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 our communities.

We are seeking to appoint the following:

Sessional Community Testing Worker (Sholay Love Project) – Leeds/Bradford

The primary objective is:
• To deliver community based sexual health interventions, including HIV point of care tests (POCT) to the target groups:
o South Asian Men who have sex with men

Main responsibilities and Duties: (this list is not exhaustive - please see the application pack for full list)
1. Staff and deliver arranged community testing sessions at the times and locations which meet the demand of South Asian MSM; regularly including weekends and evenings.
2. To provide relevant, accurate and accessible information to South Asian MSM allowing them to make informed choices about their sexual health. Where possible using languages spoken by South Asian MSM.
3. Distributing Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea pee in a pot tests and where part of clinical governance to take Pharyngeal swabs for Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea and supervise service user self taken swabs for Rectal Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea.
4. To work positively with community groups, venues and stakeholders to facilitate continued service delivery for South Asian MSM.
5. To distribute appropriate health campaign materials organised by the project and other agencies: local, national and international. Including specific Sholay Love project materials.
6. To be trained in, signed off and adhere to all appropriate clinical governance, policies and protocols.

Salary: £12.07 per hour
Testing sessions can take place in a morning, afternoon or evening and occasionally weekends. They are usually 4 hours per session, plus up to a further 1 hour of administration time per session (although can be shorter).

Due to the nature of the work there will be a mandatory training period (of approximately 5 weeks) when successful candidates will be required to attend at least one testing session per week as part of their training.
Once the testing training has been completed, and a competency assessment for delivering the sexual health screens taken place and been passed, then the successful candidate will then be given the opportunity to undertake regular testing sessions and will be required to attend mandatory clinical supervision, meetings and update training periodically. Candidates will need to provide evidence to support Hep B immunity to carry out this role.

Below is a schedule of the drop in testing sessions at the Leeds and Bradford offices: Other testing sessions will be developed to meet the needs of Sholay Love project beneficiaries.

Leeds
Every Tuesday 5pm to 8pm
Every Thursday 6pm to 8pm
1st Saturday of the month 12pm to 3pm

Bradford
1st Tuesday of the month 4pm to 7pm
3rd Saturday of the month 12pm to 3pm

There are additional Outreach Testing Sessions in Bradford – please refer to the application pack for locations, dates and times of these sessions.

Application packs can be downloaded from our website: http://mesmac.co.uk/contact/vacancies

Closing date is: Noon on Tuesday 13th March 2018
Please note that late applications and CV’s will not be accepted
Interviews will be on Thursday 22nd March 2018.