The Partnering Families Team (PFT) supports families in Wolverhampton in two strands: The Partnering Families Nurses and Midwife have received extensive additional training to enable them to provide intensive, enhanced bespoke support and care to young expectant mums, dads and their babies. The Health Inclusion Team (HIT) provides a specialist service, compromising of Specialist Health Visitors and a School Nurse. We visit families who are at risk of experiencing social exclusion due to their circumstances. Our clients may have been victims of torture or oppression in their home nations or live a nomadic or transient lifestyle resulting in difficulty accessing healthcare.

The service is based at:

The Gem Centre, Neachells Lane, Wolverhampton, WV11 3PG

Our services are also delivered from:

• Community Health Centres including the Phoenix Centre, Bilston Health Centre and Pendeford Health Centre

• Wolverhampton Family Hubs

• Patients’ own home and/or places of residents

Our expertise and experience encompasses: General Nursing, Paediatric Nursing, Midwifery, Health Visiting and School Nursing. Our extensive skills facilitate personalised care and support to be specifically tailored to meet the needs of our clients and to optimise their health, social, emotional and economic outcomes.

We work therapeutically with young parents to develop and support: positive attachment, healthy relationships, sensitive parenting, emotional / physical / social and environmental health, prepare for / transition to parenthood, all areas of development for both parents and child, independent living and life course planning.

Our clients

Partnering Families Nurses / Midwife support clients who are 25 years or younger and expecting their first child or mothers who are now pregnant again who have had previous children removed and may have varying vulnerabilities. We offer an enhanced delivery of the Healthy Child Programme while the family is supported by the Partnering Families Nurses / Midwife. If you feel that you would benefit from a referral to the team, please speak to your Midwife.

The Health Inclusion Team work with vulnerable families and children aged 0-19 in Wolverhampton who are at risk of being socially excluded. These patients might face barriers when accessing healthcare, which risks ill health and poor experiences.

Examples of these groups are refugees and migrants, families fleeing domestic violence, and those who are homeless and living in temporary accommodation. Keep following to learn more about how they help patients and their families.

Transfer to the general Health Visiting service

Clients supported by the Partnering Families Team Nurses / Midwife are transferred to the general Health Visiting Service when the family’s child reaches either their first or second birthday dependent upon the identified needs. Clients supported by the Health Inclusion Team are transferred to the general Health Visiting Service when they are no longer homeless or their child starts attending school. Safeguarding / Complex Needs Our intensive working with clients means that we are ideally placed to identify concerns leading to the timely de-escalation and escalation of safeguarding cases.

To speak with a member of the Health Inclusion Team, see the contact details below: Phone: 01902 441057 Email: rwh-tr.0-19healthinclusionteam@nhs.net

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