Community Children's Nursing Team - Bassetlaw - Community Children & Young People's Specialist Service

9.00 a.m - 5.00 p.m Monday – Friday (Not Bank Holidays)

Community Children's Nursing Team- Bassetlaw

The Community Children’s Nursing Team are a team of specialist children’s nurses and trained healthcare support workers who visit children at home, school and other community settings who have nursing care needs. Services are provided for children registered with a Bassetlaw GP, aged 0 – 19 years, who meet the criteria for acceptance.

They provide care at home for children with any of the below:

• life limiting/threatening disease/disability who can be safely cared for at home
• a medical condition
• a progressive condition resulting in significant health needs and a specialist nursing need.

We aim to prevent re-admissions and promote early discharge.

The nursing team provide equipment and training to ensure children with significant health needs can access educational and community settings to achieve their full potential.

We run weekly phlebotomy clinics in Retford, if you have a Bassetlaw GP and your child requires blood test, we are able to carry these tests out with paediatrically trained staff.

The Children’s Community Nursing Team accept referrals from parents, school nurses, health visitors, GPs, social services, education, hospital and community services.

Paediatric Occupational Therapy - Bassetlaw

The Paediatric Occupational Therapy Team accepts referrals from health professionals and provides assessment support advice, therapy training and equipment for children with long or short term physical disabilities. Children whose poor motor coordination skills are affecting their ability to function in everyday tasks are also seen. Visits are made to the home, school and other community settings. The primary aim is to promote independence and skills for daily living, using a range of approaches, so that they are able to participate to their full potential and overcome discrepancies between performance skills and ability.

The OT service is commissioned to provide support to children and young people with physical disabilities and/or complex health needs which without Occupational Therapy may inhibit the progress of their physical and functional development. This includes but is not limited to children and young people with:

• Disorders of movement and posture
• Disability, illness or physical health need which may be improved or controlled by therapeutic skills and use of specialist equipment
• Functional coordination difficulties
• Neurological conditions
• Orthopaedic conditions
• Assessment of specialist postural equipment (e.g. specialist seating) and or small aids to increase independence in functional skills of a child’s daily activities may also be carried out.

Children must be 0 -19 years of age and registered with a Bassetlaw GP.

Paediatric OT accept referrals from health professionals, involved in the child’s care.

Children’s Learning Disability Nursing Team - Bassetlaw

The service can offer help with behaviour management in areas such as sleep, toileting, challenging behaviour, play, social skills. Children/young people must be aged 0-24 years with a moderate to severe Learning Disability and additional complex needs such as; Autism, ADHD, Down syndrome, Cerebral Palsy etc

The Children’s Learning Disability Team accepts referrals from any source and provides specialist advice and strategies that can be implemented by carers at home, school and other community settings for children Their expertise supports the child, their families, carers and schools in areas such as sleep, continence and behaviour management, in order to create the appropriate resources and environment for the child to achieve their best potential.

Parents, education or a health professional can refer, but Children must be registered with a Bassetlaw GP.

Times and availability

Age Range: The CCN and OT service is available to children and young people aged 0 – 19, The Learning Disability Service is available to children and young people aged 0-24.