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Place Description: Paediatric Dietitians are registered Dietitians who specialise in the nutritional care of infants, children and adolescents in both the hospital and community settings. We interpret the science of nutrition into practiced guidelines for disease management and health promotion.

Place Description: Health Visitors are registered Nurses with an additional qualification in child health/development and family health. Health visiting is a proactive, universal service that provides a platform from which to reach out to individuals and vulnerable groups, considering their different dynamics and needs, and reducing inequalities in health. Your Health Visiting team can offer a family centred service from pregnancy until your child goes to school. We can offer advice and support on matters such as: Play, stimulation and child development Nutrition Breastfeeding Weaning Healthy eating 1-5 years Sleeping Immunisations Keeping your child safe Toileting When will I see my Health Visitor? Our aim is to provide you with the help you need at the right time. Contacts will vary depending on your family’s needs. You will be visited at home and/or places (e.g. health centres) most suited to your needs. The usual contacts offered by the Health Visitor are: An antenatal visit after 28 weeks A new birth visit between 10 and 14 days 6 to 8 weeks 14 to 16 weeks 6 to 9 months (Health Visitor or Child Health Assistant) After your child’s first and second birthday’s 3+ year review in nursery school How can I contact the Health Visiting Team? Every GP practice has a named Health Visitor. Your Health Visitor will provide you with their contact details which they will write in your Parent Child Held Record (Red book). If this information is not available, please contact your GP who will provide you with up to date contact information. Four GP Practices are located in the Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex offering a wide range of general medical services to all registered patients. Monday – Friday: 8:30AM – 6:00PM Drumragh Family Practice – 028 8225 9119 Grange Family Practice – 028 8224 0175 Strule Family Practice – 028 8224 3231 3 Spires Family Practice – 028 8224 0100

Place Description: We offer support, advice or assistance as appropriate to parents, carers, children and young people in relation to childrens rights and complaints. If we cannot help we will signpost to someone who can. We take complaints and enquiries into breaches of childrens rights. In particular we deal with complaints against relevant authorities, which basically means public bodies. We also take or intervene in legal cases concerning childrens rights. Children their parents or carers normally contact us, but we also take initial enquiries from all interested parties.

Place Description: Health Visitors are registered Nurses with an additional qualification in child health/development and family health. Health visiting is a proactive, universal service that provides a platform from which to reach out to individuals and vulnerable groups, considering their different dynamics and needs, and reducing inequalities in health. Your Health Visiting team can offer a family centred service from pregnancy until your child goes to school. We can offer advice and support on matters such as: Play, stimulation and child development Nutrition Breastfeeding Weaning Healthy eating 1-5 years Sleeping Immunisations Keeping your child safe Toileting When will I see my Health Visitor? Our aim is to provide you with the help you need at the right time. Contacts will vary depending on your family’s needs. You will be visited at home and/or places (e.g. health centres) most suited to your needs. The usual contacts offered by the Health Visitor are: An antenatal visit after 28 weeks A new birth visit between 10 and 14 days 6 to 8 weeks 14 to 16 weeks 6 to 9 months (Health Visitor or Child Health Assistant) After your child’s first and second birthday’s 3+ year review in nursery school How can I contact the Health Visiting Team? Every GP practice has a named Health Visitor. Your Health Visitor will provide you with their contact details which they will write in your Parent Child Held Record (Red book) . If this information is not available, please contact your GP who will provide you with up to date contact information. Tel : 028 8167 1406

