Contact the Children's Community Nursing Service
Available 7 days a week, 8am to 6pm.
- Call 01872 246 956 (answerphone available).
- Email the Children's Community Nurses Team.
- Truro Health Park, Infirmary Hill, Truro, TR1 2JA.
Children’s community nursing
Children's community nurses provide information, resources, and guidance to help your child be as independent as possible. They work closely with you and other health professionals and organisations to improve your child's quality of life and reduce hospital visits and admissions.
They can support your child at home, or within another local setting within the community. They can support with nursing needs such as:
- enteral feeding devices (for example, nasogastric or gastrostomy tubes)
- wound care
- condition-specific monitoring (for example, cardiac care)
- the administration of medicines at home, including injections or intravenous antibiotics.
They also provide care and support for children at end of life. If your child requires blood tests this may be supported in your home, or a community clinic, run by the team.
Referrals
Call 01872 246 956 and ask to speak to the triage nurse for the day.
Referrals can be accepted from any professional involved with the child or young person.
Other children’s community nursing services
Paediatric Epilepsy Nurse Specialist Service
Help for families
Our caring for a child or young person with epilepsy leaflet (PDF, 500 KB) has helpful information and resources on how to care for a child or young person with epilepsy.
Who we are
We provide a point of contact for young people and their families to address any problems, queries or concerns in relation to their epilepsy.
We accept referrals for any young person living in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly from consultant paediatricians based in Cornwall, Plymouth, Exeter and Barnstaple.
We provide clinics in the community, home visits, telephone calls and, where appropriate, school visits.
What we do
We can provide the following support:
- advice and guidance around the diagnosis of epilepsy and further seizure control
- medication monitoring and advice
- support with the training and use of emergency medications
- training for schools and other care settings
- comprehensive care plans to follow during a seizure
- advice and guidance around clinical investigations
- discussion about emotional health and wellbeing and signposting to relevant services
- assistance with alternative treatments including specialist interventions from Bristol Children's Hospital
- working with the wider multi-disciplinary team
- guidance with lifestyle choices
- transition to adult services
Existing referrals and enquiries
Available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
- Write to: Children's Services Care Management Centre, Truro Health Park, Infirmary Hill, Truro, TR1 2JA.
- Call 01872 246 949.
- Email the Epilepsy Service
Professional referrals
- Download the paediatric epilepsy referral form (DOCX, 53 KB).
Short Break Service
The Short Break Service gives short breaks or respite to families who have a child or young person aged between 3 and 18 with a learning disability and physical health needs. These breaks are provided from the homes listed below.
- Gwyn Dowr: Call 01209 881 881 or email Gwyn Dowr.
- Layland: Call 01579 373 616 or email Layland.
- Roston: Call 01209 881 848 or email Roston.
Referrals
Referrals are made following a needs assessment. The assessment is completed between you and your social worker. Your child or young person is then allocated the most appropriate short break service.
Youth justice specialist nurses
The Youth Justice Service is a multi-disciplinary team of staff from social care, health, education, housing, police, probation, and drugs and alcohol services.
Its aim is to identify the specific issues that may be influencing the child or young person's behaviour using a trauma-informed approach. The service then offers a suitable intervention that aims to meet the young person's needs and reduces the likelihood of them getting in to further trouble.
Youth justice specialist nurses work alongside the Youth Justice Service to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes. They are a small team of qualified specialist community public health nurses.
Their role is to ensure that the physical and emotional health needs of young people who are working with the service are identified and addressed through appropriate health services.
The team will refer any child or young person for whom they identify unmet health issues, to the youth justice specialist nurses. The nurses will then undertake a holistic health assessment and will offer advice and support where appropriate or may act as an advocate for young people to assist them to access the health services that they require.
Who is the service for?
Children and young people aged between 10 and 18 years of age who are within the youth justice system.
For more information, email the youth justice specialist nurses.