Spectra are looking for an experienced and competent person to support administrative and organisational functions at Spectra. This involves a combination of office management, communication, data management, budget management, Human Resources and coordination tasks.
You will be confident and knowledgeable in office systems and processes. You will often be the first point of contact at Spectra’s office, and will work across a number of teams.
You will be able unequivocally to respect, support, promote and work within LGBTQ+ and other diverse communities.
This post may require rare evening/weekend work.
*Interviews: Spectra is utilising a dynamic recruitment process whereby any promising applicants can be contacted as soon as their application is received and invited for interview. Please therefore submit your application as soon as possible and do not wait until the ultimate deadline.
Salary: £44,120 FTE for 5 days per week, plus pension contribution.
Spectra is seeking an experienced, highly numerate and data confident individual to drive and performance manage Spectra’s sexual health contracts, and to identify growth and successfully bid for new funding opportunities . These encompass adults, young people, sexual health and HIV.
The post holder will be a strong programme manager, experienced in negotiating contracts and KPIs and delivering against them, ideally within the third sector. You will have managed delivery staff, be confident liaising with partners, commissioners, stakeholders and professionals; and in presenting the work and vision of Spectra via formal reports and presentations.
We are looking for someone who is outcomes driven, forensic in use of financial and evidence data, passionate about challenging structural inequalities, knowledgeable on intersecting issues in sexual health, and committed to making a real difference.
We particularly welcome applications from appropriately skilled structurally excluded groups we serve eg LGBTQ+, sex workers, people of colour.
*Interviews: Spectra is utilising a dynamic recruitment process whereby any promising applicants can be contacted as soon as their application is received and invited for interview. Please therefore submit your application as soon as possible and do not wait until the ultimate deadline.
Do you want to support other trans and non-binary (TNB) people by facilitating a regular in-person social group?
Would you like to support TNB people to reconnect with the wider community in a relaxed, supportive, fun and engaging way?
Main Tasks include Co-facilitating an existing, thriving monthly in-person peer social group for trans and non-binary individuals. Encouraging service users to share their experiences, skills and to bring their ideas for workshops or speakers and ensuring the smooth running of events and activities.
The role involves working at a Central London venue.
The post is for sessional work; Sessions take place in the evening. Minimum commitment of 6 hours per month required.
Please complete and return the application form and diversity monitoring form, including the personal statement. No CVs please.The interviews will take place on an invitational basis.
*Interviews: Spectra is utilising a dynamic recruitment process whereby any promising applicants can be contacted as soon as their application is received and invited for interview. Please therefore submit your application as soon as possible and do not wait until the ultimate deadline.
Salary: £30,000 pa part-time post (£18,000 pro-rated), 3 days (21.36 hrs) p/w, plus pension contribution.
Spectra are looking for an experienced, knowledgeable and proactive individual to promote, coordinate and deliver sexual health and wellbeing services in South West London to targeted groups. These cover trans and non-binary people, people with learning difficulties, people with mental health problems, people with drug and alcohol issues, the homeless, refugees and migrants, and people affected by violence against women and girls.
You will establish and maintain relationships with local services and professionals supporting these groups.
You will be confident and knowledgeable of issues faced by structurally excluded people around access to appropriate health care and support. You will offer one to one and group support directly to impacted groups, as well as a range of health related offers eg STI screening and outreach.
You will be able unequivocally to respect, support, promote and work within LGBTQ+ and other diverse communities.
This post may require some evening/weekend work.
*Interviews: Spectra is utilising a dynamic recruitment process whereby any promising applicants can be contacted as soon as their application is received and invited for interview. Please therefore submit your application as soon as possible and do not wait until the ultimate deadline.
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Young People’s Creative Arts Therapy Lead
£33,000 FTE, pro rata for 4 days, plus pension contribution
Spectra are looking for an experienced, reliable, creative, outgoing creative arts therapist or counsellor to manage our ‘Creative Arts Therapy Service’ (11-18 years). Relevant recognised qualifications (minimum L4 Diploma level) in the field of therapy, counselling and/ or psychology are required. In addition, you must be an accredited or registered member of a professional body (i.e., BACP, UKCP or HCPC).
This is an exciting opportunity to join a diverse and experienced team of practitioners and we encourage counsellors, therapists and creative arts therapists to apply (drama, art, music, dance movement or play). You will have experience of delivering psychological therapies online and in-person and identify under the broad umbrella of LGBTQ+ yourself (Spectra’s therapeutic service operates as a peer led model). You will hold a strong understanding of the mental health support needs of young people and be confident in engaging with young people in a supportive, affirmative and non-judgemental way.
