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The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the identified work role.
This includes knowledge of:organisational policies and procedures and legislation or regulations relating to:- client confidentiality- referral, including various levels of urgency, and follow-up of clients- mandatory reporting- notifiable communicable diseases- limits of own ability and authority- reporting procedures- documentationinfluences on the development of sexuality, such as gender, spiritual and cultural values, kinship practices, individual ethics and socialisation.past and present sexual trends within Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal contextssexual physiology and the human sexual responsethe influence on human sexuality and sexual response of factors such as:- disability - domestic violence - rapehealthy sexual behaviours and attitudes and practices that may interfere with sexual health and emotional wellbeing including:- safer sex practices and barriers to same- influence of alcohol and other drug use on sexual behaviourspurpose of contraception and available optionssexually transmissible infections, including:- description/definition, statistics, signs and symptoms, universal precautions, common STIs, notifiable STIs- history of STIs in the Aboriginal community and effects of STIs on the community- transmission, testing and complications related to STIs- impact on the ability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to have children- contact tracing/ partner notification- available ways to prevent, manage and/or treat these diseasesrisk factors for contracting STIs/HIV, including:- relationship between STIs and increased risk of contracting HIV- unprotected anal, vaginal and oral sex, receptive and insertive- partners, mother to baby, blood to blood- unsafe drug injectionimportance of confidentiality, the limits to confidentiality and addressing this in a community.