NHS Online Course | Children’s Continuing Care

Paediatrics

Tue 17 Jun 2025 09:00-15:20

Online Course, 5 CPD Hours

Designed for children’s continuing care teams seeking fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to address the challenges of delivering children’s continuing care packages. Benefit from the first-hand experience of your course leader Joanna Grant, Consultant Advisor in Children’s Continuing Care who will lead you through real-life case scenarios, practical communication and delegation techniques. Return to your team feeling supported and equipped with new ideas you can implement to develop your service.

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Service Development Strategies for Children’s Continuing Care

Online 5 CPD hours From £249+VAT

5 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn

Take one day out to network with your children’s continuing care colleagues from across the country and explore innovative ideas and best practice approaches to develop your children’s continuing care provision. Book on and benefit from:

How to create a collaborative MDT environment through effective communication strategies
Understanding the role of delegation in continuing care and how to implement it successfully
Strategies to improve your collaborations with health, social care and education services
Shared learning and innovative approaches to overcome funding challenges
Real-life scenarios to manage challenging patient behaviour in your service
Practical guidance on how to prepare parents for their child’s transition to adult services

Developed with convenience in mind: join this online NHS event from the comfort of your own home

With an emphasis on interactive discussion and idea sharing, this online course equips you with the insights and strategies to deliver change within your continuing care team, through:

Though-provoking, informative presentations: discover practical approaches to overcoming common continuing care service challenges
‘How-to’ guidance: explore how to delegate effectively to support increasing caseloads
Real world case study examples: dive into different approaches to managing difficult patient behaviour
Engaging interactive discussions: explore how other services are addressing funding concerns and enhancing collaboration with social care and education services

This course is available for in-house training

9:00	Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
9:30	Introduction, instructions and course leader’s opening remarks Joanna Grant, Health and Social Care Consultant, Solutions in Healthcare
Fostering practical MDT teamwork
9:40	Establishing a cohesive multidisciplinary team: roles, responsibilities and communication styles Understanding the personnel: what roles are essential for continuity in continuing care? Creating a coordinated care approach: encouraging ownership of responsibilities within your MDT How-to cultivate a collaborative MDT environment through communication strategies
Supporting effective delegation
10:10	How-to actively delegate tasks and responsibilities to enhance your continuing care processes Navigating the relationship between delegation, supervision and competency Exploring the role of delegation in children’s continuing care to support caseload management Implementing practical approaches to delegating effectively to ensure high quality patient care
10:40	Questions and answers with Joanna Grant
10:50	Screen break
Partnering across health, social care and education
11:00	Interactive discussion: Improving health, social care and education collaboration Share how education providers, social care and your team are working collaboratively What do the current roles and responsibilities for care and funding provision look like? What challenges have you experienced when collaborating with education services and how have you overcome them?
11:20	Feedback from interactive discussion: Improving health, social care and education collaboration
11:30	Creating effective continuing care packages in conjunction with social and education partners From personal health budgets (PBH), support plans to clinical care plans: exploring the cross-organisation responsibilities Navigating the challenges of working with differing services to establish a continuity of care Building essential relationships to ensure clear role ownership for packages
12:00	Questions and answers with Joanna Grant
Overcoming funding challenges
12:10	Interactive discussion: Improving access to funding in your area Share your main funding challenges with children’s continuing care provision. What innovative solutions have you used to overcome these challenges? How have you collaborated with services outside of healthcare (such as charities, social care and educational services) to support your funding needs?
12:30	Feedback from interactive discussion: Improving access to funding in your area
12:40	Lunch break
Managing difficult behaviour
1:10	Case study interaction: Explore your approach to managing challenging behaviour and supporting positive change
	You will be presented with three case study examples of different types of challenging behaviour experienced whilst providing children’ continuing care.
	In this interactive session you will focus on: Comparing your approach to the case studies and how you would manage the challenging behaviour Logistical implications of behaviour management: who is involved and how are they supported? Exploring innovative and alternative approaches to behaviour management
1:50	Feedback and questions from the interactive case studies
2:00	Screen break
Preparing parents for transition
2:10	How to prepare parents for their child’s transition to adult services Understanding parents’ apprehension when transitioning their child to adult services Practical guidance for facilitating conversations with parents about their child’s transition Different approaches to managing your parents’ expectations of the changes from children and adult continuing care
2:40	Questions and answers with Joanna Grant
2:50	Interactive discussion: Inspiration and action points: exploring what you can directly implement into your continuing care team What are your three main takeaways from the day? How are you going to implement these takeaways into your service? Share your next steps for improving the delivery of children’s continuing care within your organisation
3:10	Feedback from interactive discussion: Inspiration and action points: exploring what you can directly implement in your continuing care team
3:20	Your course leader closing remarks and close of day

Share in the first-hand experience of your course leader

Joanna Grant has previously held courses on Developing your Children’s Continuing Care Assessments and Advancing your Children’s Continuing Care Assessments. Joanna’s courses have been described as “worth attending”, “engaging” with case studies that “were really useful, encouraging interaction”. Packed full of real-world examples, implementable strategies and shared learning, return to your team equipped with fresh strategies to tackle your children continuing care service challenges.

