Zone 5-19 Doncaster School Nursing Service

Overview of the service – Zone 5-19, Doncaster Children and Young People’s Health & Well-being service

Support for Educational Settings

In 2022, School Nursing and Project 3 came together as one team, to be re named as ‘Zone 5-19 Doncaster Children’s and Young People’s health and well-being service’. Now in our 3^rd academic year, we continue to support educational settings across the city of Doncaster offering a diverse range of emotional, social, physical, sexual health, and substance misuse support and advice. We support children, young people and their families aged 5-19yrs (23yrs SEND). In addition, we support Doncaster College and The New College at Hayfield, working closely with other alternative educational provisions when requested.

The core offer of the team is underpinned by The Healthy Child programme (2023) with a primary focus on 6 high impact areas of need.

At the start of each new academic year, schools are offered a School Health Profile (SHP) meeting by their named Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN). This working ‘real time’ document evidences the Public Health profiling of each individual school and the geographical area it sits in. The document is completed by the SCPHN and Head Teacher (or other identified professional in school). Together, this meeting enables schools to make informed choices as to how the holistic health needs of the school population can be met by the School Nursing service based on local and national public health information available to the School Nursing service.

Referrals

All referrals to the team must be made through our Single Point of Contact (SPOC) Telephone 03000 218 997 or by e mail to rdash.doncasterchildrenscaregroup@nhs.net

Within the team we have a dedicated Safeguarding team – ‘Children’s Health & Protection Team’ (CHAP). Staff in this team attend Initial/Review Child Protection conferences (I/RCPC) and work with the child and family if there is an identified role for the nurse.

To be able to plan and staff work across the borough meeting the needs of all schools, we rely heavily on effective communication between ourselves and schools. For this purpose the service is broken down into 5 teams so that work is allocated out appropriately.

Identification of staff and information sharing - NB, Enhanced DBS checks

All staff in the team have cleared enhanced DBS checks. Staff DO NOT carry copies of their certificates so please do not ask them to produce a copy. Encrypted I.D badges are issued once the recruitment process is finalised and induction training is completed by RDaSH. Quite often schools use this document as recognition of the staff who may attend at school to support their Safeguarding policy.

Staff Identity in school

We actively encourage you to share a photo of your SCPHN on your social media platforms and certainly on your staff photo board in school. This raises the profile of the nurse and becomes a familiar face to the school community.

GDPR

Information sharing is covered by GDPR ruling for School Nurses to go about their day to day work. We therefore kindly ask that you share information with us in a timely manner – this would always be under the auspices of a ‘need to know basis’ covered by the Caldicott guidance. The sharing of information including class lists is covered by this document as well as name, address, dob and ethnicity of a child. Should a child move in or out of school, the service must be updated so that NHS health records remain up to date and that a child’s whereabouts is known.

Working Together

the team strives to work together with our partners at all times. There may be times where you need to discuss situations further to better understand the School Nurse offer or to share information about a child or young person. In the first instance please contact SPOC. If you need to speak to a manager, please contact the Team Lead.