Outreach
Our Outreach Team help sick children, young people and their families who need support at home. You can come to the Outreach team whether you are a child or young person yourself, a parent or a professional involved in a child’s care.
What does our outreach team do?
- Assess your child or young person who may need care at home.
- Work with your child or young persons GP, district nurse and other services to ensure that the right level of care is provided at the right time and in the right way.
- Provide a listening ear and support.
- Care at the end of your child’s life, usually in the last few weeks working with other professionals.
- Provide information and expertise to families and professionals.
- Visit Brian House children and families when they are in hospital for a prolonged period.
- Provide support at and around the time of a child or young persons death along with other services, such as the Linden Centre.
- Work with others to ensure children are reviewed.
Considering everything
Your child can be considered for our Outreach Service as long as you fit our Brian House Hospice criteria. This means you require care at the end of their life or support for a period of time, possibly due to major surgery or prolonged hospitalisation or illness.
Our dedicated team is two two senior children’s nurses. This combined experience includes oncology, medical, caring for children with special needs, and caring for children in a hospice. We work alongside our Brian House team and other professionals. We strive to provide your children or young people with holistic, physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual, individualised care.