End of Life Care Competencies

Making competencies relevant to all care settings and to all health and social care staff who care for dying people

For those delivering end of life care in non-specialist care settings comes a new practice development resource from St Christopher’s Hospice.

Designed for nurse and social care managers, this 50 page competency workbook comes with a CD which will enable your organisation to adapt and use selected elements to fit your own training and development needs. Any part of the competency framework may be copied and used by trusts or organisations with acknowledgment.

"Ensuring that health and social care staff at all levels have the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes related to care for the dying will be critical to the success of improving end of life care. For this to happen, end of life care needs to be embedded in training curricula at all levels and for all staff groups"
End of Life Care Strategy, Department of Health, 2008

"Having developed specialist end of life care competencies for our own nursing workforce several years ago, we know the value of having clear, realistic, measurable practice objectives"
Liz Bryan, St Christopher’s Hospice Advancing Practice Nurse.