SAPHNA SCHOOL AND PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES ASSOCIATION
Section 3: School Nursing within an integrated, collaborative system School Nurses work across many partnerships, collaborating with other professionals to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people. It is important to adopt a model that allows School Nurses to maintain their professional identity whilst working collaboratively with others. A ‘hub and spoke’ model of delivery allows School Nurses and their teams to sit within a central hub whilst providing outreach to other services/teams in which the clinical knowledge and skills might be beneficial (Figure 8). The Hub allows School Nurses to maintain their professional identity whilst working collaboratively with others. Using this model School Nurses can
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access peer support and shared learning to enable the delivery of high quality, safe, person centred and cost-effective care. Spokes allow allocation of time to other services/ teams; in a formalised manner this allows the School Nurse to be part of the ‘spoke’ team, building relationships and trust with other professionals. There are examples in practice which illustrate the ‘hub and spoke’ model in action. For example, in Walsall, School Nurses and Nursery Nurses spend part of their week in Early Help hubs working alongside Early Help workers and Social Workers (Case study 3 appendix).
