Children’s Community Nursing Team

The main aims of the CCNT service are to:

• Deliver care closer to children and young people who have mild acute illnesses within their home or other community settings
• Reduce hospital admissions and length of stay for children with ongoing and chronic conditions
• Provide support within the homes for children and young people with complex and additional health needs
• Reduce avoidable hospital admissions for children’s with acute illnesses by working in partnership with primary, secondary and tertiary care
• Facilitate early discharge from hospital following elective and non elective surgical admissions
• Provide accessible nurse led clinics within the community setting
• Provide education and training to families and our CYPS multi-agency colleagues involved in providing care to the children and young people of Trafford
• Promote health and well being for all children and young people in Trafford by reducing health inequalities for those who are most vulnerable

The CCNT is commissioned to provide care for the children and young people (CYP) residing in the Trafford area, up to the age of 16 year for short term / acute care, or the 19^th birthday in the case of CYP with complex and additional health needs.

The CCNT aims to promote self care and health promotion for the children and young people of Trafford, by working proactively where possible, and being reactive to their individual needs. Parental and children/young people’s empowerment is one of the fundamentals of children’s community nursing and is encouraged by the support, care and advice that the CCNT provide. We also work in partnership with a variety of services to promote and enable all children and young people to achieve their best possible outcome.

Any child or young person with a nursing need can be referred to the CCNT. Some examples are (list not exhaustive):

• Support for children and young people with complex and additional needs
• Post operative care
• Care during acute illnesses
• Wound care – general, post operative, burns/scalds, suture removal
• Enuresis management
• Constipation management
• Acute asthma care
• Orthopaedic care
• Respiratory care
• Rheumatic conditions requiring subcutaneous medications
• Chronic asthma management
• Eczema or other skin conditions management
• Oncology – support and chemotherapy administration
• Cardiac care
• Palliative and end of life care
• Epilepsy support
• Cystic fibrosis support – also administer courses of intravenous antibiotics when necessary

The service also provides a range of specified equipment and consumables to support children with complex health needs e.g. enteral feeding support, suction requirements, tracheostomy care. CCNT no longer offer a delivery service for this equipment, items must be collected from Meadway Health Centre, Sale.

The CCNT also provides a range of nurse led clinics, providing a combination of telephone, face to face and virtual appointments.  The current provision is for the following conditions:

• Constipation clinic:
  Fridays, 2pm to 4:30pm

• Continence clinic (nocturnal bed wetting only):
  Tuesdays, 2pm to 4:30pm
  Thursdays, 2pm to 4:30pm

• Eczema clinic:
  Mondays, 9:30am to 12pm (telephone clinic appointments only) and 1:30pm to 4:30pm
  Wednesdays, 2pm to 4:30pm

Websites for further information:

• www.asthma.org.uk
• www.epilepsy.org.uk
• www.eczema.org
• www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk
• www.bhf.org.uk
• www.eric.org.uk
• www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk