Nutrition and healthy weight are key contributors to future health and wellbeing for the whole family, and evidence demonstrates that this is a key public health priority throughout the life course, starting in the pre-conception period. It is therefore essential that those working in early years services are equipped to facilitate this work, and health visiting services are excellently placed to work alongside families to support them in making healthy choices.
The Healthy Weight, Healthy Nutrition programmes offer an evidence-based, holistic approach to upskill practitioners to be confident in having conversations with families around healthy nutrition from the pre-conception period onwards, physical activity, and oral health, -all of which are significant contributors to healthy weight.
There is both an iHV Champion and iHV Ambassador programme available in Healthy Weight, Healthy Nutrition.
Having completed the training the champions and ambassadors will receive access to the online digital toolkit, and updates for two years following their initial attendance. After the two years if they would like to continue to access the support they would need to renew by paying a small fee.
Types of training
Champions
This one-day course is aimed at health visitors or those practising at an equivalent level. It will prepare practitioners to be place-based informal leaders of Healthy Weight, Healthy Nutrition, using opportunities to influence stakeholders and services around needs of families, to identify gaps locally, and to improve support available. Additionally, the day will equip Champions to deliver a half-day cascade session to enable colleagues to also become Healthy Weight, Healthy Nutrition Champions. The latest evidence base will be used to provide participants with a deeper knowledge and understanding of this important area of public health.
Champions will have access to Champions training resources, our digital toolkit of evidence and useful resources, newsletters, updates and webinars to maintain their confidence and competence (while grant funding continues). Access to Champions materials is granted for 2 years following training and can be renewed for a small fee following this period.
1-day training programme focusing on:
- The specific needs of babies and children, and their families, thinking about tailoring support for different stages in a child’s development.
- How we engage families and have sensitive conversations.
- Specific topics covered in the training include:
- Session One: Communication and Why is HWHN important?
- Session Two: Infant feeding and Introducing solids
- Session Three: Healthy families
- Session Four: Oral health and Physical activity
The programme is delivered as:
- Private events - costs on request
- iHV hosted events
🕒 Duration: 1 Day
👥 Suitable for: Health visitors (or equivalent level)
- Use new knowledge when working with families to enable children and babies to have the best start in life.
- Be a place-based informal leader of HWHN using opportunities to influence stakeholders and services around needs of families, to identify gaps locally and improve support available.
- Cascade the modules to direct peers/colleagues/teams.
- 4 modules each, 2 hours long for flexible delivery. The modules mirror the 1-day training and can be delivered over 1-day if preferred.
- Train -the-trainer cascade resources including:
- Training guide
- Lesson plans and slide sets that will take you through the modules
- PowerPoint slides and notes
- When a session has been cascaded send us the sign-in sheet and we will give all those on the list access to the toolkit. They will also have access for 2-years, however at the end to maintain access they will have to attend another cascade session.
- Support own and colleagues further learning through access to an online digital toolkit
Continue learning through access to an online digital toolkit.
This is a digital online interactive toolkit that contains resources in a variety of formats to support health visitors and their teams in practice with assessing and promoting HWHN, oral health and physical activity with families. All resources have been quality assured and ethically reviewed.
The toolkit has been co-designed with health visitors, their teams and subject experts and contains resources on four topics nutrition, weight, oral health and physical activity.
At the end of the toolkit is a reflection activity to allow practitioners to record a reflection on their learning for their own CPD or for their revalidation.
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No suitable scheduled dates?
Contact us to register your interest.
For more information, contact us.
Ambassadors
This one-day course is aimed at those supporting delivery of the health visiting service (skill-mix team) and wider early years workers. It will prepare practitioners to become a place-based advocate of HWHN, using opportunities to share resources and promote Healthy Weight, Healthy Nutrition with colleagues, local services and families, and equip them to deliver a one-hour cascade session to enable colleagues to advocate for Healthy Weight, Healthy Nutrition. The day will provide a comprehensive overview to allow practitioners to offer practical support to families around healthy food choices, growth monitoring, and encouraging physical activity and good oral health.
1-day training programme focusing on:
- The specific needs of babies and children, and their families thinking about tailoring support for different stages in a child’s development.
- How we engage families and have sensitive conversations.
- Specific topics covered in the training include:
- Current context considering; the whole family, culture, food insecurity and food marketing
- Healthy eating for across the life-course
- Growth monitoring and when to worry
- Introducing solid foods, eating habits and fussy eating
- Physical activity
- Oral heath
The programme is delivered as:
- Private events - costs on request
- iHV hosted events
🏷️ Cost: £265 (iHV Member) / £290 (Non-member)
🕒 Duration: 1 Day
👥 Suitable for: Health visitors or HV team members
- Use new knowledge when working with families to enable children and babies to have the best start in life.
- Be a place-based advocate of HWHN, using opportunities to share resources and promote HWHN with colleagues, local services and families.
- Cascade a 1-hour awareness session to your direct peers/colleagues/teams. This covers the background and current context of HWHN, physical activity and oral health. As well as introducing the toolkit and resources available within it.
- Cascade resources include:
- Lesson plan and slide set.
- PowerPoint slides and notes you can download.
- Cascade resources include:
- When a session has been cascaded send us the sign-in sheet and we will give all those on the list access to the toolkit. They will also have access for 2-years, however at the end to maintain access they will have to attend another cascade session.
- Continue learning through access to an online digital toolkit.
Continue learning through access to an online digital toolkit.
This is a digital online interactive toolkit that contains resources in a variety of formats to support health visitors and their teams in practice with assessing and promoting HWHN, oral health and physical activity with families. All resources have been quality assured and ethically reviewed.
The toolkit has been co-designed with health visitors, their teams and subject experts and contains resources on four topics nutrition, weight, oral health and physical activity.
At the end of the toolkit is a reflection activity to allow practitioners to record a reflection on their learning for their own CPD or for their revalidation.
[Hyperlink to event]
No suitable scheduled dates?
Contact us to register your interest.
For more information, contact us.
