Description
Health Visitors are nurses or midwives who are passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles and preventing illness. They work with pregnant women through to a child’s fifth birthday. Their role is to help families adjust to being new parents, and provide information and reassurance to support a baby or young child’s health, wellbeing and development.
Health visitors can help and support you to make healthy choices for yourself and your family. Health Visitors are based locally and visit families at home or through a clinic.
During the first few years parents or carers will be invited to see a member of the health visiting team to check that their child is meeting their developmental milestones – we call these core contacts.
The Health Visitors offer a minimum of 5 core contacts within the first 5 years. Families will routinely be offered the following appointments either face to face or over the phone:
Antenatal (whilst you are pregnant)
New birth (usually between 10-14 days)
6-8 week review
9-12 month review
2-2.5 year review
If you need support outside of these key stages you can contact your health visitor and request additional contact.
East Somerset Health Visiting Team are also available for a drop-in session, located at Colliers Court, every Thursday from 1pm – 2:30pm. This is a friendly and fun session so that parents and carers can access health advice, meet others, weigh their baby and play. Please note: Colliers Court is in the same complex as the Frome Dental Access Centre, entrance from Manor Road. What3words: like.curvy.fork
Other things they can help with
- Infant feeding and breastfeeding advice
- Child development
- Immunisations
- Healthy weight and physical activity
- Emotional health and wellbeing
- Parenting and local support groups
- Behaviour
- Sleep
Website
Health Visitors – Frome Town Council