This exciting job opportunity requires you to develop and pilot a creative arts therapeutic support program for young people at risk of educational exclusion, or who have been excluded from mainstream education settings, who experience multiple disadvantage such as racial inequality, poverty, SEND (special education needs and disability), or stigmatised identities (LGBTQIA+) within Southwest London.
You will research and develop a model which incorporates creative therapeutic groupwork and mentoring, alongside building strong relationships with schools, PRUs (Pupil Referral Units), teachers, parents, and organisational partners. Dependant on the success of the pilot (which is initially funded for one year) you will have the opportunity to scale up, develop, and deliver the model more widely within PRUs and mainstream schools across London and beyond.
You will support the service in ensuring high quality and consistent delivery in line with KPIs and outcome frameworks. Vital to this role will be developing robust referral pathways with key professionals within education settings. You will be confident and knowledgeable of issues faced by young people and the barriers they may face. You will be supportive of our client groups, and competent to deliver and develop a high quality, responsive service.
The role will take a hybrid approach- working both online and attending onsite meetings and clinical work in London.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
Young People’s Creative Arts Therapy Lead
Deadline for applications: noon, 28th July 2023
Interview date: Week commencing TBC
Please contact Spectra’s Clinical Lead becky@spectra-london.org.uk should you have any questions about this role.
Outreach Worker – Sex Worker (SW) Project
Grade: £13.53 per hour plus holiday pay. Zero hours contract
Spectra is seeking Outreach Workers to support our Sex Worker Support Project, a new and exciting project for the boroughs of Richmond and Wandsworth.
Are you confident, personable, and looking to expand your skills while supporting the sex worker community?
This role will involve providing information and guidance for sex workers about their health and well-being, including their sexual health and well-being, mental health, and issues around gender. You will be given training in this and more, and as a community tester for our peer-led HIV & STI testing service.
The posts are for sessional work. Shifts take place at various times – weekday/weekends, daytime, and evening with plenty of options of when to work. Please find more details in the Job Description.
To better serve marginalised communities we currently particularly welcome applications from people with experience of sex work and/or those with key language skills (ideally Brazilian Portuguese or Romanian).
The role will work in multiple locations in South West London, including some anti-social hours.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
SWSW Outreach Worker Job Description
Open Recruitment. The interviews will take place on an invitational basis.
HIV Prevention Coordinator (GMI Partnership)
Salary: £28,950 p.a. pro rata equating to £23,160 p.a. plus pension contribution
Location: London
Spectra CIC delivers health and well-being services in London. As part of the GMI Partnership*, Spectra delivers outreach and screening targeted at Gay, Bisexual and Men who have Sex with Men (GBMSM) and other target groups in London.
The post holder will coordinate and provide information-based sexual health outreach services, HIV testing, training and brief HIV prevention interventions in commercial venues and at events across London, targeting people who may be at higher risk of HIV and STI acquisition.
You will have a good understanding of the sexual health and broader health and well-being needs and behaviours of GBMSM and other target groups and engage with them in a non-judgemental way. You will have a working knowledge of Office programmes including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
To better serve marginalised communities we currently particularly welcome applications from people of colour and/or those with key language skills.
The role will be based at Spectra CIC in Ladbroke Grove, working across London venues. It will require evening and weekend work, and flexible working hours.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
GMI HIV Prevention Coordinator Job Description
Deadline for applications: 22nd July 2023
Interview date: Interviews: Spectra is utilising a dynamic recruitment process whereby any promising applicants can be contacted as soon as their application is received and invited for interview. Please therefore submit your application as soon as possible and do not wait until the ultimate deadline.
YP LGBTQ+ Counselling Service Lead
£32,100 FTE for 2.5 days, plus pension contribution
Spectra are looking for an experienced, reliable, creative, outgoing therapist or counsellor to manage our counselling service for LGBTQ+ YP (Young People, 13-18 years). Relevant recognised qualifications (minimum L4 Diploma level) in the field of therapy, counselling and/ or psychology are required. In addition, you must be an accredited or registered member of a professional body (i.e., BACP, UKCP or HCPC).
This is an exciting opportunity to join a diverse and experienced team of practitioners and we encourage counsellors, therapists and creative arts therapist to apply (drama, art, music, dance movement or play).
This role seeks to build upon and develop Spectra’s thriving YP counselling service. You will have experience of delivering psychological therapies online and in-person and identify under the broad umbrella of LGBTQ+ yourself (Spectra’s therapeutic service operates as a peer led model). You will hold a strong understanding of the mental health support needs of LGBTQ+ young people and be confident in engaging with young people in a supportive, affirmative and non-judgemental way.
