Child Health
The Peppermint Grove Child Health Centre
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am – 4:30pm.
Phone: 9286 8669
Child Health, Immunisations. Parenting Programs – Town of Cottesloe, Town of Claremont, Town of Mosman Park and Shire of Peppermint Grove in partnership with Child and Adolescent Community Health.
Child Health Services for Cottesloe, Claremont, Mosman Park and Peppermint Grove residents are provided at the Peppermint Grove Child Health Centre located at The Grove Precinct, 1 Leake Street, Peppermint Grove. Clinic Opening hours are Monday to Friday 8:30am-4:30pm. Tel: 9286 8669
The Child Health Centre is located in The Grove Precinct, next to the Community Centre and Library. This centre is open Monday to Friday 8.30am – 4:30pm and offers universal child health checks and developmental assessments at 8 weeks, 4 months, 12 months and 2 years.
The four councils in conjunction with Child and Adolescent Community Health runs a free Immunisation Clinic by appointment on the first Wednesday of every month from 9:30am to 12.30pm, in The Grove Community Centre. All Childhood immunisations are available as per the WA Immunisation Schedule are free. For enquiries and appointments please call 6151 1308.
Child Health Nurses also hold a ‘Drop in’ clinic for new parents in the Community Centre every Wednesday morning from 9am to 10.30am. Open to all parents (and children under 4) who would like to come and speak to a nurse and have any questions answered or have their babies weighed. Wednesday afternoons from 1pm to 2.30pm in the community centre are for New Parent Groups which are run in four week cycles and cover topics such as sleep settling, breast feeding and adapting to the changes and challenges of parenting.
For more information about these programs please phone Child Health on 9286 8669 or 9347 6900
You are welcome to speak to your child Health Nurse about:
- Breastfeeding
- Sleep and settling
- Introducing solids
- Childhood illnesses
- Immunisation
- Adjustment to parenting (mums and dads!)
- Postnatal depression
- Play and Development