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Course Content
This session will build your awareness and confidence in supporting people through grief and bereavement. It is not a counselling qualification but offers practical insights and tools for compassionate support. (Supportive, Assistive & Registration levels, NHSE 2025).
The session includes:
- Self-care and resilience
- Understanding grief and bereavement
- Individual’s emotional responses to loss
- Key models of grief: Kubler-Ross, Dual Process, Continuing Bonds, Growing around Grief
- Supporting children, young people, and people with learning disabilities
- Using creative methods to encourage expressing and processing grief
- Expert guidance in supporting a person with dementia in grief and bereavement.
Eligibility Criteria
This session is ideal for health and social care professionals who would like to gain a core understanding build their confidence in this area of practice.
Dates & Key Information
Dates
Thursday 7th May 2026 – Classroom at St Gemma’s Hospice, Leeds
Thursday 17th September 2026 – Virtual session
Session Features:
- Safe, respectful learning environment
- Interactive group exercises and case scenario based discussions
- Video-based learning and reflection
- End of session reflective exercise
- Link to resources.
- Session is mapped to NHSE core capabilities (Supportive, Assistive & Registration levels).
Facilitator
Jane Chatterjee, Lecturer in Palliative Care
Sarah Applewhite, Bereavement Service Co-Ordinator at St Gemma’s Hospice
Cost
£80 per person
(Funded places are available for colleagues in Leeds Community Healthcare and Leeds Primary Care Teams)