Join SAPHNA
SAPHNA welcomes you to join as a member if you are a School Nurse, working with School Nurses or passionate about our work and values.
SAPHNA, a charity, is an internationally recognised professional organisation that will provide you with a whole range of professional benefits; joining us will also demonstrate your commitment to the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families.
We currently have a reach of over 5,000 comprising School Nursing and the Public Health Nursing workforce, parents, governors, Commissioners, Providers, Teachers, Social Workers, Third sector partners, Children’s charities and more.
School and Public Health Nurses play a critical role in ensuring that children and young people thrive and enjoy a healthy and happy childhood and, in turn, adulthood. SAPHNA commits to supporting you to deliver on this!
Benefits
SAPHNA place huge value on the children and young people’s workforce and, as such, want you to enjoy maximum benefits from your membership. Below are some of the benefits you will enjoy.
Maximising your professionalism
- Increased visibility of the profession through our joint work
- Opportunity to grow your own experience and portfolio through participation in our developments
- Special interest groups
- A forum through which to have your voice heard
Communications
- Quarterly electronic newsletter with latest news, evidence, research and other relevant reports
- Members-only access to practice forums to enable healthy discussions and debates!
- Opportunity to influence policy and practice via consultations/representations
Members’ area
- Access to the latest tools, guidance, and evidence-based materials to ensure that you can make a real difference to children, young people and families
- Instant access to evidence-based topics from eczema to child protection
- Instant access to the members only SAPHNA resources
Discounts
- Free online training re supporting pupils in schools with medical conditions
- Lower-cost CPD, training including regional and national events
- Free/Lower-cost entry to conferences on key relevant topics
- Lower-cost subscription to the Journal of Children’s Health (previously the British Journal of School Nursing)
- Lower-cost resources negotiated by us with key partners and suppliers
- Discounted digital training via our partner Compass Positive Effect
- Three months free subscription to Creative Education
Students
Our support to SCPHN Students includes:
- Half price membership fees for the period you are studying including all membership benefits
On top of these membership benefits we also offer:
- National expert advice
- Guidance, resources and support regarding your Research
- Facilitation/suggestions re alternative practice
- A range of opportunities to shadow, from operational through to strategic, including Governmental, to help fulfil your learning outcomes.
- Support/links to publication
Special interest groups
- Opportunity to work with SAPHNA on project work streams
- Chance to represent School and Public Health Nursing at key stakeholder groups/events
- Special educational needs and disabilities
- Nurses working in independent schools
- Nurses based in state/maintained schools
- Accident and Emergency best practice
- More SIGs in continuous development according to membership identified need
Research
- Support from SAPHNA academic advisors re research
- Research best practice forum
- Research involvement opportunities
- Links to wider research national and international agenda
- Research repository access
Membership types
Corporate membership
Corporate membership, either as an NHS Trust, Employer, Higher Education Institution (HEI) or industry partner, will enable you to demonstrate your commitment to your School and Public Health Nursing workforce, giving them the support and access to all the resources that are available through membership to SAPHNA.
For further details of the corporate scheme please contact us.
NHS and Employer organisations
SAPHNA has a legacy portfolio of direct work with NHS and other Employer Organisations. To compliment this, we will now also offer Corporate membership. You can join all of your School and Public Health Nursing workforce, including students. This will ensure that your workforce will have access to the most up-to-date information and developments relevant to their work, thus, enhance the delivery of high quality, research based practice.
For further details, please contact us.
Higher Education Institutes (HEIs)
We are delighted to offer HEI membership to those involved in the development and delivery of education to/relevant to School and Public Health Nurses. This will enjoy the national benefits of working alongside SAPHNA and locally will provide access to up-to-date contemporaneous resources, training and learning to further underpin your teaching and training. Costs are based on numbers of intake/students who, whilst studying, enjoy a 50% discount in fees (£42/annum), plus any aligned academic colleagues.
For further details, please contact us.
0-19 service -wide membership.
As many services increasingly become 0-19 providers, we are now receiving requests for whole service membership. We are able and have accepted a number on this basis. We do not purport, however, to provide the specialist expertise for our Health Visiting colleagues, rather we provide a broad offer around public health nursing which is often applicable across the whole age-range.
For further details, please contact us.
