Healthcare providers who undertake partner notification on a regular basis are often sexual health professionals who work in this specialty area. In Australia most of these are registered nurses who have the capacity to offer testing in the community when undertaking partner notification, which can be extremely beneficial particularly for those partners who may have difficulty accessing or attending clinical services. Aboriginal health workers can also assist in partner notification in communities where First Nations people reside and are particularly important in rural and remote communities where they have connections to the community, as well as health expertise.  

Partner notification specialist nurses often have additional skills and qualifications, such as postgraduate training in mental health, psychology or psychiatric nursing that enable them to make psychological assessments of both index patients and their partners. This helps to ensure the physical safety and psychological well-being of all involved in the partner notification process. These skills also promote the rapid establishment of trust in a stressful situation, especially if a partner notified of an HIV exposure, is asymptomatic and unaware of their risk.