Doncaster EIS

Our Journey So far

July 2011

Leadership

Programme

Growing

The

workforce

BCC

Programme

Mobilisation

events

Threats & Opportunities

TCS

TortoiseQIPP

Hare

Survival Kit

• High Level champion

• Cross organizational sign up

• EIS regional and national network

• Practice champions

• Staff engagement

• A sense of humour

• CHOCOLATE – LOTS OF IT!!

Top Tips

• Listen to the frontline staff

• Build on what’s working well

• Promote the evidence base for early

intervention

• Encourage and support some risk taking

• Start small and scale up

• Accept there are no quick wins

Andrea IbbesonThe Edlington Health

Visiting Team

‘‘To work in partnership with the local community to deliver real

health improvement and promote health’

Building Community Capacity

As part of Doncaster’s commitment as an Early Implementer Site, and

to the work put forward by the Department of Health 2011/2012, The

Edlington Health Visiting were tasked with looking towards

practices that would promote effective community engagement.

Early intervention talks of forming a culture of change, improving

outcomes for future generations. Not a reactive intervention we

were looking to utilise evidence based recourses that are seen to

empower and inspire parents to foster secure attachments.

Promoting positive parenting education that celebrates the

strengths of individuals, families and communities alike.

Facing the challenge

With current challenges of crime, burglary,

anti-social behaviour, vandalism, substance misuse

and vehicle crime, housing within Edlington

continues to be poor with many young families

residing within.

Edlington Health visiting team are based in

The Martinwells Centre, a £6m development this

impressive 9 acre site is a great benefit to the

people of Edlington, since its opening

November 2008 the centre has increasingly

become a hub of the community

Exploring the HOW to deliver the Healthy

Child Programme

Acknowledging the close family networks, and

the significant influences of surrounding family

members, intervention would look to engage

expectant parents, siblings and extended family

members. Looking to involve the whole family,

we explored the value of working outside the

standard working week.

Client Consultation

Drugs and alcohol are areal problem, people arebored, wehave a lot of anti-socialbehaviour, our kids haveno where safe to go

Poor parenting,

young mum’s they

need advice

I have no

power to

change

anything

I like the

Children’s

Centre

No hopes for

my future in

EdlinigtonI like one to

one support

It would

be nice to

see the

Health

Visitor

more

during my

pregnancy

I would I play

with my baby

Not

bothered

about

antenatal

classes

I Like the

Children’

s Centre

I’d like to bring

someone with me,

don’t like going to

things on my own

Breast

feeding

advice

Somewhere I can learne lots

and can chooes what I want

to know rather than

someone telling me what

they think I should know

I would like

to bring my

mum along

We asked, we listened and we planned

Three pilot events took place Saturday morning one month

apart, beginning 21/01/2012 was decided upon.

Looking to prepare parents and their families for the arrival of

their new baby, while ensuring we would meet the needs and

expectations of our community. The initial content of the

event was primarily determined through client consultation,

guided by the Healthy Child Program, Pregnancy Birth and

Beyond, Early Intervention (Allen & Smith 2008), along with

other influential local and national documents.

We launched our first event Saturday 21/1/2012, with two further

events completed Saturday 18/2/2012 and 17/3/2012

The way forward, answers on a postcard

please!!

*More stands

and more

frequent

events.

It will help

to

understand

some of the

issues

caring for

my partner

and the

babyMy first

opportunity to

learn about the

baby and its

development etc.

*More events

more

publicised.

*Found the

feeding stand

very helpful

informative

and really

liked the DVD

I will

massag

e my

baby

sister

* Very

informative

relaxing

atmosphere

plenty of

assistance if

you have

questions.

Helpful

and

polite, it

was good

and I liked

the

massage

* I will seek advice and

not be frightened to

ask for support go to

baby massage

More of the

same thing

maybe other

information

stands that

would be

useful i.e. 1st

aid.

Nice calm

friendly

atmosphere lots

of positive

information

*I feel more

confident

about asking

for help.

Attend more

events like this

Different

information

all in the

same place –

very helpful

and easy

This morning

event was very

beneficial

giving me lots

of information

and chance to

ask questions

Summary of Achievements / Impact

• Of the 126 expectant mum’s available to invite over the five events 29 did attend, this has given an average of 23% attendance rate over the five events.

• Along with the 29 antenatal mum’s attending many brought their supporters. Partners, siblings, extended family and friends were all welcome. This gave a total foot fall of 54.

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

10% 20% 30% +

Deprivation %

Antenatal attendants by local

deprivation levels

Potential Attendees

Attendants

Some thoughts that link our project to

local QIPP• Quality – Up to the minute Evidence based information delivered by well trained

staff in a quality purpose built community centre.

• Innovation – Delivered where the families feel most comfortable in an easy to understand format, linking the information to practical experience, Baby massage and the presence of hand massage, breast feeding and offer of cup cakes, Baby brain development and DVD, healthy eating and smoothie tasting, offering a whole family approach.

• Prevention – Attempting to engage families’ early, acknowledging families that are hardest to reach. Early introduction to the Health Visiting Team and Children Centre.

• Productive – Expectant mums and their supporter seen by several professionals within 1.5 hours, a ‘one stop shop’ approach offers a mass of information under one roof. To offer the same information to clients would have taken many hours using the more traditional home visit with a risk of no access visits and additional travelling time.

Using sponsorship of local business to provide goodie bags etc. increases potential for engagement and builds community capacity – the Big Society.

Where are we Now?

● Growing the workforce

● Professional mobilisation

● Aligning the delivery systems