Your School Nursing Service

Your School Nurse team works within schools and the wider community to:

• Provide health advice to help children and young people make the best of their education
• Provide advice and support to parent/carers and schools
• Support young people to look after their own health
• Direct children and their families to the right services
• Undertake review of growth as part of National Child Measurement programme (Reception and Year 6)
• Identify health needs and trends at a community level to inform current and future services and allocation of resources

We can help you and your child with lots of things including:                             

• Healthy lifestyle choices – including healthy eating and physical activity
• Worries about your child’s physical and/or mental health
• Body shape or size
• Stress at school or at home
• Management of a health condition
• Keeping safe
• Friendships and bullying
• Sleep
• Bladder and bowel issues (toileting advice)

What we offer:

We offer confidential one to one appointments. This may be face-to-face (at school, in a community venue or at home), via video conference using Microsoft teams, or via phone.

How to contact us:

Phone/email: You can also contact us via phone or email via one of our PHN hubs:

If you are not sure which team you link to you can find out by using our Find Your School Nurse Service.

Request support directly via Request for support – Education and Families (devon.gov.uk)

Referrals:

You can contact us directly or ask someone else to make contact with us on your behalf such as a teacher at school, or another professional you are working with.