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This new virtual end of life care course is for you if you are a health or social care assistant or support worker supporting end of life patients and their families in the community, acute hospitals, primary care, care homes or prisons.
500,000 People die in the UK every year; one person every minute. It is predicted that this number will rise to 590,000 in the next 20 years.. The need for professionals to access end of life care education has never been greater. During this essential 2 day introduction course professionals will have the opportunity to discuss, consider and evaluate their knowledge and skills in relation to end of life care.
During the pandemic, this course is delivered using a combination of a live virtual classroom and an online learning platform with additional materials and resources.
Virtual learning is a style of learning designed to recreate your classroom experience online. St Christopher’s virtual learning environment offers mixed methodologies to learning online, from full interactions, engaging bite-size presentations, quizzes and resources. Each of our courses is designed and led by leading experts in end of life care, helping to bring flexibility and variety to your virtual learning experience.
On completion of this virtual course you will:
On completion of the course you will receive a certificate of attendance.
Some of the topics included are:
This course is aimed at all health and social care assistants.
Tutors:
Kathy is a Registered General Nurse who worked on the palliative care unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London prior to coming to St. Christopher’s in 1994. She worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist/Nurse Manager in the community for 10 years.
Kathy then spent eight years as a project facilitator and was involved in introducing the Gold Standards Framework into twenty seven nursing homes in the Croydon area. Kathy joined the Hospice’s Advancing Practice Team in 2014 and was involved in Hospice staff training and development and in delivering courses to staff from external organisations until late 2016.
She then joined the Hospice’s education team and is now working as a Nurse Lecturer and is also Internal Quality Assurer for some of the vocational qualifications that are delivered by the Hospice.
Course outline:
Our Online Learning Platform will be available for you to complete this course for a two month period.
If you have any questions about this or any of our other courses, please contact the Education team who will be happy to help
At St Christopher's, a registered charity, it is important for us to maximise any surpluses to reinvest in the objectives of the charity.
Unfortunately, the manner in which we undertake our training currently means we are not able to invest as much of our surplus as possible, therefore from the 1 December 2017, St Christopher’s Education Centre will charge VAT at the standard rate on our training courses, the reason for this change in pricing is twofold:
i) We want to be able to reinvest any surpluses made from training back into all of our charitable objectives rather than only Education
ii) We want to be able to reclaim the VAT on costs relating to developing and running the training courses