Workforce Education: Hep Professional Development

Our comprehensive one-day workshop is for people wanting to genuinely engage clients and communities around hepatitis C.

Most of these workshops will be delivered in partnership with people from clinical services and the community. The workshops are interactive and aim to strengthen your local networks, encourage more clients into testing and treatment, reduce discrimination and give a better understanding of our communities that are affected by hep C.

At the end of the day, you will:

• Know the difference between hepatitis A, B and C
• Discuss confidently the new hep C treatment range of “Direct Acting Antivirals”
• Navigate & build on local hep C testing and new treatment pathways
• Describe national harm reduction strategies and map local prevention options
• Identify and address discriminatory barriers to health care.
• Support people making informed decisions around their hep C and starting treatment.
• Be Inspired! Hear someone’s first-hand experience of hep C. 

This advanced intensive is designed to strengthen your organisational capacity in responding to your client’s needs around hepatitis C.

These short tailored in-services last around 1-3 hours and are ideal for offering staff in your workplace up-to-date information about hepatitis B and C, current best practices and addressing specific hep knowledge or skill gaps you may have identified.

This in-service will benefit your staff and organisation by:

• Building the skills and knowledge of your team
• Increasing confidence to achieve better outcomes for people accessing your services
• Improving the services and support offered to people affected by hepatitis B or C in NSW

We’ll work with you to ensure the in-service meets the specific needs of your workplace using engaging activities and education tools.

What Do You Learn? 

In-service sessions are structured in modules. Our programs are delivered at your organisation and requires a minimum of 6 participants. In-services can include a C-een and Heard speaker when a minimum of 1½ hours are allocated.

Modules covered your staff about a variety of hepatitis B and C related topics including:

• Differences between hep A, B and C
• Hep B and C testing
• Treatment for hepatitis B and C
• Transmission / prevention
• Illness outcomes
• Harm minimisation & reduction
• Prevalence and priority populations
• Self-management
• Organisational planning for hep C service delivery
• Discrimination / inclusion
• Hep B and C support services / referral info
• HIV / Hep B co-infection