Place Description: Public Health Nursing The Public Health Nursing Service is made up of the following: • Integrated Health Visiting and School Nursing Service • Family Nurse Partnership • School Immunisation Team • Breastfeeding Coordinator • Health Protection Nursing Team • Safeguarding Children Nurse Specialists • Looked After Children Nurse • Behaviour Assessment Service • Paediatric Continence Nursing Service • Children’s Health Coordinator Integrated Health Visiting and School Nursing Services There are nine integrated health visiting and school nursing teams who work across the Trust in community settings. The team is made up of health visitors and school nurses who are registered nurses with an additional qualification in child health / development and family health, and specially trained public health nurses and child health assistants. Health visitors and school nurses deliver the universal Healthy Child Healthy Future Programme by assessing and identifying health needs in partnership with families and communities and helping people to improve their health. Health visitors and school nurses work in partnership with other professionals, for example, GPs, midwives, teachers, social workers and speech and language therapists. The team can give you information about other services such as parenting programmes or other support groups. We offer a confidential service and will not discuss your personal information with anyone else without your permission unless to protect you or someone else from serious harm. Health Visitors Health Visitors will offer a family centred service from pregnancy until the child goes to school. They offer advice and support on matters such as: • Parenting & behaviour management • Nutrition – breastfeeding, bottle feeding, weaning and healthy diets • Immunisations • Play, stimulation and child development • Keeping your child safe The Pregnancy Book – http://www.publichealth.hscni.net/publications/pregnancy-book-0 Birth to Five – http://www.publichealth.hscni.net/publications/birth-five School Nurses School nurses work in partnership with parents, children, young people and schools to help provide or support about:- • Growth measurements, vision and hearing screening • Maintaining health and development • Emotional wellbeing & keeping safe • Immunisations, including flu • Weight management, healthy diets and physical activity • Smoking / drugs /alcohol advice • Parenting and behaviour management You can help us by making sure your child has received all their immunisations before starting primary school. Your child’s school details and current home address will be obtained electronically from the Department of Education and recorded on the Child Health System for health visiting and school nursing appointments. Health Visiting and School Nursing team contact details: Antrim 028 9442 4600 Ballyclare and Larne 028 2826 1956 Ballymena 028 2563 5658 Ballymoney 028 2766 1891 Carrickfergus 028 9331 5824 Coleraine 028 7032 5461 Cookstown 028 8672 3842 Magherafelt 028 7936 5014 Newtownabbey 028 9083 1492 Family Nurse Partnership Family Nurse Partnership is a voluntary, intensive home visiting programme for pregnant teenagers. It is open to all young women who live in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust who meet the entry requirements. Family Nurses visit instead of health visitors from early pregnancy until the child reaches the age of two years old. Contact details: 028 2564 1468 School Immunisation Team The School Immunisation Team provides all school age immunisations. These include delivery of the HPV vaccine to all year 9 girls, the school-leaving booster/MMR and the Meningitis ACWY to all year 11 pupils. Contact details: School Immunisation Team Coordinator 028 2563 5214 School Immunisation Team 028 2563 5212 School Immunisation Team Administration 028 2531 3151 Breastfeeding Coordinator The Breastfeeding Coordinator works in partnership with the public health nursing teams to facilitate a coordinated approach to enhance breastfeeding standards, increase breastfeeding rates and ensure the achievement and maintenance of UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation across the health visiting and school nursing teams. Contact details: 028 9083 1408 Health Protection Nursing Team The Health Protection Nursing Team is a nurse led service which provides TB contact tracing and screening and includes a contact service for new entrants arriving from high incidence TB countries. Health advice, BCG and Hepatitis B immunisation is offered for infants and children who are at risk. Contact details: 028 7954 7471 Safeguarding Children Nurse Specialists The ‘Named Nurse’ for Safeguarding Children has a strategic role to ensuring that all nursing and midwifery groups safeguard and promote the well-being of children and young people. Safeguarding children nurse specialists work across the Trust providing professional advice, support and supervision to health visitors, school nurses and other nursing staff working in the area of safeguarding children. Contact details: 028 9442 4600 The Looked After Children’s Nurse The Looked After Children’s (LAC) Nurse supports the delivery of health services to children and young people who are looked after by someone other than their parents. Looked After Children work in partnership other professionals, for example, GPs, midwives, teachers, social workers and speech and language therapists. Contact details: 028 2531 7151 Behaviour Assessment Service The Behaviour Assessment Service is a nurse led service which provides an assessment of child/young person’s behaviour. The service works closely with parents, families, health professionals, GPs and education staff in assessing and identifying appropriate management and treatment plans for children and families. Contact details: 028 2563 6522 Paediatric Continence Service The Paediatric Continence Service is a nurse led service which offers advice and support to children, and young people on all aspects of bladder and bowel problems including children who use catheters and/or stomas. Referrals are accepted from nurses, paediatricians, GP, school teachers and parents. Children are assessed and offered support and advice from a member of the public health nursing team and a referral may be made to the paediatric continence nurse specialist where continence problems are complicated or unresolved. Contact details: 028 2563 7150 Children’s Health Coordinator The Children’s Health Coordinator works in public health nursing to support services and developments to enhance the health of children and young people through early intervention and prevention. Contact details: 028 9083 1489

