School Nurse

All secondary schools within Oxfordshire aim to have a named NHS School Health Nurse who is based in the school.

The School Health Nurse service offers young people evidence-based preventative health care. Improving young people’s emotional and physical health can improve their wellbeing and life chances - The School Health Nurse will work closely with teaching staff and pastoral support staff to provide support and assistance to students and aid them to make healthy lifestyle choices and reach their full potential - Young people can access the school health nurse during the morning breaks and lunch breaks when the school nurse is in school. The dates are on the door, and available to the pastoral office.

Your School Health Nurse is: Fin Shurrock      

About me: I am a Registered Nurse and have been working in the school health nursing team since 2021. 

Role: Secondary schools within Oxfordshire have a named NHS School Health Nurse who is based in the school. The aim of the School Health Nurse is to offer evidence based preventative health care for Children and Young People. We strive to improve young people’s health and wellbeing and their life chances. I will support students to be both physically and emotionally healthy in order to make informed healthy lifestyle choices and reach their full potential.

What we do: Someone to talk to confidentially to address issues concerning emotional health and wellbeing, physical health, sexual health and social health. School Nurses provide public health interventions to include:                                                                                

• 1:1 with students, offering strategies to promote emotional health and wellbeing. 

• 1:1 support with students for healthy lifestyle choices (keeping safe, smoking cessation, substance misuse advice) 

• 1:1 support with students for relationship advice. 

• Provide emergency contraception, contraception, pregnancy testing and sexual health screening and sexual health advice. 

• Refer and signpost to specialist services as needed.

• Offer a confidential School Nurse drop-in

• If we cannot help, we will find someone who can.

How can you access the School Nurse? 

• Young people can pop into the School Nurse office at drop in’s (alone or with a friend). 

• Speak to your tutor or student support to help with a referral (School staff to send a referral form to SPA: cyp0-19@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk). 

• Self-refer by dropping in to the school health nurse office at break or lunch time, contact ChatHeath 07312263084 available Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.

Confidentiality: The School Nursing service is confidential. This means we can discuss personal information with young people in confidence and will not discuss it with anyone else without their permission. However, if there were any Safeguarding concerns we would pass on any information that we feel is needed to protect a young person or someone else from serious harm. Whenever possible this would be discussed with the young person first.

Days in school:

Monday 09:30am – 13:45pm 

Wednesday 09:30am - 13:45pm

If my days change for any reason this will be shown on the school health nurse office door. 

Email: Finola.Shurrock@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

ChatHealth (School health nurse text messaging service): 07312263084

School Nurse Website: www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

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