Health Visitors

Health Visitors are specially trained nurses and midwives who train for an extra year to become experts in public and community health.

Health visitors are key public health professionals, their role is about prevention, helping children and families to stay healthy and avoid illness. Health visitors aim to support families with children 0 - 5 years old to lead as healthy life as possible both physically and mentally.

Health visitors offer a core Healthy child programme which includes developmental assessments, and health information. They provide advice and support in the home, local clinics, children centres and GP practices.

Health visitors are specially trained nurses and   midwives who train for an extra year to become experts in public and community health.

Health visitors are key public health professionals, their role is about prevention, helping children and families to stay healthy and avoid illness. Health visitors aim to support families with children 0-5 years old to lead as healthy a life as possible both physically and mentally.

Health visitors offer a core Healthy Child  Programme which includes developmental assessments, and health information. They provide advice and support in the home, local clinics, children centres and GP practices.

Health visitors help parents to help their children to develop in every way to their full potential – physically, intellectually, emotionally and educationally.

Health visitors plan and put into place programmes that promote and protect health such as health promotion campaigns and screening programmes.  Health visitors also safeguard children who are being or who are likely to be harmed.

Health visitors provide 4 levels of service: Your Community, Universal, Universal Plus and Universal Partnership Plus.  Below are some of the services you can expect to receive from your health visitor from birth through to when your child is 5 years or enters school:

• Antenatal visits
• New birth visits
• Adjusting to life with a new baby
• 2-2 ½ year review
• Support with feeling low, anxious, possibly depressed
• Advice for families around home safety, housing problems, benefits and unemployment
• Advice for families on diet, healthy lifestyle and immunisations
• Information and support with infant feeding, including weaning
• Guidance, assessment and advice about ‘childhood development’

Health visitors will also show you how you can take full advantage of the range of resources that are available to you locally so you can gain support within your own community.

 

 

Age	0 to 5 years
Cost	From commissioned services
Referral details	Your Health visitor will contact and meet you and your baby within 2 weeks of your baby being born. If you move into the Bolton area your GP will inform the health visitor who will arrange to see you within a month.
Special provisions	Interpreters available on request.
Ofsted report
SEN type	Cognition and learning Behaviour, emotional and social Communication and interaction Sensory or physical
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