Children, Young People and Families Worker

14 hours per week.

Salary - NJC SCP 18 [£30,559 pro rata, £12,223 actual]

The purpose of this role is to deliver high quality services to children and young people living with HIV, working alongside the paediatric HIV team at North Manchester General Hospital. Support young adults to transition into adult HIV care and treatment services.

You will find a recruitment pack with a detailed person specification and job description here.

You can apply for this role in writing in MS Word format [or similar - please don’t PDF your application]. In no more than 2,000 words, tell us why you want to work for George House Trust, what you would bring to the role, and how you meet the key areas of focus for the role, taking into account the Person Specification you will find in the recruitment pack together with an up-to-date copy of your CV.

Please also complete and submit our demographic monitoring form which you can find here. The form will be stored separately from your application and will not be used as part of the shortlisting process. 

We are actively encouraging applications from people living with HIV for this role.

Your completed application and CV. should be submitted to recruitment@ght.org.uk by 5pm on Monday 6 January 2025.

Interviews will be held in early January 2025. 

George House Trust is a Disability Confident, Living Wage and Open To All employer. 

Accessing hair and beauty is everyone’s right

On World AIDS Day 2024, George House Trust launch the UK’s first HIV and Beauty guide for professionals working in the hair and beauty industries.

Understanding HIV A guide for hair and beauty professionals [PDF] is a collaboration between George House Trust and top beauty industry expert and educator, Sam Marshall.

It is designed to empower hair and beauty professionals to become fully HIV-inclusive businesses. It provides up-to-date HIV facts and science with best practice guidelines to support and educate hair and beauty practitioners about HIV and how to eliminate HIV discrimination in hair and beauty settings.

By raising awareness of the facts around HIV, this guide aims to end discrimination within the beauty, hair and barbering industry and to help reduce HIV stigma in wider society.

Darren Knight, Chief Executive of George House Trust said:

“We are proud to partner with Sam Marshall to develop this important guide for the beauty industry. Someone’s HIV status must never be a barrier to accessing beauty services.

We want to support the beauty industry to improve understanding around HIV and provide an effective toolkit for the whole industry. We found from our research that 52% of people have been refused a treatment due to their HIV status and this shows there is still unnecessary and unacceptable stigma attached to living with HIV, and a lack of awareness around the advances in treatment and what that means for people living with HIV.

We hope that by launching this HIV and Beauty Guide, we will bring the issue to the forefront, across this sector and beyond.”

Sam Marshall, The Beauty Guru said:

“I’m delighted to have spearheaded the UK’s first HIV Beauty Guide alongside George House Trust. It will help us move towards a more inclusive industry, something I’m extremely passionate about.

I implore all beauty professionals to put the guide into practice, in particular removing the HIV status questionnaire from the consultation process. Beauty practitioners do not need to know someone’s HIV status to undertake beauty, hair, or cosmetic procedures, even those that produce blood or are considered invasive.

Thanks to effective treatment, people living with HIV cannot pass it on. Additionally, universal hygiene protocols (which should be standard practice in any professional salon) will eliminate the risk of any blood-borne virus being transmitted.

As an inclusive beauty salon, we would never ask clients for their status as it is irrelevant and unnecessary. Beauty is for everyone and we believe that everyone who wants to access beauty services should feel comfortable in doing so.”

Download the guide [PDF].

Find out more about our HIV and Beauty work.

A formula for success

Liverpool City Council partners with George House Trust to provide free infant formula to mothers living with HIV. 

Liverpool City Council is collaborating with HIV support charity George House Trust to support the City’s bold ambition of ending new HIV diagnoses by 2030, as part of its commitment to the global Fast-Track Cities initiative.

There are currently 901 people living with HIV in Liverpool, which is relatively low compared to other similar core cities. Over the last 10 years, the city’s testing rate has doubled (increase of 111%), and late diagnosis rates are falling. This is good news and means that many people are testing sooner, and that more people are being supported into treatment and care as early as possible. 

Thanks to funding from Liverpool City Council, the Public Health team will work closely with George House Trust to ensure babies born to mothers living with HIV have access to free infant formula. This initiative eliminates the small risk of HIV transmission through breastfeeding and provides much-needed reassurance to families. 

Due to advances in HIV treatment and care, the number of babies born with HIV has dropped significantly in recent years. Providing free infant formula not only protects newborns, but also alleviates the financial burden on families, especially in the context of rising living costs. 

The British HIV Association (BHIVA) recommends exclusive infant formula feeding to prevent HIV transmission through breastmilk. While cases of HIV transmission to babies in the UK are extremely rare, this initiative further supports Liverpool’s ambition to achieve zero new HIV diagnoses by 2030. 

New mothers will be referred to George House Trust by their midwife or HIV consultant and infant formula will be provided from birth until the baby is 12 months old. 

The scheme is live now and builds on George House Trust’s existing services in Liverpool, including one-to-one support, counselling, peer mentoring, and group activities. 

For more information, contact Alex Sparrowhawk, HIV Advice, Support, and Information Services Manager, at 0161 546 3538 or alex@ght.org.uk. 

Councillor Harry Doyle, Liverpool’s Cabinet Member for Culture, Health and Wellbeing, said: 

 “We are proud to launch this vital initiative. Over recent years, Liverpool has made significant strides in tackling HIV, from improving access to testing, to ensuring excellent care and support. This is another example of how our Fast-Track Cities partnership is delivering projects that make a real difference to our communities.” 

Director of Public Health for Liverpool, Professor Matthew Ashton, said: 

“We are absolutely committed to ending all new transmissions of HIV in Liverpool by 2030. We have an ambitious plan to prevent new cases, and to support people with HIV to live well. This initiative will reduce onward transmission and is an innovative way to provide much needed support to mothers living with HIV in our City”. 

Darren Knight, George House Trust Chief Executive, said: 

“We are delighted our new service will provide free infant formula for HIV positive mums in Liverpool, giving mother and baby the best start in life. George House Trust’s partnership with Liverpool City Council means HIV positive parents don’t have to be concerned about HIV transmission and can enjoy a worry-free life with their newborn babies.” 

Maria [not her real name], a mum receiving infant formula via George House Trust said: 

“Free infant formula has given me more confidence when feeding my baby. The programme has been more than financial support for me, it provides psychological support because I know that by choosing to use formula my baby will stay HIV negative.”