Who? (East Suffolk staff)
Open to primary care staff based in Suffolk or working with Suffolk patients - GPs, care navigators, receptionists, practice managers, nurses, equality and diversity leads
What?
Training has been designed and informed by those with lived experience and will be delivered by a knowledgeable third sector organisation who works with gender issues. It will be delivered in an interactive format using “real” scenarios.
Aims:
1. To increase participant’s knowledge and skills when working with people who identify as transgender, enabling them to work more confidently and compliantly within current legislation and guidance
2. To challenge participant’s assumptions and perceptions when engaging with people who identify as transgender
Learning Outcomes:
• Able to demonstrate a greater understanding of what it means to be transgender
• Aware of own perceptions when engaging with transgender patients
• Able to apply national equality legislation, policy and guidance to own area of practice
• Able to seek out further information to support referral pathways
• Better able to differentiate between a health issue that relates to transitioning and one that does not and apply this to practice
• Ability to recognise and act on unmet needs in transgender patients that may present as risky behaviour and require further support
Places are on a first come, first serve basis with one place per practice with a reserves list
Participants are requested to have read the online fact sheets and completed the e-learning modules prior to attending the session – Click on this LINK for more information.
Certificate of attendance will be provided on completion of training