Place Description: Home-Start Down District which includes Downpatrick, Ballynahinch, Castlewellan and Newcastle helps families who have at least one child under the age of five and who are going through a difficult time. Families are support for many different reasons including:- • Loneliness and isolation • Multiple births or several pre-school children • Ill health or disability of a child or a parent • First time parenting • Postnatal illness • Family bereavement • Relationship difficulti Home Start offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children in local communities. Home Start offers a unique service, recruiting and training volunteers-who are usually parents themselves-to visit families at home who have at least one child under 5 to offer informal, friendly and confidential support. To help give children the best possible start in life, Home Start supports parents as they grow in confidence, strengthen their relationship with their children and widen their links with the local community. Ring 028 4461 5727 – Central Line for all local referrals Home-Start Downpatrick provides a Home Visiting service and the Incredible Years Programme Home-Start Ballynahinch provides the Home Visiting service and playgroups in following venues: Home Start office 10b Lisburn Street the Family Group runs on a Monday, Tuesday and Friday 10-12noon. Crossgar – Glasswater Primary School John Street Wednesday 10-12 Drumaness- in Dan Rice Hall Thursday 10-12 Newcastle Home-Start also provides the Home Visiting befriending service and their Family Groups runs in: The Castlewellan Community Centre Monday & Tuesday’s 10-12noon Kairos Centre above Xtra Vision in Newcastle Thursdays 10-12noon.

Place Description: Health Visitors are registered Nurses with an additional qualification in child health/development and family health. Health visiting is a proactive, universal service that provides a platform from which to reach out to individuals and vulnerable groups, considering their different dynamics and needs, and reducing inequalities in health. Your Health Visiting team can offer a family centred service from pregnancy until your child goes to school. We can offer advice and support on matters such as: Play, stimulation and child development Nutrition Breastfeeding Weaning Healthy eating 1-5 years Sleeping mmunisations Keeping your child safe Toileting When will I see my Health Visitor? Our aim is to provide you with the help you need at the right time. Contacts will vary depending on your family’s needs. You will be visited at home and/or places (e.g. health centres) most suited to your needs. The usual contacts offered by the Health Visitor are: An antenatal visit after 28 weeks A new birth visit between 10 and 14 days 6 to 8 weeks 14 to 16 weeks 6 to 9 months (Health Visitor or Child Health Assistant) After your child’s first and second birthday’s 3+ year review in nursery school How can I contact the Health Visiting Team? Every GP practice has a named Health Visitor. Your Health Visitor will provide you with their contact details which they will write in your Parent Child Held Record (Red book). If this information is not available, please contact your GP who will provide you with up to date contact information.

Place Description: Home Start offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children in local communities. Home Start offers a unique service, recruiting and training volunteers-who are usually parents themselves-to visit families at home who have at least one child under 5 to offer informal, friendly and confidential support. To help give children the best possible start in life, Home Start supports parents as they grow in confidence, strengthen their relationship with their children and widen their links with the local community. Ring  028 4461 5727 – Central Line for all local referrals