Management Information Sheet

The new Healthy Child Programme (including School Nursing) will commence this autumn. This briefing is to update you on the transition to the new service.

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust will be providing the Norfolk Healthy Child Programme (HCP)Service from 1 October 2015 in Great Yarmouth and Waveney from 1 November 2015 in the rest of the County.

The purpose of the attached document is to provide staff and other stakeholders with information about the aims of theHCP service, the service offer and plans for implementing changes.

The service offer described will take time to implement as we are committed to working with staff, children,young people and their families and other stakeholders to design , develop and implement the detail and willdo this in a planned and phased way. Implementation plans will also be aligned to increasing the capacity ofthe NHCP service - there are more staff in the service’s workforce model than are transferring.

For the first 6 months services will continue as they are currently being delivered and we will be focusing on:

• Putting in place a leadership and management structure
• Moving to a 6 locality team (to mirror the early help hubs) and Countywide service structure
• Undertaking reviews of current service delivery and pathways – identifying what is working well and how this can be shared and spread across the County and, identifying improvements that staff and other stakeholders would like to make to improve outcomes
• Designing and planning aspects of the service offer that will be new (see page 15)
• Undertaking a “culture inquiry”, to identify actions we can take to ensure staff experience an inclusive and positive organisational culture

We are working with the current Provider organisations to ensure a safe transfer of staff and services, includingensuring all safeguarding arrangements are in place and that staff have all the tools and equipment they needto undertake their roles from Day 1 (e.g. mobile phones, mobile working devices, access to SystmOne, babyweighing scales etc).