Health Visiting
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Health visitors are qualified nurses who have undergone additional training in community public health nursing. There are also community health nurses, nursery nurses, an oral health promoter and clinical support workers within the teams. Health visitors work closely within the community with families with young children (0-5 years old) to offer support and advice from pre-birth until they enter school full time. The health visiting service provides a crucial service to children and families to promote health and reduce health inequalities by offering advice and guidance as needed. If you would like to talk to a nurse or health visitor in the health visiting team, please contact the duty line on 0300 123 3444, between Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
To find out more, simply click the boxes below to see what help is available.
For bookings please call the duty desk on 0300 123 3444
Healthy Start Vouchers are changing from paper to a pre-paid card
If you are in receipt of Healthy Start Vouchers you must apply for the new pre-paid card now as paper ones will no longer be available from 31st March 2022. You can use any existing paper vouchers until their expiry date.
If you are over 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to certain vitamins free and help to buy healthy food and milk. To see if you are eligible and find out more.
What does a health visitor do
Provided by UK national health authority
And so to bed – sleep training
This session is for children from 10 months. If your child is under 10 months, take a look at our useful links where you’ll find BASIS or ‘helping your baby sleep’
Parenting and children’s behaviour course
If your child is under 2.5 years, this session is not appropriate for you, however, you may wish to access Sollihill on our useful links with password: Invicta.
Toilet training for under 5 years
If your child is under 2.5 years, they may not be ready for Toilet training as anything up until 3 is normal for toilet readiness. However, there are many things you can begin to do to help with Toilet Training from a baby.
If you need support with toilet training, please see our online workshop. You may also wish to look at ERIC website. Please implement the recommendations within our toileting workshop for 3 months before calling our duty desk on 0300 123 3444 for further support if toileting is unsuccessful. Please note that it is normal for night-time wetting until the age of 5.
Published on: 9 January, 2025
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