The 0-19 Health Visiting and School Nursing teams provide a universal health service for all children that reside or are educated in Salford.
If you have any concerns about your child’s progress, or if your child has any specific health or development needs, further support and advice will be given. Please contact your 0-19 team.
The 0-19 teams contain a mix of qualified Health Visitors, School Nurses, Community Staff Nurses, Community Nursery Nurses and School Health Assistants.
There are currently:
- Four locality teams, north, central, south and west
- One Universal Partnership Plus Team
- One 0-19 Immunisation Team (0-5 and school aged immunisations)
The 0-19 service provides expert evidence based health information, assessments and interventions for babies, children, and young people and their parents and carers.
What you can expect from the health visiting service
Health visitors provide on-going support and play a key role in bringing together relevant local services to help families with continuing complex needs, for example where a child has a long-term condition.
Families with issues such as safeguarding of children, looked after children and domestic abuse will be supported under universal partnership plus. These families will also receive the same core assessments and extra support as all universal families. Please contact your health visitor for further information.
Your health visitor will provide you with a variety of useful links to websites including the Essential Parent app at each stage of your baby’s development
Essential Parent is an expert-led digital library and e-delivery system that supports professionals and parents.
The support available to you
We may arrange to visit you at home or in one of the community venues such as Family Hubs and Health Centres and we will work closely with your GP, midwife, hospitals, schools and voluntary services.
This support can be provided face to face, using video consultations, on the telephone and via digital platform called Essential Parent to send leaflets, we can also offer support in one of the healthy child clinics which are held across Salford in a variety of venues where health visitors and community nursery nurses can provide you with support in relation to:
- Crying
- Behaviour
- Diet
- Growth concerns
- Toileting
- Infant feeding/breastfeeding
- Continency
- Healthy eating
- Immunisation advice
- Emotional health and wellbeing
- Coping with minor illnesses
- Sleep
We are also able prescribe treatments for common childhood ailments such as thrush, nappy rash and dry skin.
Your health visiting team will give you help, support and advice about healthier lifestyles and improving your child's physical, psychological and social wellbeing.
Get in contact and we can book you into one of our Healthy Child Clinics. Please remember that clinic slots are by appointment only. Please use the contact details on this page for your Locality Team to book.
More complex help
We provide on-going support and play a key role in bringing together relevant local services to help families with continuing complex needs, for example where a child has a long-term condition. Also families with issues such as safeguarding of children, looked after children and domestic abuse will be supported.
Please contact your health visitor for further information.
SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability)
We help families with young children under the age of five.
Your health visitor will give you help, support and advice about healthier lifestyles and improving your child's physical, psychological and social wellbeing.
We're involved in multi-agency meetings that plan services for children who have developmental difficulties. These difficulties may be to do with their learning, communication or physical skills.
Find out more about SEND local offer for Salford and the Neurodevelopmental Pathway.
Got a problem or concern?
Call your local health visiting team on the numbers below, Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.
Outside these hours please call your own GP out of hours service or visit NHS website or telephone the NHS 111 service on 111 for non-emergencies. Calls to NHS 111 are free from landlines and mobile phones.
In an emergency telephone 999.
Worried about a child?
If you are worried about the welfare or safety of a child, it is very important that you contact Salford City Council Bridge Partnership on 0161 603 4500 from 8.30am to 4.30pm. If you need to speak to somebody about your concern outside these hours, please call the Emergency Duty Team on 0161 794 8888.
Healthy Child Clinics
|
Locality |
Day |
Venue |
Contact information |
|---|---|---|---|
|
West 0-19 Team |
Monday |
Little Hulton Children’s Centre |
Telephone: 0161 206 2094 By appointment only |
|
Central 0-19 Team |
Tuesday |
Langworthy Cornerstone |
Telephone: 0161 206 6081 Email: Central.0-19@nca.nhs.uk By appointment only |
|
South 0-19 Team |
Last Tuesday of the month (term time only) 9.30am to 11.30am |
Brookhouse |
Telephone: 0161 206 3819 Email: South0-19@nca.nhs.uk Drop-in |
|
South 0-19 Team |
Tuesday 1pm to 2.30pm |
Family Hub, Irlam and Cadishead Hgh School, Station Road, M44 5ZR |
Telephone: 0161 206 3819 Email: South0-19@nca.nhs.uk By appointment only |
|
North 0-19 Team |
Wednesday |
Swinton Gateway |
Telephone: 0161 206 7525 By appointment only |
|
Central 0-19 Team |
Thursday |
Broughton Hub |
Telephone: 0161 206 6081 Email: Central.0-19@nca.nhs.uk By appointment only |
|
South 0-19 Team |
Friday |
Winton Children’s Centre |
Telephone: 0161 206 3819 By appointment only |
Useful mobile apps
- Hungry Little Minds, links to various apps
- Baby Sleep - White Noise
- Baby Sleep Sounds IOS app
- White Noise Baby Sleep Sounds Android app
- Born to Move:
- Lullaby Trust Baby Check
- Poo goes home to PooLand (constipation and toileting)
The Baby Check App - The Lullaby Trust
The Baby Check App features 19 simple checks that parents can do if their baby is showing signs of illness. Each check tests for a different symptom and when completed a score is calculated that tells parents or carers how ill their baby is. The app then lets parents know whether their baby needs to see a doctor or a health professional.
This page was last updated on 25 May 2023