You will support the service in ensuring high quality and consistent delivery in line with KPIs and outcome frameworks. Vital to this role will be developing robust referral pathways with key professionals and partner organisations (charities, mental health teams, CAMHS and GIDS). You will be confident and knowledgeable of issues faced by LGBTQ+ young people and the barriers they may face. You will be supportive of our client groups, and competent to deliver and develop a high quality, responsive service.
The role will take a hybrid approach- working both online and attending onsite meetings and clinical work in London.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
YP LGBTQ+ Counselling Service Lead
Deadline for applications: noon, 16th June 2023
Interview date: Week commencing 19th June 2023
Please contact Spectra’s Clinical Lead becky@spectra-london.org.uk should you have any questions about this role.
LGBTQIA+ Youth Worker
Spectra £27,797 FTE (pro rata for 1.5 days per week)
Spectra are looking for an experienced, reliable, creative and outgoing individual to promote, lead and support an LGBTQIA+ young people’s group; the group sessions are primarily held online, but with regular meet-ups held in London.
You will act as the primary liaison between Spectra, youth services, schools and colleges and a range of agencies and professionals working with young LGBTQIA+ people. You will establish and maintain relationships to promote good mental health and resilience, ensuring quality of service to young people.
Within group settings, you will develop and manage recreational and social activities, and encourage young people’s active participation in developing and running activities. You are able to offer information and support to young people regarding their relationships, sexuality, and gender identity. You may deal with many issues at each session, including offering referrals to other organisations. You must be able to communicate with a broad range of clients, with diverse identities, and you must be able to connect quickly and in a non-judgemental way with many different young people.
You will be confident, knowledgeable of issues faced by LGBTQIA+ young people and barriers they face, supportive of them and competent to deliver a high quality, responsive service.
This post will require evening and weekend work, and flexible working hours to suit young people.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
LGBTQIA+ Youth Worker
Deadline for applications: noon, 21th June 2023
Interviews: Spectra is utilising a dynamic recruitment process whereby any promising applicants can be contacted as soon as their application is received and invited for interview. Please therefore submit your application as soon as possible and do not wait until the ultimate deadline.
Sex Worker Support Project – Case Worker
Salary: £29,824 per annum FTE, 3 days a week (£17,892 per annum) plus pension contribution
Location: London
Spectra is seeking a Sex Worker Support Project Case Worker for a new and exciting project for the boroughs of Richmond and Wandsworth.
The post holder will manage a Sex Worker-specific advocacy service, this will include the delivery of casework. You will have a good understanding of the health and well-being needs of sex workers, an understanding of access barriers in underserved groups, and how to engage and deliver a service effectively with people who need advocacy support.
Ideally the post-holder will have 2+ years’ experience in working with marginalised groups within service provider settings, e.g., sex work, domestic violence, homeless organisations, and experience of direct work with sex workers.
To better serve marginalised communities we currently particularly welcome applications from people with experience of sex work and/or those with key language skills (ideally Brazilian Portuguese or Romanian).
The role will be based at Spectra CIC in Ladbroke Grove, working in South West London remotely, including some anti-social hours.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
Sex Worker Support Project Case Worker Job Description
Deadline for applications: noon, 6th April 2023
Interview date: Week commencing 17th April 2023
HIV Prevention Coordinator (GMI Partnership)
Salary: £28,950 p.a. pro rata equating to £23,160 p.a. plus pension contribution
Location: London
Spectra CIC delivers health and well-being services in London. As part of the GMI Partnership*, Spectra delivers outreach and screening targeted at Gay, Bisexual and Men who have Sex with Men (GBMSM) and other target groups in London.
The post holder will coordinate and provide information-based sexual health outreach services, HIV testing, training and brief HIV prevention interventions in commercial venues and at events across London, targeting people who may be at higher risk of HIV and STI acquisition.
You will have a good understanding of the sexual health and broader health and well-being needs and behaviours of GBMSM and other target groups and engage with them in a non-judgemental way. You will have a working knowledge of Office programmes including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
To better serve marginalised communities we currently particularly welcome applications from people of colour and/or those with key language skills.
The role will be based at Spectra CIC in Ladbroke Grove, working across London venues.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
GMI HIV Prevention Coordinator Job Description
Deadline for applications: noon, 9th December 2022
Interview date: Week commencing 12th December 2022
Independent Health Advocate – Trans Health Advocacy Service
Salary: £28,560 per annum FTE, 4 days a week (£22, 848), plus pension contribution.
Location: London.
