Head of Wellbeing and Sexual Health Education and Outreach Services

Job Overview

This senior leadership role is pivotal in driving forward the strategic planning, delivery, and evaluation of high‑impact wellbeing and sexual health education and outreach initiatives across Essex and Suffolk. The post holder will lead a multidisciplinary team in promoting both wellbeing and sexual health, reducing health inequalities, and increasing access to services for all communities, especially those at greatest risk.

The Head of Wellbeing and Sexual Health Education and Outreach will ensure that evidence‑based educational frameworks and outreach strategies are embedded across services, while collaborating with partners in public health, education, and the voluntary sector. With strong public health, health inequalities insight and leadership skills, the post holder will also contribute to innovative service development, staff training, and stakeholder engagement.

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks. We welcome applicants from under‑represented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Qualifications

• Masters level qualification or evidence of equivalent knowledge and experience.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge – refers to knowledge and expertise which can only be acquired through a combination or in‑depth experience and study.
• STI training & experience

Desirable criteria

• Management/leadership development programme or qualification

Essential criteria

• Recent work within wellbeing and sexual health service
• Strong leadership and management skills, with experience in motivating and supervising teams.
• Strong understanding of sexual health issues, including STI prevention and treatment, contraception, and reproductive health
• Knowledge of community outreach methodologies and strategies.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of mobilisation of new services, contracts or projects

All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.

As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.

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• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback…