Health Visitor Role in Baby Lola Case

Professional role Health Visitor
( Baby Lola case)
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Table of contents
PART 1 EVIDENCE BASD CASE STUDY ESSAY....................................................................3
PART 2 REFLECTION...................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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PART 1 EVIDENCE BASD CASE STUDY ESSAY
I am a health visitor who is working with concerns related to babies. I work with a multi
agency health care team in which there are many types of health professionals who are working
as well. We were working together in order to develop a care plan and solve issue of child abuse,
mental health and drug. In that we followed a child centre approach (Alexandrou,. and
Sapountzi‐Krepia, 2018).
From case study I found that there are some issues which are being faced. The first issue is
of child abuse in which Lola is being abused by their parents. It can be seen that Lola is having
multiple fractures in her both leg and arms. Another issue found is mental health. Clive is
suffering from mental health issue that is schizophrenia. The last issue identified is drugs. Donna
is taking crack cocaine and was depressed.
Case study overview and my role in it
By analysing case study, it has been found that Lola is 6 weeks old and is living with her
parents Clive and Donna. Donna is suffering from schizophrenia and is being taken care by
mental health care worker. Lola is being looked by a general practitioner who has said Donna
and clive to take her to hospital. By taking x ray it was found that she is having multiple fractures
in her both arms and legs. But the parents said that they were not having any knowledge
regarding it. Thus, an investigation is done for it. Due to such critical situation as a health visitor
I stated that they need to sign section 20 form as per Children act 1989 (Astbury, Shepherd and
Cheyne, 2017). This allowed me to put Lola in safe hands with some other family member until
investigation is completed. My role as health visitor is I arranged a strategy meeting. This is as
per section under 47 of Children act 1989. In that I was able to find out children needs by
working with health professionals. Also, I need to identify any concern met level of child
protection act and to agree on actions which we can take. Thus, we agree that as Lola was safe
with other family member to level of intervention met is as per her need. Apart from it, there
were many other members in multi agency team that are mentioned as below
Health visitor- My role is to work with various agencies in order to safeguard and protect
children. Also, to ensure they are trained to identify risk factors, concerns and sign of child abuse
or harm. Moreover, my role is to prepare implementation plan which provide framework of role.
I will also work with families, support them and act as link between health care and family
services (Doi, Jepson and Hardie, 2017).
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