Leeds Palliative Care Network
Leeds Palliative Care Network

Leeds Care Home Education

Training & Education for Care Home Staff in Leeds

Available Courses

Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust End of Life Care Facilitators

Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust End of Life Care Facilitators are a team of senior nurses who offer clinical support, education and training to staff caring for residents who are approaching the end of their life in a care home. Training can be arranged within care homes on a range of topics. 

The courses are free and include: 

  • Verification of Expected Death
  • Syringe Driver Management 
  • Symptom Management 
  • Challenging Communication at the End of Life
  • Planning Ahead/Advance Care Planning
  • Care in the Last Days of Life 

Follow this link for further details - EoL Care Facilitators for Care Homes Training

Register your interest by email to:

eolc.facilitator@nhs.net

Leeds City Council

An introduction to End of life care

  • Face to Face Training
  • 1 day (6.5 hours)
  • Funded - Free to attend

See booking details below.

ACP:- End of life care webinars

  • Online Training 
  • Duration 2 hours 
  • Funded - Free to attend 

See booking details below.

Last Days of Life - End of life care webinars

  • Online Training 
  • Duration 2 hours
  • Funded - Free to attend 

See booking details below.

Bereavement & Loss - End of life care webinars

  • Online Training 
  • Duration 2 hours
  • Funded - Free to attend 

See booking details below.

Communications - End of life care webinars

  • Online Training 
  • Duration 2 hours 
  • Funded - Free to attend 

 

* End of life care training for social care and support workers, Leeds City council Private and independent care home

Please click here for the flyer.

 

Leeds City Council (Care Quality Team)

Arranged information and quality meeting 

General information and quality support across regulated care services 

  • Online Training
  • Duration 1-1.5hrs
  • Free
  • Managers

Buy tickets – Leeds City Council - Care Quality Team (tickettailor.com)

Development Webinars

1 to 1.5 hour webinars & specific topics

  • Online Training
  • 1-1.5hrs
  • Free
  • Managers

Buy tickets – Leeds City Council - Care Quality Team (tickettailor.com)

Website

Single point of contact to access a range of best practice guidance and regulatory requirements 

  • Online Training
  • Free
  • Unregistered Support Workers

 

 

Register your interest by email to:

Via Tickettailor

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Leeds Frailty Education Course

  • Frailty/ Older People
  • Face to Face training
  • 2 days 
  • Cost: £120 (£80 remote)
  • Multi-health professionals

Please click here for more information 

Register your interest by email to:

www.leedsfrailtyeducation.co.uk

St Gemma’s Hospice

Advance communication

  • Blended
  • 1.5 days
  • Cost £400
  • Multi-health professionals

Please click here for the flyer.

End of Life care and dementia study day

  • Face to face training
  • 1 day
  • Cost: £126
  • Multi-health professionals

Please click here for the flyer.

Introduction to palliative and end of life care programme

  • Blended Training
  • 8 weeks
  • WYCA funded
  • Multi-health professional

Please click here for the flyer.

Principles of palliative and End of life care programme

  • Blended Training
  • 12 Weeks
  • WYCA funded
  • Nursing Associates

Please click here for the flyer. 

 

 

 

Register your interest by email to:

AUPCCourses@st-gemma.co.uk

e-ELCA

The End-of-life Care for All (e-ELCA) programme is an elearning library which provides resources to enhance the training and education of the health and social care workforce.  

The library offers over 180 highly interactive sessions which are grouped into 9 modules.

  • Advance care planning
  • Assessment in end-of-life care
  • Communications skills
  • Symptom management, comfort, and wellbeing
  • Integrating learning in end-of-life care
  • Social care
  • Bereavement care
  • Spiritual care
  • Specialist care

Please click here for further information

  • Free online training
  • Varied depending on subject
  • Multi-health Professionals

 

Register your interest by email to:

www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/end-of-life-care/

Helpful Resources 

Advance Care Planning - this is a discussion between an individual and their care provider(s). It is to make clear an individual's wishes and preferences about their future care and treatment.  

Easy Read Leaflets - Patient information leaflets in an easy read format to support patients and their families or carers. 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - this webpage includes helpful resources around supporting equality, inclusion and diversity in palliative and end of life care. 

Local information - local documents and information for health and social care professionals 

How to prevent a fall - Advice for patients, residents and relatives on falls prevention in care settings.

Easy Read Information Leaflets

An easy read version of Preventing Falls in a Care Setting can be found here Preventing falls in a care setting