Health visitor services
Health Visiting Services within The Highland Council
The Health Visiting Service in Highland provides professional care, support, and advice to promote and achieve health and wellbeing for pre-school children. The Service is available to antenatal women and pre-school children and their families. Health Visitors work in partnership with parents, carers, and other agencies to support them in giving their children the best possible start in life.
Health Visitors are trained nurses who have undergone additional training and who have expertise and experience in child health and development and family health in general. Other members of the Health Visiting team include Community Early Years Support Workers who are trained to work with children in the early years.
You can expect regular contact from your Health Visitor from the time you are pregnant until your child starts school. Your Health Visitor will offer to undertake a development and wellbeing review of your child's health at key times to ensure that your child is attaining the expected developmental milestones for his/her age.
You can also ask to see your Health Visitor at any time out with these contact times for advice, information and support. Following the birth of your baby, your health visitor will provide you with a Child Health Record Book (known as the Red Book). The Red Book is an important record for you and your Health Visitor to record information in relation to your child's health. You should use this record each time you have contact with your Health Visitor.
If you are part of the Family Nurse Partnership programme you won’t have a Health Visitor until your child has their second birthday. Until that time your Family Nurse will have regular contact with you.
Contact your Health Visiting Team
| Child Health Team | Health Visitors email | Office number |
|---|---|---|
| Inverness West | HealthVisitorsInvWest@Highland.gov.uk | 01463 644850 |
| Inverness Central | HealthVisitors.InvCentral@highland.gov.uk | 01463 702296 |
| Inverness East and Nairn | HealthVisitors.InvEastNairn@highland.gov.uk | 01667 422832 |
| Mid Ross | HealthVisitors.MidRoss@highland.gov.uk | 01349 868520 |
| East Ross | HealthVisitors.EastRoss@highland.gov.uk | 01349 886912 |
| Skye Lochalsh and Wester Ross | HealthVisitors.SkyeLWR@highland.gov.uk | 01478 613873 |
| Lochaber | HealthVisitors.Lochaber@highland.gov.uk | 01349 781410 |
| Caithness | HealthVisitors.Caithness@highland.gov.uk | 01955 608123 or 01955 608124 |
| Sutherland | HealthVisitors.Sutherland@highland.gov.uk | 01408 635225 |
| Badenoch and Strathspey | HealthVisitors.BS@highland.gov.uk | 01463 644777 |
| Family Nurse Partnership | FNP@highland.gov.uk | 01463 644470 |