Health Visitors Services in East Dunbartonshire
The Health Visiting Team provides a universal pathway to all families from antenatal to pre-school.
The Pathway is based on several underlying principles. These are:
- Promoting, supporting and safeguarding the wellbeing of children
- Person-centeredness
- Building strong relationships from pregnancy
- Offering support during the early weeks and planning future contacts with families.
It is UNICEF baby-friendly accredited. The Children and Families Team consists of:
- Health Visitors
- Nursery Nurses
- Health Care Support Workers
- Dental Health Support Workers.
The health visiting team works closely with families and wider primary care team, such as GPs, midwives, speech and language therapists, health promotion teams, school nurses, district nurses, specialist children’s services and the voluntary sector.
Your health visiting team can be contacted by phoning the numbers above or via your GP surgery.
Dental Health Support Workers can provide support in promoting dental health and Child Smile programme.
The Birth to 5 Years Groups offers a chance to meet other parents and carers to chat, share experiences and exchange suggestions. It also provides you with the opportunity to speak with a member of the Children and Families Team to discuss any questions you may have.
Groups
- First Steps Group five week programme to promote baby massage and linking parents into local resources
- ‘Enjoy Your Baby’ Group is an evidence-based programme for the management of stress, anxiety and depression for mothers experiencing mild to moderate mental health challenges in the postnatal period (up to one year postnatal initially). The programme consists of five weekly sessions and can be delivered on a group or one to one basis dependent on the needs of the mother. Referral via Health Visitors
- The programme promotes early intervention, reducing the risk of deterioration using a recovery-based model of person-centred care taking account of the women’s needs and those of her infant, partner and family
- NCT Baby Café
Monday mornings
Hillhead Community Centre
Kirkintilloch.