Spectra’s Trans Health Advocacy Service is looking for a new Independent Health Advocate to join our team. You’ll work 4 days per week alongside our small, close-knit team to develop this unique London-based service amplifying the voices of trans and nonbinary people in healthcare settings.
If you’re a confident communicator and compassionate listener with a passion for addressing healthcare inequality, this is the role for you!
Work Includes:
• Independent client-led advocacy casework helping trans* people develop informed plans, challenge decisions, and navigate pathways to improve mental, physical, and transition-related healthcare access
• Maintaining a caseload of London-based trans people who have experienced barriers in accessing health care services
• Helping clients’ voices be heard by negotiating with healthcare providers, facilitating complaints, accompanying clients to appointments, doing research, co-working with other agencies at the client’s direction, and more
• Developing relationships with grassroots community and healthcare providers to improve access to services for trans people
• Co-creation and -facilitation of resources/training to improve the UK trans community’s access to healthcare nationally
• Undertaking training, reflective practice, and optional advocacy qualifications
Ideally the post holder will have two years’ experience in working within LGBTQ+ settings, in a support/ case work capacity.
To better serve the communities we work with, we seek people with lived experience and particularly welcome applications from trans people from migrant communities.
The role will involve working at Spectra CIC in Ladbroke Grove, working from home, and accompanying clients to appointments in London.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
Independent Health Advocate Job Description
Open Recruitment. The interviews will take place on an invitational basis.
Trans Learning Partnership (TLP) Programme Manager
Salary: £38,000 FTE for 5 days per week, plus pension contribution
The Trans Learning Partnership (TLP) is a collaborative project between Gendered Intelligence, LGBT Foundation, Mermaids, and Spectra (lead partner – where this position will be based), created in 2018. Our aim is to undertake participatory, community-led research, and use this to improve services and policy-making for trans people and their families.
The Trans Learning Partnership is seeking a Programme Manager to drive and deliver the work programme and stated outcomes of the TLP.
The post holder will be a strong programme manager, with experience of delivering projects in the charity/third sector, and experience of managing staff. You will be confident liaising with the partners, steering and advisory groups, and funders; and in presenting the work and vision of the TLP via formal reports and less formal presentations.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about challenging structural inequalities, knowledgeable on the intersecting issues facing trans people in the UK right now, and committed to making a real difference.
We particularly welcome trans applicants, and trans people of colour.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
TLP Programme Manager
Deadline for applications: noon, 22nd May 2023
Interviews: Spectra is utilising a dynamic recruitment process whereby any promising applicants can be contacted as soon as their application is received and invited for interview. Please therefore submit your application as soon as possible and do not wait until the ultimate deadline.
Trans Health Advocacy Service Coordinator
Salary: Full time, £33,000 per annum plus pension contribution
Location: London
Spectra CIC delivers health and well-being services in London. The post holder will manage a trans health-specific advocacy service, this will include the delivery of casework, developing and running advocacy workshops for trans communities and healthcare providers, and supervision of a small team of advocates.
You will have a good understanding of the health and well-being needs of trans communities, an understanding of access barriers in underserved groups within trans communities, and how to engage and deliver a service effectively with people who need advocacy support. This can be through experience gained in grass roots, community or statutory services.
You will have a good working knowledge of Office programmes including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
To better serve marginalised communities we currently particularly welcome applications from trans people of colour and/or those with key language skills.
The role will be a combination of working online and at the Spectra CIC office in Ladbroke Grove.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
Trans Health Advocacy Service Coordinator Job Description
Deadline for applications: noon, 9th December 2022
Interview date: Week commencing 12th December 2022
Trans Counselling Service Lead
Salary: £32,500 per annum plus pension contribution
Part-time post: pro-rata 3 days per week
Location: London
Spectra CIC delivers counselling services across London. The post holder will manage Spectra’s Trans Counselling Service. This will include the delivery of counselling sessions, client allocations, clinical audit, service development and waiting list management. In addition, liaison with members of the counselling team.
You will have a good understanding of the health and well-being needs of trans communities, an understanding of access barriers in underserved groups within trans communities, and how to engage and deliver a service effectively with people who want to engage with counselling.
You will have a good working knowledge of Office programmes including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
To better serve marginalised communities we currently particularly welcome applications from trans people of colour and/or those with key language skills.
The role offers a combination of working online and within Spectra’s clinical hubs across London.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
Trans Counselling Service Lead Job Description
Deadline for applications: noon, 2nd December 2022
NB this is an active recruitment. Spectra will review applications as we receive them and interview candidates that match our requirements, appointing immediately if they are successful.
Data Assistant
Salary: £27,332 FTE p/a (pro rata for 2.5 days per week) plus pension contribution
Spectra is seeking a Data Assistant to work with the Research and Performance Manager at Spectra, with a data and analysis remit across all services.
