Passionate professionals connecting with children and young people
The Role of the School Health Team
The role of the School Health Team is incredibly diverse and is able to draw on highly qualified and experienced practitioners to deliver a vast array of skilled nursing interventions. It is a role with a very clear and definitive overriding goal, which is to support and guide our children and young people to make the right choices in life about their health and emotional wellbeing. The level of service delivery of the team is based on assessed need and the objectives that drive the School Health Teams are very much in line with the objectives that drive schools, the Local Education Authority and Ofsted.
Healthy, happy, safe pupils are more likely to attend school, enjoy learning and achieve their full potential.
A Highly Qualified Team
City Health Care Partnership CIC Community Interest Company (CHCP CIC) has three School Health Teams based in the north, west and east of Hull supporting school-aged children and their families in the community. School Health Teams are guided by Government Health Policy, the local Safeguarding Children’s Board and CHCP CIC’s own stringent policies and procedures. The members of the School Health Team have a wide range of relevant qualifications including:
- Registered General Nurse (RGN)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (degree)
- Specialist Practitioner Public Health (portfolio)
The Hull School Health Team delivers services to all Hull schools under two distinct headings:
- The Universal School Health service
- School Health+
Standards and guidance
The Department of Health National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services establishes clear standards for promoting the health and wellbeing of children and young people and provides high quality services which meet their needs.
All members of CHCP CIC’s School Health Team operate under Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) code of conduct, which outlines the standards for practice, confidentiality and ethics required to maintain professional registration for nurses and midwives.
All City Health Care Partnership CIC services are underpinned by evidence and research-based principles for early interventions, community-based care and the promotion of healthy lifestyles. The organisation has strong inter-agency links and well established lines of communication with a range of NHS health care providers including hospital consultants and clinicians, accident and emergency teams and many other specialists.
The organisation operates under:
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance procedures
- Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) that regulates services which care for children and young people, and those providing education and skills for learners of all ages
- 'You're Welcome' – The Department of Health quality criteria for young people-friendly health services that improve the suitability of health services for young people
- The National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services’ standards for promoting the health and wellbeing of children and young people and for providing high quality services which meet their needs
- Licensed with the Care Quality Commission
- Making Every Contact Count - a region-wide programme that ensures NHS staff are trained and helps people stay healthy and reduce system-wide costs to the NHS
- Local Authority 'Early Intervention' strategy
- Investors in People
- Significant professional indemnity
"The work that has been done has helped us make very rapid progress in attendance, behaviour and attitudes to learning. Having a key worker on site as part of our team has made a significant difference."
- Dr Cathy Taylor, Principal, Sirius Academy