The Child & Family Service is a free community based primary health service providing support to children, young people and their families through a multidisciplinary health team.
The Child & Family team offers services to children 0-18yrs through two main service areas:
- School/pre-school health – health education, health promotion, hearing and vision screening, child protection, referral management, responding to self-referrals, immunisation, epidemic response, specialist ear nursing.
- Family support – parenting support and education, child protection, well child care.
The service employs:
- Public Health Nurses
- Medical Officer
- Vision Hearing Technicians
- Ear Nurses
- Community Health Assistants
- Child Health Social Workers