This is an exciting new role, created to support the growing role of data collection, processing and analysis within Spectra, as our services have expanded and diversified over time.
The postholder will have experience of data handling, processing and analysis, including data protection and confidentiality frameworks. You will be working with data from across all of our service – outreach, testing, counselling, groups, advocacy and individual projects. These focus on marginalised groups and/or those who are most disadvantaged by health and other inequalities eg LGBTQ+, migrants, people of colour, people living with HIV.
If you feel passionately about addressing inequalities and have a mission to support and empower people, we want to hear from you.
Spectra is based in Ladbroke Grove, London. Home working is negotiable, or you may work from our London office.
Please complete and return the application form, including the personal statement and diversity monitoring form – we do not accept CVs or incomplete applications.
Data Assistant Role Description
Deadline for applications: noon, 17th November 2022
Interview date: Week commencing 21st November 2022
Community Participatory Group Peer Coordinator (Trans and Non-binary)
Volunteer pay: £13.53 per hour
Our Trans Programme participatory evaluation group is designed to recognise and include our peer trans and non-binary service users as important stakeholders in service improvement and evaluation.
We are currently recruiting a Volunteer Peer Coordinator and the main purpose of the role is:
1. Provide admin and support for people from across the transgender spectrum for the participatory evaluation group. These duties may include chairing peer workshops, organising research surveys and questionnaires, and facilitating the presentation of research findings.
2. Being an ‘expert by experience’ and using this experience to guide and advise others to clarify and navigate their research and to encourage and support them in those choices.
3. To provide coaching and support to peer researchers where necessary.
To arrange an informal chat about this Volunteer opportunity, please contact the Trans Programme Manager at serana@spectra-london.org.uk
The posts are for paid volunteer work; you will be compensated by working hours which may take place at various times – weekday/weekends, daytime and evening with plenty of options of when to work.
Please find more details in the job description.
Peer Volunteer Participatory Evaluation Group Lead Role Description
Please complete and return the application form and diversity monitoring form, including the personal statement. No CVs please.The interviews will take place on an invitational basis.
Volunteer Trans (including Non-Binary) Social Group Facilitators
Volunteer pay: £13.53 per hour
Do you want to support other trans people, involving them in sharing their skills with others and reducing isolation in a supportive, fun and engaging way?
Would you like to support trans people to reconnect with the wider community, access support and workshops and meet other people?
If so, this could be for you!
Main Tasks include: Co-facilitating a monthly peer social group for trans and non-binary individuals. Encouraging service users to share their skills, thoughts, experiences and to bring their ideas for workshops or speakers and ensuring the smooth running of events and activities.
The role involves working at venues across London as well as online.
The posts are for paid volunteer work; you will be compensated by working hours which may take place at various times – weekday/weekends, daytime and evening with plenty of options of when to work.
Please find more details in the job description.
Social Group Facilitator Role Description
Please complete and return the application form and diversity monitoring form, including the personal statement. No CVs please.The interviews will take place on an invitational basis.
Outreach Worker
Sessional pay: £13.53 per hour
Do you have the confidence to approach strangers and discuss a subject that’s probably the last thing on their minds?
Yes!
Then you can help people make healthier choices about their health and well-being, including their sexual health and well-being, mental health and issues around gender. You will be given training in this and more, and as a community tester for our peer-led HIV & STI testing service.
The role is based at Spectra’s office in Ladbroke Grove, and involves working across London, particularly North West and South West boroughs.
The posts are for sessional work. Shifts take place at various times – weekday/weekends, daytime and evening with plenty of options of when to work. Please find more details in the job description.
Outreach Worker Role Description
Please complete and return the application form and diversity monitoring form, including the personal statement. No CVs please.The interviews will take place on an invitational basis.
Volunteer Counsellor (working with LGBTQI+ clients)
Spectra CIC is seeking volunteer counsellors who are as a minimum on a Level 4 Equivalent counselling course, are a member of a recognised governing body i.e BACP/UKCP and who have the skills to deliver counselling to LGBTQI+ people.
If you feel passionately about addressing health inequalities and have the ability to empower LGBTQI+ people, we would love to hear from you.
You will support the delivery of individual counselling service, seeing 4 clients a week. You will have an excellent understanding of the mental, sexual, and broader health and well-being needs of LGBTQI+ people, and experience of working with people of diverse sexualities and gender identities. Ideally you identify as LGBTQI+.
Spectra will provide you with case management support and bi-weekly group supervision on Fridays.
Volunteer Counsellor Role Description
