Walsall teaching Primary Care Trust

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• Walsall teaching Primary Care Trust
• School Health Teams
• Sallyann Sutton
• Team Leader School Health
• Specialist practitioner School Nursing

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Aim of service

• To enable school aged children and young people
  to achieve their full potential physically,
  socially and emotionally.

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Service Structure

• Service provided by Walsall teaching Primary Care
  Trust
• 4 localities North, South, East and West.
• Service headed by a specialist advisor who has
  operational responsibility.
• One school health team in each locality providing
  a service for a corporate caseload

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Core roles

• Health Education/promotion
• Vulnerable children e.g.
• Safeguarding (child protection)
• Looked after children
• Behavioural and emotional problems
• Children with medical needs/complex needs
• Immunisations
• Public health priorities (e.g. mental health)

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Supporting Children with medical needs

• Supporting children with medical needs
• in schools.
• Liaison between home/school/health services
• Education/training on medical conditions
• Provision of care plans for children with medical
  needs

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Supporting children who are on the Code of
Practice.

• Involvement might be
• With children who require investigations to
  consider medical/health problems
• Children with behavioural/emotional difficulties
  which impact on home life as well as school.
• Liaison between home/school and health services.

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Accessing the school health team

• Each school has a link SH team member
• This will normally be the person who attends your
  IPM
• Directly via the team leader
• Using the referral forms

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Referrals

• All referrals made on a referral form
• In consultation with and the consent of parents
• Discussed, prioritised and allocated at weekly
  meeting
• Allocated to team member with the most
  appropriate skills and knowledge.
• Individual needs are assessed and care planned
  based on best evidence and practice.
• Audit