless support experience for people accessing the services that shares best practice and accounts for intersectionality across the community.

This is a unique opportunity to be involved in the set-up, development and delivery of a brand-new service. You will be leading the way for sexual health clinical delivery at Turning Point, a national health and social care provider, with support from our central clinical team. You will be developing sector-wide good practice for community-based clinical sexual health services, delivered in outreach settings, reaching people where they are.

Role Responsibility

We are looking for someone with a track record of providing clinical sexual health and contraception support and strong interpersonal skills to lead a team and work collaboratively with a range of different stakeholders. The role will demand determination and autonomous practice to enable a solution-focussed approach that gets the best result for individuals and the wider community.

Success in this role depends on a deep-rooted commitment to being community-focused and community-driven. The Service Coordinator must actively centre the voices, experiences, and needs of local people, to ensure that services are not only clinically effective but also trusted, relevant, and shaped by the communities they serve.

The successful candidate will work with other internal outreach service colleagues and external partner services already working with local people, to engage with groups who don’t currently access support for their sexual and reproductive health.

Most importantly, we need someone who shares our Turning Point values and is committed to working with people at greatest risk of experiencing sexual health inequalities. We work holistically to understand the barriers people face and explore how we can work creatively to get the right support to the right people at the right time.

This role will contribute a holistic approach to safeguarding vulnerable adults in identifying behaviours which are positive and supportive, in contrast to those that are exploitative and controlling. A key part of this role delivering on quality work which is reported correctly to ensure it can be linked into outcomes and KPI’s agreed with our commissioners.

The Ideal Candidate

At the heart of this role is a commitment to community voice and ownership. The post holder must champion inclusive, ground-up approaches that empower communities to shape services that reflect their realities, needs, and strengths.

You will need to be a qualified nurse registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council. As an employee you will have access to RCNi to assist with revalidation, indemnity insurance and support and supervision. And of course, we’re looking for a Nurse who loves talking to people with different needs, is genuinely interested in helping them, and possesses a deep level of empathy, understanding and patience.

About us

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:

• 26 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 28 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.
• Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees. Turning Point Benefits

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.

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