School Nursing Service is a universal service providing a link between health, education, the home and community. The role is to provide advice and support to improve health and wellbeing for all children aged 5-19 years. Through health promotion, health protection and health improvement.
School nurses work with the school aged population offering key contacts including:
- Primary One health assessment: Parents will be asked to complete a health appraisal questionnaire to consent to their child being seen by the school nurse. This assessment will include hearing, vision, height and weight checks.
- Year 8 Health assessment: Parents will be asked to complete a health appraisal questionnaire. Each pupil will be offered an appointment with the school nurse to discuss health promotion and complete a height and weight check.
Your School Nurse will share information on lots of topics such as:
- Health and development
- Emotional wellbeing
- Immunisations
- Healthy Lifestyles
- Smoking Drugs/alcohol
If you have any worries about your child’s health or wellbeing at school, please contact your School Nursing Service for advice
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School immunisations
Within schools there are routine immunisations for teenagers available in all post primary school within the South Eastern Health and Social care Trust area.
Parents and Carers will be informed of the immunisations that their child is due and consent will be obtained prior to immunisations being given.
If you have any queries about school immunisations, please contact the School Immunisation Team on 028 90413765.
Information is available in Public Health Agency Leaflets: