This Three-Day training course takes place over three Thursdays in January 2026 (15th, 22nd and 29th); and it is accredited to Level 4 through our Quality Licence from the national awarding body, Skills & Education Group.
According to recent research, nearly 75% of us want to die at home - surrounded by loved ones, and in comforting and familiar surroundings. Yet, most of us will die in hospital, a nursing home or residential home. While the hospice movement goes some way to providing that caring environment for a "good death", their resources are very limited. Consequently, the current approach in hospitals has medicalised and sterlised death - until dying has become another protracted and painful stage of living.
This challenging, informative and sensitive course is aimed at carers, social prescribers, link workers, nursing staff, volunteers, and anyone involved in supporting terminally-ill individuals and their families. Its overall aim is to enable, where possible, the dying to experience a dignified and loving death, in line with their wishes and best interests - as well as providing compassionate support to their families.
It provides participants with a unique and broad framework, with which they can provide effective, holistic and caring support to the dying and their families - AND which is underpinned by compassionate competence.
Learning Units include End of Life Planning, Facilitating Sensitive Conversations, the Impact of Anticipatory Grief, Creating Meaningful Legacies, the Importance of Post-Death Rituals, Compassionate Communication, the Four Stages of Dying, Understanding Pre and Post Death Family Dynamics, and Controlling the Post-Death Process.
