Richard Williams
Lead Health Adviser
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
Southlands Hospital:                
01273 455622 ext 3982
Richard.Williams@wsht.nhs.uk

Richard has worked as a Health Adviser since 1995 and is currently Lead for West Sussex.  He has a degree in Sociology and Politics, is a registered nurse and has a Post Graduate Certificate in Health and Social Care Education.
Richard has given presentations to BASHH including, in 2009, a Post HIV Diagnosis Structured Interview, which covers a range of topics for HIV positive patients such as wellbeing, criminalisation, PEPSE, partner notification and testing children.
Special interests include education and …

Belfast Health & Social Care Trust.
G.U.M. Clinic
Level 3 Outpatients,
Royal Victoria Hospital
Grosvenor Road
Belfast
BT12 6BA
maeve.cross@belfasttrust.hscni.net
 
Maeve is regional rep for Ireland. She works as a health adviser in the GUM clinic in Belfast. She has worked in sexual health for nine years. Maeve started as a nurse and moved over to health advising in 2006. She am in process of completing a Diploma in counselling.

 
Dept. of Sexual Health
Trafford General Hospital
Moorside Road
Davyhulme
M41 5SL
0161 746 2268
Justine.Mellor@trafford.nhs.uk

 
 
Justine has been employed as a Sexual Health Advisor since 2003 and currently works at the Trinity Centre for Sexual Health at Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. Her background prior to this was in general nursing, midwifery and she completed the BSc Community healthcare Nursing pathway in 2001.
During her employment in Health Advising she completed a Certificate in Professional Counselling Studies and recently just finished a post Grad Cert in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
She joined the NPC as a regional rep in …

Flat 2/1, 160 Onslow Drive
Dennistoun
Glasgow G31 2PZ
Tel: 01355 584049 Mob: 07766 511 471
David.wilson6@nhs.net

 
David qualified as a RGN in 1986 and worked in A & E in the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow for a couple of years before training as a midwife.
During his 17 years as a midwife his main area of practice was labour ward/community and he worked as a midwife practitioner before managing the Womens Reproductive Health Service led by Mary Hepburn for women with severe drug dependency/social deprivation/BBV issues. During this period, he worked part-time as a nurse and then health adviser for …

Jan Hyland
Health Adviser
Dept of Sexual Health
The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust
Heath Road
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP4 5P
                                      01473 703854
                                      jan.hyland@ipswichhospital.nhs.uk
Qualified as a SRN at The Royal Free Hospital in London in 1975 and worked on Liver, Skins and Intensive care units before moving to Suffolk and qualifying as a Midwife in 1977.
Changed direction into Genito-Urinary Medicine in 1978 starting as a Staff Nurse progressing to Sister then ultimately becoming the Health Adviser in 1994.
Have enjoyed being a SSHA member and being on the NPC. This has given me such a lot of support especially when I …

Paul Madden
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
John Hunter Clinic
St. Stephen’s Centre
Fulham Road
London SW10 9NH
0208 846 6155
paul.madden@chelwest.nhs.uk

2002 – Received a BA in Theology and Psychology from All Hallows College, Dublin
2003/2008 – Worked as a Sexual Health Outreach Worker for 5 years at the Southern Gay Men’s Health Project, Cork.  While at SGMHP Paul’s many tasks involved facilitating groups (personal development courses, HIV positive groups, recovery groups), delivering a diverse range of training  (sexual health, STI, ‘Coming Out’, homophobia workshops) to a large number of groups, one-to-one interventions, sexual health promotion in pubs, clubs …

Linda Furness
Dept of GUM
Cardiff Royal Infirmary
Newport Road
Cardiff CF24 0SZ

Tel: 02920498900
Email: linda.furness@cardiffandvale.wales.nhs.uk

Professional Officer,
SSHA/Health Sector, Unite the Union,
128 Theobald’s Road,
London, WC1X 8TN
Carol.english@unitetheunion.org
0203 371 2013
Work Mobile  07919 324 716

Carol has been with the Health Sector of the Union since 1990 when she worked for the Health Visitors’ Association that soon merged with the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union (MSF).  Following that merger Carol took up responsibilities for doctors and pharmacists and later on for health advisers and health care chaplains also.
The union has since merged to form Amicus, and the most recent merger has created Unite, which is the largest union in the …

 Position Vacant

Jamie Hardie
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
John Hunter Clinic
St. Stephen’s Centre
Fulham Road
London SW10 9NH
020 8846 6168
james.hardie@chelwest.nhs.uk
Jamie was  SSHA President for 5 years and greatly enjoyed the role. He was  honoured that he representt Sexual Health Advisers nationally and takes great pride in promoting Health Advising as a profession wherever possible and working hard on behalf of individual health advisers and SSHA and will continue to do so.

Trained as RGN 1989-1992 -Royal London Hospital
Worked as a Nurse in Sexual Health/HIV at Ambrose King Centre (Royal London Hospital 1992-1997)
Sexual Health Adviser at Patrick Clements Clinic (Central Middlesex Hospital …