Helen Mackinnon, Director of SeeSaw
These courses offer a Certificate (level 5) or Advanced Certificate (level 7) for those working with bereaved children and their families. The courses are aimed at anyone with experience in working with bereaved children and their families in education, health or social care. While these courses offer a unique opportunity to link theory to practice, they do not offer a counselling qualification.
Contact Isobel Bremner the Childhood bereavement course Lead on 020 8768 4533 or email i.bremner@stchristophers.org.uk for more information.
For further information on applying please see Hospice UK’s website
Working with bereaved children, young people and families
Context and framework
The course is taught as two modules, on a part-time basis, over nine months. Students are required to attend:
Students will be assessed in a variety of ways, including:
“There is no doubt that the childhood bereavement course gave me the experience and academic underpinning that led directly to my role with SeeSaw. I would not have been able to manage the complex role of director without this training; I am extremely grateful to all involved, I thoroughly recommend the courses to anyone currently working in the field as well as those looking to move into this important and rewarding work.”
Helen Mackinnon, Director of SeeSaw
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