Those wishing to undertake a career in healthcare can now progress from Healthcare Support roles to Nursing Associates and Registered (Degree) Nurses via Apprenticeships. These new opportunities provide the same university study as the traditional student routes but are combined with work-based learning as an employee with a salary and no student debt. Add to these the opportunity to qualify as social workers, physiotherapists and paramedics whilst working and gaining experience and you can see that it is a good time to take a fresh look at careers available in health care.
The St Christopher’s Summer School is for you if you are keen to experience work in health and care and achieve a City & Guilds qualification in end of life care at Level 2. This five day course could be the springboard to your future career.
After the course there is an opportunity for you to be part of our patient and family support summer volunteer programme assisting our qualified health professionals and experienced volunteers – making a real difference whilst gaining experience and a reference.
Successful completion of a workbook will give you the City & Guilds Level 2 Award in Awareness of End of Life Care (three credits). This is one unit that can be used to contribute to future study and
Apprenticeships.
You must attend all five days from 9.45am to 4pm at St Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham. This programme is subsidised so we charge you a £40 contribution against the full cost (£475 per person).
Contact the Education Team to book.
Telephone 020 8768 4656
Email education@stchristophers.org.uk
At St Christopher’s Hospice our vision is of a world in which all dying people and those close to them have access to care and support, whenever and wherever they need it. We promote excellence in end of life care by delivering a range of training programmes to students from all over the world.
The week will include:
If you answered yes to any of the above, then exploring a career in health and care with St Christopher’s Summer School may be just right for you.
Over five days you will meet professionals working in the hospice, talk to patients and their relatives and receive training from our Education team of nurses and other qualified specialists.
Following the course you will have a chance to be one of our young adult volunteers.
St Christopher’s Education staff are dual professionals, with combined clinical and teaching roles and qualifications.
These specialist staff work with patients and families in end of life care and are skilled in introducing the subjects using participative methods, ensuring that there are opportunities for individual reflection and the sharing of ideas.
Individual tutorials are given at the end of each taught day and there is a high level of support.
For more information and how to apply, please contact Joanna Reynolds-Cook
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
