Lesbian and Bi women

This specific role within our sexual health services is here to:

• Focus on health promotion and support by enabling lesbian and bisexual women to access appropriate sexual health services.
• Provide lesbian and bisexual women direct access to sexual health testing, information and advice.
• Be a point of contact for women who have concerns or enquiries around their sexual health and well-being.
• Refer and signpost into related services such as counselling, IDVA (independent domestic violence advocate) and ISVA(independent sexual violence advocate), or other services.
• Identify and challenge real or perceived barriers lesbian and bisexual women may face when accessing healthcare through sexual health promotion and outreach.
• Raise awareness among lesbian and bisexual women on any specific sexual health and support issues that are relevant to them.
• Raise awareness of health inequalities and barriers faced by L & B Women within wider services and address these though training and education.

You can get in touch with our Lesbian & Bisexual Women’s Sexual Health Promotion Worker by calling us on 0121 643 0821 or by email at: sexualhealth@blgbt.org