Sexual Health Adviser Careers

WORK ENVIRONMENT:-

Sexual health adviser gives details, suggestion and guidance to the patients diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI). They play a important role in assisting the patients to recognize and deal with their situation.

Being a sexual health adviser, you will work with person and groups who are influenced by sexual health matters in general and STIs (comprising HIV). An important division of your work will be to give opinion to aid prevent and reduce the infection risks.

Your accurate duties can differ significantly between clinics, but you will generally be involved with:

• giving advice to the patients on safety measures to be taken with current partners
• endorsing excellent sexual health practices

• Guiding patients
• Tracing and making a contact with earlier partners who might have been depicted to the STI
• Training and teaching
• Performing research
• Collecting local information
• Remaining advanced with the current health research and policies

You can also be implicated in the national screening program for Chlamydia infection.

QUALIFICATION, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:-

You will generally require experience in nursing, social work, health visiting and counseling. Several employers might acknowledge you with a degree in health science, public health, sociology, psychology or health promotion, if you also have appropriate experience in a health care setting.

Most people become fascinated in this work (and obtain proper experience) by selecting study alternative and organizing work placements associated to sexual health at the same time as training, for instance to turn into a social worker or nurse. See the associated profiles for more information of routes into these and other health professions.

You will frequently require:

• Work experience in health care environment
• Knowledge of HIV, STIs and other issues associated with sexual health
• Identify, counseling, skills, training and practice
• Proficiency in health education and advertising

You might also require or advantage from having qualification in, for instance:

• Health promotion (like Level 2 RSPH Award in Health Promotion)
• Reviewing, training and guiding
• Sexual health care (such as the STI Foundation Course offered by (BASHH))

If you are a skilled nurse, you can be prepared for this work by taking the sexual health advising alternative in a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Program

TRAINING DETAILS:-

Any operating training you require will differ as per your experience and professional background.

As a skilled nurse working in sexual health advice, you might take a postgraduate training at the institution of higher education, probably through the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Program.

Various local Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) presents related courses in counseling skills, sexual health matters, treatments during their sexual health training teams. The website of Society of Sexual Health Adviser and BASHH has additional information and recommendation on training consultation, courses and networking chances.

SKILLS and KNOWLEDGE:-

• Through knowledge of issues related to sexual health
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Task management skills
• Excellent diagnostic and investigate skills
• Self-motivation
• A lenient attitude to care
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Capability of setting up with variety of organizations (private, public and voluntary)
• Sympathy and delicacy
• Admiration of privacy

SALARY AND OTHER BENEFITS:-

Sexual health adviser can take home between around $ 25,000 and $ 33,500 every year.

WORKING CONDITIONS:-

In a permanent job in the NHS, you will usually work 38 hours weekly. Recreational jobs are frequently accessible. You will usually be based in the sexual health clinic or genitor-urinary medicine (GUM), though there can be few outreach work implicated.

DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES:-

Jobs can be promoted in the health service journals, press, on the job site of NHS or directly through NHS Trusts.

With experience, you can progress to the position of sexual health adviser job career. There may be the chances to turn into the sexual health role for a community Primary Care Trust, realizing National Strategy for Sexual Health and HIV at the local level.

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