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Children's Continuing Care Team Portsmouth
The Children’s Continuing Care Team provides nursing support to children with complex health needs within the Portsmouth and South East Hants areas. Continuing care is not needed by children or young people whose needs can be met appropriately through existing universal or specialist services through a case management approach.
The Team consists of Registered nurses, health care support workers and an office administration team who work with colleagues across agencies to facilitate the provision of individualised care packages.
The team delivers individualised packages of care to children, usually provided in the child’s own home, though care may also be provided in other settings, such as in schools or nurseries including supporting with transport to these settings.
Care packages may be delivered at any time throughout the 24 hour period predominantly covering weekends, evening hours and overnight care for the child in order to allow parents to sleep through the night.
How can we help?
The Children’s Continuing Care Team aim to deliver an individualised high-quality support service to your child and the family which includes:
- enabling children and young people with complex health care needs to have an improved quality of life by providing them with choice to remain in their own home, enable early discharge and minimise the need for repeated hospital admissions
- providing personalised care packages to individual children based upon an assessed care need
- supporting discharge from hospital of children with complex health needs
- establishing and maintaining clear channels of communication with families at all times
- ensuring that packages of care are delivered by health care support workers who have received specific training and preparation for their work with individual children
- regularly review care packages to ensure that they continue to meet the needs of the child
- A Home Care Agreement which parents or guardians are asked to sign
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Referral criteria
All children and young people referred to the service must be registered with a GP in Portsmouth and South East Hants areas.
Full service description
The Children’s Continuing Care Team provides nursing support to children with complex health needs within the Portsmouth and South East Hants areas. Continuing care is not needed by children or young people whose needs can be met appropriately through existing universal or specialist services through a case management approach.
The Team consists of Registered nurses, health care support workers and an office administration team who work with colleagues across agencies to facilitate the provision of individualised care packages.
The team delivers individualised packages of care to children, usually provided in the child’s own home, though care may also be provided in other settings, such as in schools or nurseries including supporting with transport to these settings.
Care packages may be delivered at any time throughout the 24 hour period predominantly covering weekends, evening hours and overnight care for the child in order to allow parents to sleep through the night.
Referral method
All referrals are triaged by a clinical member of the team and a decision is then made as to whether to progress with a full assessment.
A health professional will arrange an assessment, most commonly when an infant, child or young person is discharged from hospital and needs support with their healthcare in order to live at home.
The child or young person’s needs are assessed against agreed criteria, the assessors will ask for input from the family and any health professionals who work with the child or young person, as well as from education and social care professionals.
Assessments for children and young people are made according to the Department of Health National Framework.
Other information & documentation
The Children’s Continuing Care Service can be contacted between 8:30am and 5pm Monday to Friday.
An on-call service operates
Monday to Friday -07:00hrs - 08:30hrs and 17:00hrs-22:30hrs
Saturday to Sunday -07:00hrs - 22:30hrs
and can be contacted by calling: 0844 588 5989
A copy of the National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care can be found on the Department of Health website.
The Department of Health have produced a leaflet entitled “Children and young people’s continuing care: guide for young people and parents.”
Have you heard of the Local Offer? If you are a young person with, or have a child with special educational needs and disabilities, (SEND) the Local Offer is Portsmouth’s central source of information for SEND services and support. Visit Portsmouth Local Offer for an easily accessible one stop shop
Contact Information
Battenburg Child Development Centre, Battenburg Avenue, North End, Portsmouth, PO2 0TA
Opening hours
- Monday 8:30am-5:00pm
- Tuesday 8:30am-5:00pm
- Wednesday 8:30am-5:00pm
- Thursday 8:30am-5:00pm
- Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
Special Notice
Closed Weekends and Bank Holidays. An on-call service operates Monday to Friday -07:00hrs - 08:30hrs and 17:00hrs-22:30hrs, Saturday to Sunday -07:00hrs - 22:30hrs and can be contacted by calling: 0844 588 5989