What we do

Children’s Community Nurses (CCNs) are specialist paediatric nurses who provide care for children and young people in their homes, schools, and other community settings, helping families manage complex health needs outside of hospital.

We work closely with GPs, paediatricians, hospitals, therapists, schools, social care teams, and voluntary services to deliver family-centred care.  

Our team consists of: Community Children’s Nurses, Play Specialists, Health Care Support Workers, Education Support Team and the Administrative Team.

 

  • Support for children with long-term, complex, life-limiting, or life-threatening conditions
  • Nursing care such as medication administration, enteral feeding support, oxygen therapy, and symptom management
  • Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and enabling earlier discharge from hospital.
  • Education and empowering parents and carers to safely manage their child's healthcare needs at home.
  • Coordinate care across health, education, and social care services.
  • Deliver palliative and end-of-life care where required.

 

We work as a team to:

  • Carry out health assessments of children, young people and their family’s needs.
  • Design packages of care to support children and young people at home, school or during leisure activities.
  • Provide training of health care procedures to other services to enable children and young people to access all settings.
  • Prevent hospital admissions whenever safe to do so.
  • Support and educate children and parents in relation to their health needs.
  • Act as family advocate and communicate with other services on behalf of the child, young person and their family.
  • Provide palliative care and symptom management.
  • Support young people through transition to adult services
  • Support students who may occasionally accompany our staff on visits.

  • Children and young people age 0 - 16, or 19 if they have a statement of special
  • needs.
  • The child or young person must have a nursing need or complex healthcare need
  • that can safely be met in the community, or a complex health care need.
  • We also support children, young people and their families who require palliative
  • care.
  • The children or young people must have a general practitioner in Warwickshire.
  • They will be receiving care from a consultant paediatrician.

Who can refer to us?

We accept referrals from all health care professionals.

When appropriate, referrals will be sign posted to alternative services.

Please complete the referral form and send to swg-tr.cwicb.ccntadminsecure@nhs.net

The service is available Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, however we offer a flexible service to meet individual needs where appropriate.

There is also a 24 hour nurse on-call service available for telephone advice only.

Hands on clinical care is available 24 hours per day when end of life care at home is necessary

How to Contact Us?

The team operates a Single Point of Access (SPoA) Hub to support children, young people and families who access our service.

The SPoA Hub provides one central point of contact for referrals, enquiries and requests for support, helping us to coordinate care more effectively and ensure that families receive timely advice and assistance from the most appropriate member of our team.

The SPoA operates from 09:00-17:00 Monday to Friday

Telephone number: 01788 555138

Out of Hours

Outside of normal working hours there is a on call telephone service, to access this please call Warwick Hospital on 01926 419439 and ask them to page the Community Children’s Nurse on call.