Joanna Grant

Job Title:

Health and Social Care Consultant

Organisation

Solutions in Healthcare

Biography

Joanna has a wide-ranging background in both the NHS and the Independent sector. She has worked in schools, community nursing and continuing care. Joanna was a Chief Nurse in a large corporation providing homecare across the UK and now works as a consultant advisor to those working with children, young people and adults in the places they live and work, including hospices, residential homes/schools/colleges, assisted living, secure settings and family houses. Joanna is passionate about supporting people to achieve their chosen goals whilst remaining in their preferred environment; supports nurse-led care, especially for those with complex needs and is an advocate for those people who need care at home and for the nurses and carers that provide this.

Pricing Structure

£249+VAT for two or more NHS or Public Sector places
£399+VAT for one NHS or Public Sector places

You or a colleague can claim the group NHS discount, for booking two or more places across this and any other subsequent event, providing the same pricing structure applies. Click here to view the full list of up coming events.

For group bookings of five or more people, please email our delegate support team or call 01732 897788 for further details

This course is available for in-house training

Available as a bespoke course to teams of 30+ people. Please do contact us if you would like this training delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day. Please email Sarah Kemm for further details.

Reservations

You can reserve a no-obligation place whilst you apply for funding

How this online forum will work

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. Within one week of the online training taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the course.

If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.

Practice sessions are available. If you would like to attend a zoom practice session before the event takes place, please let us know by emailing bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk. You will have the opportunity to meet an SBK Healthcare staff member who will ensure you are able to access zoom, that your camera and microphone work and you are fully set-up for the day. This is optional but if you do wish to attend, please use the same device that you plan to use on the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the course by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.

Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.

Terms and conditions

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Expected attendees

This online course has been specially designed for experienced children continuing care professionals who are seeking new approaches and best practice resolutions to the logistical challenges involved in children’s continuing care.

Giving you the opportunity to network with:

CYP Continuing Care Commissioning Matrons and Case Managers
Children’s Continuing Care Nurse Assessors, Team Leaders and Clinical Nurse Specialists
Children Community Team Managers and Nurses
Complex Care Co-ordinators and Nurses

If you have a team that is 30 people or more, you can have a bespoke course delivered online to your team alone. Please contact Sarah Kemm or telephone 01732 897788.

Past attendee feedback

“Great to learn about the experience of other staff in this field, different ways of working and different team approaches. Encouraging that most people seem to be experiencing the same issues!”
NHS North West London Integrated Care Board, Best Practice: Children’s Continuing Care Referral Process, Sep 2024

“The presentations were excellent; the group discussions were invaluable with lots of information to take away and reflect upon. It was interesting to see that all areas are facing similar challenges and different resolutions were offered and available”
NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, Best Practice: Children’s Continuing Care Referral Process, Sep 2024

“Very well organised and delivered. Great mix of presentations and group discussion”
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, Best Practice: Children’s Continuing Care Referral Process, Sep 2024

“I really found this training very interesting and helpful. A lot of great networking opportunities and the case studies were really useful, encouraging interaction. Thank you”
North Yorkshire Disabled Children's Service, Advancing your Children’s Continuing Care Assessments, Feb 2023

“Really useful insight and chance to network and consider different scenarios”
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Advancing your Children’s Continuing Care Assessments, Feb 2023

“This was a brilliant session with a really good balance of presentations and breakout sessions where you could share your views and thoughts”
Herts and West Essex Integrated Care Board, Evolving your Children’s Continuing Care Team, Nov 2023

“So many interesting points discussed and lots learned in the way other people and teams work”
North East Lincolnshire Council, Evolving your Children’s Continuing Care Team, Nov 2023

“Was great to hear from other teams and what works well for them as well as not so well”
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Evolving your Children’s Continuing Care Team, Nov 2023

“Good to network and hear other peoples experience/views”
Berkshire West CCG, Developing Children's Continuing Care Assessment, May 2022

“Excellent discussion, there are many practitioners out there with so much experience to share. Organisation of the event was excellent”
Barnsley CCG, Developing Children's Continuing Care Assessment, May 2022

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Service Development Strategies for Children’s Continuing Care