The Government’s Sexual Health and HIV Strategy (2001) highlighted that Sexual Health Advisers are an important group “who have a pivotal role in partner management, information provision, and liaison between community sexual health provision and GUM services.” The strategy highlighted the need to better define the roles and responsibilities of health advisers, including the development of a health advising qualification. Health Advisers also have a key role in implementation of NICE guidance “One to one interventions to reduce the transmission of sexual transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV, and to reduce the rate of under 18 conceptions, especially among vulnerable and at risk groups.

This year’s SSHA conference was held in Brighton on the weekend of September 11th. Click here to download the programme and presentations.

Stigma and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Are attitudes towards people with sexually transmitted infections as punitive as they are perceived to be?

A complete round-up of recent research topics that all Sexual Health Advisers should have read

 A Principal will be appointed with the same essential qualifications and previous knowledge/ relevant experience as a senior health adviser but will also have:

A Senior will be appointed with the same essential qualifications and previous knowledge/relevant experience as a health adviser but will also have:

To provide advice, information, education and counselling to patients diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea, herpes, syphilis and hepatitis B & C.

Trainees will be appointed with the same essential qualifications as a health adviser but they may be lacking some of the previous knowledge/ relevant experience. Trainee posts should only be for six months (full time), this time will provide the experience and supervision required for a health adviser
ACCOUNTABLE TO – Clinical Issues to the Consultant in GUM/ HIV
MANAGERIALLY RESPONSIBLE TO:- Senior /Health Adviser where they are in post or a relevant senior member of staff e.g. a clinic manager
JOB SUMMARY

To provide advice, information, education and counselling to patients diagnosed with …

How do we do what we do with patients and how can we do it better?
2000
James Monteith, Jo Greenaway, David Owen – Health Advisers
Central Middlesex Hospital
Acton Lane
London, NW10 7NS
Tel: 0208 453 2220
Email: joanne.greenaway@cmh-tr.nthames.nhs.uk
Summary of research topic:
“Is Health Advising just a job or does it have the characteristics of a profession? Are Health Advisers merely ancillary workers for the medical profession carrying out a delegated range of tasks, or do they have a coherent way of conceptualising their role in a way that relates theory to practice, and which betokens a …

A Literature Review and Research Proposal to Explore the Attitudes and Opinions of Teenagers to Safer Sex
30.03.00
Jean Beard, Health Adviser
GUM Clinic
Royal Glamorgan Hospital
Ynysmaerdy,
Llantrisant
South Wales CF72 8XR
Tel: 01443 443597
If the research work is complete, when was it completed?
May 1999
If the research has been published, please give details:
The dissertation was submitted as part of the requirements for the M.Sc. in Reproductive and Sexual Health Studies. It was presented to the annual Welsh MSSVD Conference and to the Welsh Office Development and Research Bureau.
Summary of research topic:
The aim of the literature review …