Communicating with families when children have a life-limiting condition and complex needs

Overview

Gain a deeper understanding of families’ needs and the difficulties they may face from diagnosis onwards. This training supports Department of Health and Together for Short Lives guidelines.

Learning outcomes

• gain a deeper understanding of families’ needs
• identify general family pressures, enabling professionals to facilitate focused support services
• gain an understanding of parents’ responses to loss and grief before and after their child’s death
• explore and develop our self-awareness and support for ourselves
• identify the role of a ‘key worker’ in view of National Service Framework recommendations
• become familiar with useful tools to aid communication between service providers and families
• gain information about Child Bereavement UK, other similar support organisations and resources available.

Who should attend?

Suitable for professionals based in the community or in a hospital setting.

We encourage prospective participants to consider their own experience of loss and how it might affect them during training. Generally speaking, our training is not usually suited to anyone who has suffered a recent, significant personal loss or bereavement.

Fee

Fees for participants include course materials, a CPD certificate of attendance, refreshments and light lunch. We would like to thank St Oswald’s Hospice for kindly providing the venue for this training day.

“I feel better equipped for handling difficult conversations – both with adults, and with children.” Course delegate