Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust - Children’s Integrated Therapy and Nursing Service - Children's Complex Care Team (CCCT) and Complex Packages of Care (CPOC)

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The Children's Complex Needs Care Team and Complex Packages of Care are part of the Children’s Integrated Therapy and Nursing Service which has a shared vision about shared care for children with additional and complex needs. This vision is shared across all six teams across Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.                                    

The Nursing Services exist to provide skilled evidence based care to children with complex or additional needs in the community, and all children who attend a special school. This provides support for the parents, carers and school staff in meeting the health needs of children with complex needs.  

The service is provided by a team of highly skilled staff made up of Senior Nurses, Staff Nurses and Health Care Support Workers.

We work in partnership with other agencies statutory, private and voluntary sectors in order to meet the complex health needs of children and their families within the Trust’s footprint. 

The Nursing Service will work in identifying those children who are at risk of being harmed either physically or emotionally and act accordingly in line with child protection policy. The service completes a health needs assessment for children with complex needs who require continuing care. This is completed to identify the nursing needs. Following assessment the team will contact the commissioning body for allocation of the package of support. The nurses will work in partnership with the agency delivering the package 

The nurses also provides support to parents, educational settings and social care in respect of children that have been identified with complex nursing needs whose needs cannot be met by other services such as; health visitors and school nurses. 

Who to contact

Contact Position
Children's Complex Care Team and Complex Packages of Care
Telephone
01282 628362 01282 628362
E-mail
CPOC@lancashirecare.nhs.uk
Website
https://www.lancashirecare.nhs.uk/.../ccct-cpoc
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Where to go

Name
Floor 5
Address
St Peters Centre
Church Street
Burnley
Lancashire
Postcode

BB11 2DL

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Availability

Referral required
Yes
Referral Details

The Children’s Complex Care Team and Complex Packages of Care are only available to children who live in the East Lancashire area.

Contacts are carried out in the patients home, school, respite facility and hospital.

Other notes

Children’s Complex Care Team (CCCT)                                                           

The Children’s Complex Care Team are a team of qualified nurses with specialist knowledge and skills relating to children with complex needs. They assess the health needs of children with complex needs. 

The CCCT is commissioned to undertake Health Needs Assessments for any child referred within the East Lancashire Area. 

Any child that has been referred to the CCCT assessment team will be assessed using the Continuing Health Care Decisions Making Tool, as to whether the health needs of the child would entitle the family to a package of care to support them in meeting their child’s complex health needs.

The CCCT undertakes all reassessments of children who are commissioned a package of support. These are 3 months following commencement of package then annually or sooner if there are changes in the child’s condition.                                              

The CCCT also provides support to those families who have a package of support provided by an agency. A staff nurse within the CCCT team acts as a link nurse and maintains contact on a monthly basis to review the support and signpost families to other services if required. The team would refer to other services as appropriate and contribute to the Team around the Family meeting, Child in Need meetings and Education, Health Care (EHC) planning for those children in receipt of a supportive package of care.                                                                                          

This service is for children and young people who have very complex health needs aged between 0-19 years. Eligibility is assessed on an individual basis which will determine the level of support provided. The service does not provide support for children with a learning disability or mental health issues without physical complex needs.                

Complex Packages of Care Team (CPOC)                                                       

Following assessment the CPOC team may be commissioned to deliver care to an individual child and provide care and support as identified in the Health Needs Assessment.  

The team provides support to children who have been identified as requiring an individual package of care to support them and their complex health needs. The children and family are involved in developing the child’s individual care plan. The package manager and lead nurse work alongside the child and family together.

All our complex packages of care staff are trained & skilled in meeting children’s complex health needs. They include qualified nurses and skilled, trained health care support workers. The training includes all practical and theoretical aspects of training such as tracheostomy & ventilation management.

The package of care may include: 

• Delivering care as identified during assessment following protocols and procedures and individual holistic approach to care for the child and their family 

• Supporting the parents in caring for their child 

• Supply and maintenance of medical devices and/or consumables 

• Working closely in partnership with other professionals and agencies

• Giving continuity and flexibility to families                                                      

The time and support provided is based on the individual child’s needs. Ongoing support can be provided and the team can also be contacted by phone. 

Local Offer

Contact Name
Carole Kay
Contact Telephone
01254 283139
Contact Email
citns@lancashirecare.nhs.uk
Links
Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
Local Offer Age Bands
0-5 years
5-11 years
11-16 years
16-19 years

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