We do this by supporting our clinical colleagues with appropriate education and training, clinical audit and quality improvement projects. We also collaborate with local Care Homes, Health and Social Care Partners, Hospitals and other organisations through the delivery of projects such as Project ECHO® and communication skills training.
Our department aims to help fellow professionals to develop their skills within palliative and end of life care. We also work with volunteers and carers to enhance their understanding of issues faced by people when they are ill or dying.
We use innovative facilitation methods when we deliver learning programmes and always try to use peoples’ experiences as the basis for reflection and discussion.
We work closely with other palliative care providers and stakeholders, influencing, developing, and contributing to palliative care educational programmes across professional disciplines. We also contribute to the evidence base for palliative care practice on a local and national basis.
Kay is a registered nurse and joined us from the acute CNS team within GG&C in 2021. She brings with her a wealth of clinical skills and an enthusiasm for teaching and learning. Since being here she has become a Sage and Thyme facilitator, an EASE facilitator and has run a number of training courses for all staff groups. Get in touch with her if you would like to discuss training for yourself – we run courses all year round
Quality and Practice Development Team Lead
Susan is a Registered Nurse and has overall responsibility for education, quality and practice development within the organisation. She has many years’ clinical and academic experience within palliative care and is committed to practice development and high quality care. Her specific areas of interest are communication skills, staff support and quality improvement. She is an accredited trainer for Sage & Thyme® Communication Skills and an experienced facilitator of advanced communication skills training (Maguire Communication Skills Unit, Christie School of Oncology, Manchester). She is also one of the founding facilitators of the Palliative Care Inspiring Leadership Programme and is ACCORD's Project ECHO® Lead.
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:#474d53">Kay is a registered nurse and joined us from the acute CNS team within GG&C in 2021. She brings with her a wealth of clinical skills and an enthusiasm for teaching and learning. Since being here she has become a Sage and Thyme facilitator, an EASE facilitator and has run a number of training courses for all staff groups. Get in touch with her if you would like to discuss training for yourself – we run courses all year round</span></span></span></span></span></p>
We are happy to accommodate practice placements for a variety of students, including nursing, medical, social work, occupational therapy and therapeutic radiography. These placements are organised directly with local Higher Educational Institutes, however if you have any queries then please fill out the contact form below to talk to our Education Department.
We do this by supporting our clinical colleagues with appropriate education and training, clinical audit and quality improvement projects. We also collaborate with local Care Homes, Health and Social Care Partners, Hospitals and other organisations through the delivery of projects such as Project ECHO® and communication skills training.
To help celebrate the hospice’s 40th anniversary the Education Team are hosting a live webinar which will explore the often challenging topic of death and dying.
The aim of the webinar is to explore how the hospice and other services within the community can help people through the sometimes hard times that can be associated with death and dying. It is open to everyone who may want to find out more, join our conversation or ask questions of our panel of experts.
“Supporting death and dying in the community”
Tuesday 25th October between 1pm-2.15pm.
Programme (via Zoom)
13.00 Introductions and welcome
13.10 ACCORD Hospice – the past 40 years Professor Phil Hanlon, ACCORD Chairman
13.25 Video montage of how health care professionals help people who are dying at home
13.30 Expert panel discussion with Q&A session
13.55 Summing up and the next 40 years! Jacki Smart, CEO, ACCORD Hospice
14.10 Feedback poll
14.15 Close
To register please visit - https://forms.office.com/r/ZWEUfzAc11
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