iHV Student Award 2024
iHV SCPHN Student Health Visitor Award 2024 winners speak with Amanda Holland, iHV Education, Learning and Development Lead, on their incredible initiatives to improve outcomes for babies, children and families.
Nicola Taggart
1st Place Winner – Nicola Taggart, SCPHN Health Visitor Student, Manchester Metropolitan University, discusses her initiative to support speech, language and communication in children under 5 years through the implementation of a ‘Little’ Library’.
Rutendo Tafangombe
2nd Place runner up – Rutendo Tafangombe, SCPHN Health Visitor Student, Birmingham City University, discusses her proposal to include and engage fathers through the provision of information on their social, emotional and relationship roles and how these may impact on their mental health and the health and wellbeing of their babies and children.
Monika Kwoka
3rd Place runner up – Monika Kwoka, SCPHN Student Health Visitor, Canterbury Christ Church University, discusses her initiative of working in partnership with the Salvation Army and families who use the service, to transform families’ perceptions of health visiting, build relationships and increase trust and engagement in health visiting services.
iHV Student Award 2023
iHV SCPHN Student Health Visitor Award winners 2023 speak with Amanda Holland, iHV Professional Services Lead, on their incredible new ideas for service provision.
Leonie Grundy
Leonie Grundy shares how she led activities to film a series of evidence-based safe sleep demonstrations for use on social media, within antenatal classes, and safe sleep training.
Claire Black
Claire Black discusses how she worked collaboratively with other professionals to meet the nutritional needs and food preferences of Afghan families.
Please note – in this podcast, the term ‘weaning’ is used and refers to complementary feeding. These terms continue to be used interchangeably, however, we recognise ‘complementary feeding’ as the preferred term in accordance with WHO.
Robin Williams
Robin Williams talks about how she identified a gap in the involvement of fathers in home visits by health visitors and her initiative to engage and include fathers.