If you are a healthcare professional with an interest in palliative care, you may benefit from training at the St Gemma’s Academic Unit of Palliative Care. We offer a range of palliative care and end of life care training courses aimed at doctors, nurses, social workers and other professionals in Leeds and further afield.
Free places are available for health and social care staff, bands 1-4, working across West Yorkshire and Harrogate and who work in any care setting, to attend virtual interactive education sessions around key end of life areas.
You can attend these as standalone sessions or attend all 4 areas. This training is free and has been funded by the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Support Staff Workforce Development Funding (SSWDF).
Early booking is advised as places are limited.
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Dates: May to October 2021
The session will be run via Zoom. You may find the following information useful:
Downloading Zoom and joining a meeting
Installing zoom on tablet or phone
The course is an 8 week home-based learning, multi-professional programme, developed at Princess Alice Hospice in 2001 (www.pah.org.uk) Now being offered at St Gemma’s Hospice.
Contact: Jane Chatterjee Lecturer in Palliative Care AUPCCourses@st-gemma.co.uk
Dates: Autumn course 13 September – 10 November 2021; Spring course 18 April – 15 June 2022
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Key course dates
Bursaries may be available from Hospice UK (via the Wolfson) for people to undertake the ECEPC. Funding is being made available to support candidates from Hospices and care homes. To apply for funding, please visit: www.hospiceuk.org/what-we-offer/grants/open-grant-programmes/details/wolfson-bursaries—hospice-staff
We have now developed an interactive and innovative approach to deliver this training online via Zoom.
The training is now 1 ½ days – the first ½ day is more about the theory of communication skills and the second full day is the role play with simulated patients.
Course dates and times:
To book your place, download the application form and send by email to: AUPCcourses@st-gemma.co.uk
Major ethical issues in palliative and end of life care will be explored with reference to key contemporary cases. This day will be facilitated by Dr Janet Holt, Associate Professor in Healthcare Ethics in the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds.
Date: Friday 9th July 2021 (10.00am to 15.30pm)
People with dementia need increasingly specialised support as they approach the end of life. So do their families and the professionals working with them. Facilitated by Jane Chatterjee, co-author of “End of Life Care for People with Dementia” – A Person-Centred Approach.
Date: Friday 24 September 2021 (09.30am to 15.30pm)
This half-day session on gastrointestinal symptoms, including oral problems, nausea and vomiting, constipation and malignant bowel obstruction, is suitable for all registered healthcare professionals working in areas where patients and their families receive palliative and end of life care. Facilitated by Dr Jason Ward – Consultant in Palliative Medicine at St Gemma’s Hospice.
Date: Wednesday 9th June 2021 (13.00pm-17.00pm)
This half-day session on breathlessness and fatigue takes a multi-disciplinary approach to assessment and management and is suitable for all registered healthcare professionals working in areas where patients and their families receive palliative and end of life care. Facilitated by Dr Jason Ward, Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Elaine Gisbourne, Senior Therapist at St Gemma’s Hospice.
Date: Wednesday 21st July 2021 (13.00pm-17.00pm)
This course covers essential areas of the palliative care curriculum and is relevant to both trainees taking the Palliative Medicine Specialty Certificate Exam and clinicians who want to refresh and update their clinical practice, in line with the most current guidelines and evidence base.
Dates: 13th and 21st September 2021
For more details and to register for this event, visit pallmedpro.com/register
Free places available for health and social care staff on Advance Care Planning (ACP) and Communication Skills. If you have conversations with patients, or their family or carers, about their future care then this session will provide you with the skills and knowledge around ACP.
Dates: TBC
If you have access to a PC/laptop with microphone and camera and wish to book a place, please complete the booking form and email to AUPCcourses@st-gemma.co.uk
This free virtual session is designed to help you keep you and your care home safe. The Infection Prevention and Control Team are hosting updated virtual training aimed at all staff who work in care homes and supported living settings (including carers, nurses, housekeeper and managers). Training will include testing/swabbing, visiting care homes, donning and doffing PPE, hand hygiene, Test and Trace, and a question and answer session
Dates: TBC
The session will be run via Zoom. You may find the following information useful:
Downloading Zoom and joining a meeting
Installing zoom on tablet or phone
This is an international initiative that aims to share specialist knowledge and build communities of practice.
ECHO Palliative Care Programme for GP practices
This programme is free to GPs. Following an initial face-to-face curriculum development meeting there will be monthly one hour video-conferencing sessions that will allow access to the session from the convenience of the practice.
View the flyer to find out more.
To register your interest, contact: janec@st-gemma.co.uk or telephone 0113 218 5282
Facilitated by expert clinicians in palliative medicine and care, including consultant in palliative medicine, consultant nurse and members of the multi-disciplinary Hospice team. Relevant for those who take a lead in palliative/end of life care.
Dates: TBC
For course information, costs and bookings, please contact 0113 218 5195 or email AUPCcourses@st-gemma.co.uk
