BCHC Plus School Nursing

BCHC Plus School Nursing

 

 

The BCHC Plus School Nursing service supplements the NHS ‘core’ school nurse service provided by local health commissioners. 

 

BCHC Plus offers schools and other settings the opportunity to buy additional dedicated school nurse time to address school health needs that lie beyond the scope of the core service.

 

The link between educational attainment and positive health is well-documented. School nurses play a key role in ensuring that children, young people and families have effective support and access to available services at the earliest point, from a child’s transition into school and continuing through their school-aged years. 

 

Local authorities commission a ‘core’ school nursing service supporting the public health needs of school age children. But sometimes schools find that specific health needs in their school require additional support over and above that available from the core service. 

 

BCHC’s trusted NHS school nurses have many years experience of successfully providing locally commissioned school nursing services.

 

Through the BCHC Plus programme head teachers can purchase additional school nurse time from a team dedicated to this programme, provided to the same high clinical standards, and focusing on their school’s specific needs and outcomes. 

 

A BCHC Plus school nurse will provide regular, scheduled visits and protected time dedicated to your school. As a trusted clinical member of your school’s virtual team the nurse will address agreed specific health needs, always working in conjunction with, and complementing, the core service. 

 

To improve the effectiveness of the service for our customers and minimise duplication, BCHC Plus nurses work alongside and liaise regularly with their core service colleagues.

 

 

Benefits of School Nursing

Individual schools have differing health-related needs and objectives, and your BCHC Plus service will be tailored to these. Your BCHC Plus school nurse will work to a shared action plan jointly agreed at the outset with school staff. Drawing together relevant information from the school and other sources, and clinicalinput from the nurse, the action plan is focused on achieving the additional outcomes that are most appropriate in your school.

 

BCHC Plus customers can prioritise how the time is to be used, in conjunction with their nurse. Many schools focus the time on health topics that lie outside the scope of the core service (e.g. health education). Others allocate some of the time to supplement certain aspects of the core service.

 

School health topics that we provide support for include the following:

• Curriculum input focused on health and wellbeing
• Issues arising in school that may have a link to health
• Health education and promotion activities for parents, families and the school’s wider community
• Dedicated support addressing a school’s wider health-related challenges
• Liaison with GP’s, Health Visitors and other professionals.

 

 

Health eductaion and brief interventions

BCHC Plus school nurses provide supplementary support and education services enabling schools and other settings to address health-related needs amongst pupils and the wider school community. Services are available as individual modules supplementing existing provision, or as part of a comprehensive package of support.

 

Health Education

BCHC Plus school nurses offer brief interventions or continuing support for a growing range of Health Education topics. These services are delivered at the customer’s premises by arrangement.

BCHC Plus: Parental Education

BCHC Pus school nurses also offer Parental Education modules, also delivered at the school and by mutual arrangement. For details of prices and availability please contact us.

BCHC Plus: Medical Needs in Schools

This training package is designed to support those working in schools and other settings which do not qualify for medical needs training provided through local health commissioning. It provides training and support in relation to management of Asthma, Allergies, Epilepsy and Diabetes, use of Emergency Medication in relation to those conditions, Emergency Planning, and developing Medication Policies.

 

Training is delivered on site by appointment and should be repeated annually where the training involves administering emergency medication. Training modules take approximately 1 hour to deliver and can be provided separately or in combination.

 

For details of prices and availability please contact us.

 

 

Need something different?

The range of support and education services available through BCHC Plus is continually expanding. If the topic you are looking for is not listed above, please contact us to discuss the specific needs in your school.