Healthy Relationship Worker

**Healthy Relationship Worker (Sexual Health and Relationship’s Education)**
**SO1 (£33,366 - £37,938)**
**37 Hours, Full Time**
**Permanent**
**Hybrid - Fred Perry House (minimum 2 days per week in the office)**

Application Deadline: 11:59pm 10th February 2025
Shortlisting Date: 11th February 2025
Interview Date: 18th February 2025
Interview Type: In Person

**Your Role**

We’d love you to come and join our Stockport Family Here in Stockport, we’re looking for driven, dedicated, and caring practitioners to help support some of our most important people, our children, young people and their families.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Sexual Health and Healthy Relationships Team. The Healthy Relationship workers provide sexual health and relationship education to Stockport children and young people through universal and targeted interventions, helping them to have healthy relationships as they move through adolescence and into adulthood. Offering relationship education about healthy and respectful relationships, unhealthy and abusive relationships, sex, consent and the law, appropriate online relationships and safety, the effects on relationships from porn and social media, negative attitudes towards women and girls, and supporting young people with gender identity and sexuality. As a Healthy Relationship Worker, you will work alongside other professionals, parents and carers to support Stockport children and young people around healthy and safe relationships. You will also work alongside health colleagues to manage a weekly drop in for young people at Locala (under 18 sexual health clinic) to provide information advice and guidance around healthy relationships to young people who attend the clinic.

**About You**

We are looking for a practitioner who is passionate about making a difference and wanting children and young people to reach their full potential. You’ll be able to think creatively about how you can build relationships and engage with young people. You’ll be someone with knowledge, skills and an interest in this area of practice. You will have a desire to work with young people who may be struggling and need some additional support to enable them to achieve their goals, progress and thrive.

A team player who values the importance of working with colleagues and partner agencies.

You will be committed to your own professional development, take up the vast amount of learning opportunities on offer and be excited about being a part of Stockport Family.

In Stockport Family we value diversity and the unique perspectives that each of us bring and are committed to being an inclusive and aspirational place to work for all colleagues.

**About Us**

As a practitioner in Stockport Family, you will benefit from:

- Our relationships with the people we work with and with each other being at the heart of everything we do. We have a model of restorative practice and relationships are the key to how we work together comprehensive restorative practice training is offered to all.
- Co-located, integrated working bringing police, social workers, health, and education services together.
- High quality and regular reflective supervision, recognising we are humans first, professionals second.
- Specialist trauma-informed services to support you when you are working with issues such as high-risk domestic abuse, substance misuse or complex safeguarding
- Innovative and creative ways of working so that there are always opportunities for your personal development and to learn how to do things differently.
- Supportive leadership who listen and respond to feedback
- Regular informal learning circles to keep your knowledge and skills up to date
- Dedicated workforce development managers for every stage of your career
- Genuine commitment to your Continuing Professional Development with regular opportunities across Stockport Family for short and long training courses tailored to your needs and interests; we are committed to your professional development.
- Access to corporate leadership and supervision programmes, support, and coaching.

Support for practitioners also includes regular check-ins with workforce development and colleagues from across Stockport Family and opportunities to attend meetings with senior leaders to think about our continued journey of learning and improvement to deliver the best possible outcomes for adults, children and families in Stockport.

In Stockport Family we value diversity and the unique perspectives that each of us bring and are committed to being an inclusive and aspirational place to work for all colleagues.

Stockport Council offers a variety of competitive Employee Benefits including a generous holiday entitlement and pension scheme, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, health and wellbeing support, travel schemes including Cycle to Work and Care Lease scheme and a huge range of employee discounts on everyday purchases; including gym memberships, days out, cinema tic