Tier Two Courses

Intermediate communication Skills

The Intermediate Communication Skills training will enable you to enhance communication skills in difficult or challenging situations.

The training explores barriers to communication, strategies to manage conversations in difficult scenarios, how to explore conversations in ceilings of treatment or end of life care as wells as tools and skills to help you develop confidence.

Who can attend?

A specialist palliative and end of life care practitioner

Any NHS, allied health or social care professionals who regularly work with life-limiting illness of uncertain prognosis

Social workers, care home managers or social care managers

Registered professionals wishing to explore more challenging conversations and communication skills.

Dates
Wednesday 11 December 2024 – 8.45am-4pm – Virtual
Wednesday 12 February 2025 – 8.45am-4pm – Virtual

Pain in Palliative Care – study day

Virtual 

This study day will cover:
• An overview of the physiology of pain.
• Identifying different pain types and treatment.
• Understanding the skills required to assess and manage pain effectively.
• Exploring pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of pain.
• An exploration of “Total Pain”.
• Offer an understanding of emotional, psychological, social and spiritual pain and gain an understanding on how these experiences impact on the individual’s pain experience.

Who can attend?
Healthcare professionals who offer care and have an interest in patients and families with life limiting respiratory disease

Wednesday 16 October 2024 – 9.30-2pm

Palliative Management of Respiratory Disease – study day

This study day will cover:
• Explanation of domains of palliative care applicable to chronic respiratory diseases.
• Overview of palliative care interventions for patients with chronic respiratory diseases. Offering of palliative management for clinicians to use in practice.
• Recommendations for clinical management of patients receiving palliative care for chronic respiratory diseases.

Who can attend?
Healthcare professionals who offer care and have an interest in patients and families with life-limiting respiratory disease.

Wednesday 20 November 2024 – 9.30-2pm

Principles of Advance Care Planning and Sensitive Conversations

Virtual

An introduction to the universal principles of Advance Care Planning including:
• Development and agreement of personalised Advance Care Planning.
• Personalised conversations about future wishes. A shared decision-making process in partnership with appropriate professionals.
• Sharing and reviewing of personalised Advance Care Planning.
• An awareness of palliative and end-of-life care underpinned by the five ‘Priorities of Care for the Dying Person’

Who can attend?
Healthcare professionals who are caring for palliative patients and their families.

Dates
Friday 6 December 2024 – 1.30–5pm
Friday 14 February 2025 – 10am–1.30pm