Children and Young People's Community Nursing Service

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust is an award-winning lead provider of children and young people’s community nursing services across West Sussex and Brighton and Hove.

We support children and young people with a clinical nursing need aged 0 to 18 years who have:

acute, short-term conditions
long term conditions
complex health needs and/or disability
life limiting and life-threatening conditions

Our service includes:

Four locality Children and Young People’s Community Nursing teams in the North Crawley, South Lancing, West Chichester and Brighton and Hove
Special School Nursing
Specialist Children and Young People’s Continence Team

Our team can:

offer specialist care and advice
plan visiting schedules in collaboration with you and your family, arranging mutually convenient appointments within a two-hour window
provide a named nurse for you and your family, with clear contact details if you need to get in touch

We aim to:

provide your child with high quality nursing care at home
enable the safe and effective discharge of your child from hospital
prevent their admission or re-admission to hospital
support your child’s overall health and wellbeing
enhance quality of life for your children and the whole family
provide or help you access specialist paediatric equipment that allows your child to be cared for at home
provide advice to children and their families to help them to manage their nursing care

Our skilled nurses provide care and support for a range of illnesses and conditions including:

cancer (in Brighton and Hove this is provided by Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital)
heart problems
epilepsy
oxygen dependency
rheumatology (issues with joints, muscles and ligaments)
multiple complex needs
airway problems, including tracheostomy
enteral feeding (the feeding of liquid through a tube direct to the stomach)
post-transplant care
wound care
complex bladder and bowel management
renal (kidney) and hepatic (liver) problems
long term ventilation and oral, nasal or nasopharyngeal suction needs
short term intravenous therapy
treatments by regular injection

Service Location:
- Brighton
- Hove
- West Sussex
How To Access:
The service will receive referrals from registered healthcare professionals from paediatric services within the acute/tertiary services, general practice, specialist nursing teams and children’s therapy teams.

All referrals should be made electronically. Referrers can contact the service for advice on referrals via telephone. Contact details for local area teams are below.

Please complete the main referral form and any additional accompanying form for nasogastric (NG), intravenous (IV) and wound referral.
Contact Details:
For the Crawley (North) team contact:
5th Floor
Crawley Hospital
West Green Drive
Crawley
RH11 7DH
Tel: 01293 301013
Email: SC-TR.CCNTeamNorth@nhs.net

For the Worthing (South) Team contact:
Children's Community Nursing Team (South)
Unit 3, Ground Floor
The Quadrant
Marlborough Road
Lancing Business Park
Lancing
BN15 8UW
Tel: 01273 696011 ext.6200
Email: SC-TR.ChildrensCommunityNursing@nhs.net

For the Chichester (West) team contact:
The Westhampnett Child Development Centre
28-29 Westhampnett Road
Chichester
PO19 7HH
Tel: 01243 793619
Email: SC-TR.CCN-West@nhs.net

For the Brighton and Hove team contact:
Seaside View Child Development Centre
Brighton General Hospital
Elm Grove
Brighton
BN2 3EW
Tel: 01273 242012
Email: sc-tr.ccnbrightonandhove@nhs.net
Opening Hours:
Our service is open from Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. Weekends and Bank Holidays 8.30am to 1.15pm.

The Brighton and Hove team is not currently offering a weekend and Bank Holiday service.

End of Life Care: 24-hour standby care, in partnership with Snowdrop at Home care and Chestnut Tree House.
How to find us:
See contact details above.
More Information:
Directorate:
CHRW
Reference Directory ID:
16348
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