Our range of courses are designed to raise awareness and understanding of HIV.

Courses can be tailored to meet your individual needs and will:

• increase your awareness of HIV
• equip you to challenge stigma and prejudice
• improve the quality of services you provide to people who may be living with HIV

As part of our training, we also offer the opportunity to listen to trained speakers who are living with HIV talk about their personal experiences.

We can create a bespoke course to meet your particular needs and budget. This includes the option of a short “pop up” course - ideal for a lunch time session - as well as longer courses.

Topics covered include:

• Routes of HIV transmission
• Exploring attitudes to HIV
• Improving services to people living with HIV
• Latest developments in HIV

Feedback from previous course participants:

‘The best training I have attended for a very long time, informative and uplifting’ - Local Authority Social Worker

‘Lots of in-depth information on HIV to allow us to work with our clients more confidently’ - Health Trainer

"The feedback from all the sessions you ran for us was very positive.  Our girls admired the honesty and openness of both you and Yvonne.  They learnt a lot about how HIV is transmitted but also how damaging the stigma around HIV still is and how important it is for all of us to challenge it." - Teacher 

For more information about course costs and to discuss your training needs in more detail email George House Trust or call 0161 274 5653 

THIS POST IS NOW CLOSED FOR NEW APPLICATIONS

PEER MENTOR CO-ORDINATOR

Job Title: Peer Mentor Co-ordinator – “Better Together” Project

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: NJC scales SCP 26-31, starting salary level SCP 26 - £23,398

Contract: Permanent

Location: Manchester

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and experienced person to lead ”Better Together”, an exciting project funded by the National Lottery, through the Big Lottery Fund.

“Better Together” is a 5 year project which aims to increase peer mentoring support for people living with HIV across Greater Manchester. The Peer Mentor Co-ordinator will work closely with staff at sexual health and HIV clinics to ensure that everyone diagnosed with HIV has the opportunity to access peer mentoring support. They will be responsible for promoting the service, recruiting, training and developing volunteer peer mentors and facilitating matches between mentors and mentees. The project will also bring together local organisations to share best practice in peer mentoring.

“Better Together” will work in partnership with Positively UK’s Project 100 and will work within the new National Standards for HIV Peer Support.

More details about the Peer Mentor Co-ordinator role, including a job description and person specification, can be found in our candidate pack. The application form can also be downloaded here. If you would like a hard copy of the candidate pack and application form by post, please contact: Samuel Clarke on 0161 274 4499 or email: samuel@ght.org.uk

The closing date for this post is 12 noon on Wednesday 3rd May 2017. Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held on the 12th May and 16th May 2017 at George House Trust.

The successful job applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

George House Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We especially welcome applications from groups which reflect George House Trusts’ service user groups – HIV positive people (and other disabled people), gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, people from black and minority ethnic groups, and people from refugee communities.

George House Trust's vision is for all people living in the North West of England to live happy and healthy lives and be free from stigma and discrimination; for all people to know their HIV status and to be HIV aware. Read our Mission and Values here.

DOWNLOAD AN ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS CHART

A one-page reference guide to all the anti-HIV drugs licensed for use in the European Union, with information on formulation, dosing, key side-effects and food restrictions.

The previous edition of the drugs chart is also available to download in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.

Download your copy here

NIGERIA AIDS AGENCY WARNS AGAINST HIV CURE 'PUBLICITY'

The Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Sani Aliyu, has expressed displeasure with the publicity given to the claim of a cure for HIV/AIDS by a Nigerian professor.

Mr. Aliyu, in a statement by his office on Monday, said it was a great disservice to the vulnerable group of HIV patients for the media to disseminate such claims in the absence of scientific evidence.

Read more about the story here