Pride in Practice Sessional Trainer
Manchester, Greater Manchester (with hybrid working options)

About Us

Nationally significant and focused on a fair and equal society, we are the LGBT Foundation, a charity supporting the needs of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.

Serving over 40,000 people each and every year, we provide information to a further 200,000 individuals online, making us one of the most significant charities of our kind in the UK. We help all LGBT people to achieve their full potential and aim to be ‘here if you need us’.

Pride in Practice is a model for change that utilises strength-based approaches to improve primary care services for LGBTQ+ people. This model brings together the lived experience of LGBTQ+ people, best practice guidelines and community assets to initiate meaningful and sustainable change.

We’re now looking for a number of Pride in Practice Sessional Trainers to join our team on sessional contracts.

The Benefits

- Salary of £13.72 per hour
- Accrued annual leave based upon hours of work will be paid on an annual basis
- Sector leading 10% employers’ contributory pension
- Relaxed dress code

This is a fantastic opportunity for passionate individuals who enjoy interacting with a range of people and have experience of influencing or persuading others to make changes to join our incredible organisation.

Working within an enthusiastic and dedicated team, you will help to ensure that LGBT patients across the UK are receiving the care services they need and deserve.

So, if you want to use your time, knowledge and skill set to make a vital difference to our healthcare system, we want to hear from you.

The Role

As a Pride in Practice Sessional Trainer, you will work with GP practices, pharmacies, dental practices and optometrists to ensure the delivery of Pride in Practice.

Delivering on-site and remote training sessions for primary care staff and other healthcare professionals, you will provide support to help them become more inclusive of the health needs of LGBT communities.

Overall, you will support primary care staff to reflect on their service delivery and implement Pride in Practice’s best practice model for inclusive service delivery to LGBT patients.

About You

To be considered as a Pride in Practice Sessional Trainer, you will need:

- Experience of influencing or persuading people to make changes
- Experience of communicating with people from lots of different backgrounds
- Experience of writing and delivering presentations
- Knowledge of the issues and experiences of LGBT people, particularly related to healthcare and access
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Please don’t be put off if you feel you don’t tick all the boxes above - if you think you could be great for this job, but aren’t entirely sure, please apply anyway.

Please note, this is a sessional contract and there are no set hours per week.

The closing date for this role is 26th July 2022 at 9am.

Other organisations may call this role Sessional Worker, Mental Health Sessional Worker, Project Worker, Programme Trainer, Learning Programme Trainer, or Healthcare Support Worker.

We are taking positive action to encourage applications from people of colour (PoC) and other racially minoritised communities, trans, non-binary and/or older people (aged 50+), to improve the representation of colleagues from these communities in our leadership team.

*Trans is an umbrella and inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs in some way from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, cross dressers and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth.

So, if you want to help make a positive change to our healthcare system as a Pride in Practice Sessional Trainer, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.