Homerton School Nursing Service
Service details
Who are we?
Homerton School Nursing Service is a service for maintained (Local Authority Funded) schools, PRUs (Pupil Referral Units) and academies in Hackney and the City of London.
The school Health service allocates a School Nurse per school setting, and they deliver the Healthy Child Programme in Line with the ages 5-19 (up to 25 with SEND) framework.
What do we do?
Homerton School Nursing Service provides the following support to children and young people from reception class through to leaving school:
• New Entry Health Assessments
• Support for children with disabilities and/or additional health needs
• Referral to specialist services
• A prioritised safeguarding health offer for vulnerable, school age children.
• Development of Individual Healthcare Plans (IHCP) for all children with medical needs.
• A training offer for school and early years’ staff.
• Delivery of a universal, preventative early help, health support offer, eg. Drop ins, parent evenings and health fairs etc.
Service information for parents and young people is available here:
Our role in Health assessments
National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) and School Health Entry Check for children entering reception year:
• Height
• Weight
• Hearing
• Vision
National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) service for children in Year 6:
• Height
• Weight
Our universal, preventative health support offer
This services also delivers a universal, preventative health offer that maximises the physical and mental health and wellbeing of school aged children in maintained schools. This may include health talks on issues such as:
• puberty (growing up) maintaining good hygiene
• exercise and healthy eating
• having healthy relationships with friends
• drop-in service for young people in secondary school
Our role in Safeguarding Children
We also offer a prioritised, safeguarding school health service to children of school age identified as:
• Children in Need (CIN)
• Children on Child Protection plans, and
• Children identified as ‘vulnerable’ in terms of safeguarding
The team work in partnership other appropriate services such as Social Care and schools to ensure children are kept safe.
Supporting children with medical needs, disabilities or additional health needs
The service provides a range of care for children with disabilities and/or medical condition in partnership with both special and mainstream schools. Support may include:
• Assistance for maintained schools to meet the school health needs of children with disabilities and additional needs.
• The development of Individual Healthcare Plans for all children with medical needs, attending maintained educational settings aged 5-19 years (25)
• Training for school staff and early year’s settings to increase their understanding of and confidence in supporting children with health conditions including asthma, epilepsy, anaphylaxis and diabetes.
Onward referral to specialist services
Our school nurses can refer any child who might require more specialist support for medical assessment or to be seen by one of our specialist services.
These may include:
• Speech and language therapy
• CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) the NHS services that assess and treat young people with emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties.
• Children’s Social Care
• CHYPS (City and Hackney's Young Peoples Services) Plus
• Dietician
• Hackney Young Carers
• Off Centre –Young People's Counselling service
• Sexual Health Services
• Young Hackney Services
How to contact us
The service working hours are 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday Term Time only.
The school's named school nurse is available to discuss any concerns about health provision for children in schools settings. They are able to work with you to resolve any issues.
If you have any questions please contact the service and someone will respond as soon as possible.
For general enquiries please contact us using our secure email which is checked Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm huh-tr.schoolnursescentralcontact@nhs.net
Homerton's School Nursing Service Administration Phone Number 020 7683 4991
Lead School Nurse Elmedina.baptista-mendes1@nhs.net
Team Twitter @HUHSchoolNurse
Notes
Immunisations
The school immunisations programme is delivered by Vaccination UK dedicated Immunisations Team
Phone 0333 800 5100
SEND Local Offer
- Local Offer Age Bands
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Primary 4 -10
Secondary 11-14
Preparing for Adulthood 14-18
Parents and Carers - SEN Provision Type
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- Targeted
- Specialist
Who to contact
- Telephone
- 0207 683 4991 0207 683 4991
- Huh-tr.schoolnursescentralcontact@nhs.net
- Website
- www.homerton.nhs.uk/.../school-nursing-service
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Where to go
- Venue Notes
This is a school based service.
Time / Date Details
- Session Information
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School Nurse service is available term time only
Safeguarding advice and support is available throughout the year
Other details
- Who is eligible?
School aged 5 to 18 year olds who attend mainstream schools or academy settings.
School Aged children and young people aged 5 to 19 years old for the Healthy Child Programme
Young people attending mainstream schools aged 19 to 25 if they have an Education Health Care Plan.
Referrals to the School Health Service may be made as a self-referral from parents or by schools, hospital staff, GPs and other health and social care professionals
For questions about individual children please contact the service on our secure email.
- Referral required?
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Yes
- Referral Details
A referral form is available in the download section of this page.
- What to do if you have a complaint
Complaints can be made to a clinician or manager in the service or alternatively through the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS).
The service can be contacted on 020 8510 7315
- Can parents & young people buy this service as part of their SEND personal budget?
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Yes
- SEND Personal Budget - Notes
- SEND Personal Budgets are an option for children and young people using this service particularly those in Special School's with complex care needs. SEND Personal Budgets could be an option for children using this service who have medical needs and are receiving tuition because of these.
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