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 care staff, who work in either of the Leeds hospices, Leeds Primary Care, and senior clinicians in Leeds Community Healthcare Trust, to attend a virtual education session around the key areas in Planning Ahead.
Early booking is advised as places are limited.
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Dates: August to October 2021
The session will be run via Zoom. You may find the following information useful:
Downloading Zoom and joining a meeting
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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 11 April – 15 June 2022
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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:
The current course dates are full and new dates will be released here soon. In the meantime if you want to be added to the waiting list or receive details of these dates when they are released then please email AUPCCourses@st-gemma.co.uk
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
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: September 2021-March 2022
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
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 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
For course information, costs and bookings, please contact 0113 218 5195 or email AUPCcourses@st-gemma.co.uk
