End of Life Care Level 2
The End of Life Care Level 2 course is designed to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of the current guidance and principles surrounding end-of-life care for adults. The course aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide compassionate, dignified, and person-centred care to individuals nearing the end of their lives.
The course has a duration of 3 hours, allowing learners to gain a solid foundation in end-of-life care within a focused timeframe. The training is typically conducted in person, providing opportunities for interactive discussions, case studies, and practical examples to deepen understanding and facilitate skill development.
Upon successful completion of the course, learners will receive a certificate that is valid for three years. This certification serves as evidence of their knowledge and understanding of end-of-life care principles and their commitment to providing compassionate and person-centred care to individuals and their families during this crucial stage of life.
Learning Objectives
- Explain what is meant by palliative and end of life
- Understand effective communication in end-of-life care
- Identify pain and symptom management
- Explain ethical and legal issues around end-of-life care
- Be able to explain symptoms of the last few hours and the effect on staff
Special Focus Courses
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Aim: To ensure that delegates have the knowledge and confidence to provide support for children and young people who have an autistic spectrum disorder.
Boundaries and Good Practice
This course aims to ensure healthcare support workers and adult social care workers understand the importance of maintaining professional boundaries and relationships.
Care Planning
This course ensures that care planning by healthcare support workers and adult social care workers places the best interests of individuals at the centre of care, whilst enabling them to make and communicate their own decisions.
Continence Care
Aim: To enable delegates to develop their knowledge and skills in relation to promoting continence, including early identification and care of incontinence issues, and person centred care for people with continence problems.
Dementia Awareness
Aim: To provide healthcare support workers and adult social care workers to understand dementia and help improve the quality of life for people living with dementia.
Disability, Equality and Inclusion
Aim: To enable healthcare support workers and adult social care workers to develop their knowledge and understanding of disability and impairment, and the social model of disability.
Dysphagia Awareness
This 1-hour course teaches staff to understand the importance of multi-disciplinary approach to risk assessments and management of dysphagia.
End of Life Care
Aim: To give learners an understanding of the current guidance around end of life care for adults.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
This course aims to provide learners with a general understanding and awareness of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This eLearning training takes approximately 1 hour to complete.
HIV Awareness
Aim: To provide delegates with an understanding of HIV and an awareness of its prevalence in today's society as well as its progression, attitudes towards HIV and its impact on the individual.
Introduction to the Autism Spectrum
Aim: To ensure healthcare support workers and adult social care workers have the knowledge and confidence to provide support for people with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
Learning Disability Awareness
This half-day course trains Health and Social Care staff to understand the needs of individuals with a range of Learning Disabilities and make adjustments for them.
Learning Disability and Autism Awareness
This eLearning course provides learners with an understanding of Learning Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder and the support they can offer those with Learning Disabilities or Autism.
Mental Capacity Act Awareness
Aim: To provide healthcare support workers and adult social care workers with an overview of the Mental Capacity Act, to ensure they have the knowledge and skill to deal with situations relating to mental capacity.
Personal Care
Aim: To provide healthcare support workers and adult social care workers with the knowledge required to provide their service user with personal care in a dignified and empowering way.
Positive Behaviour support
Aim: To provide an overview of the subject, enabling an understanding of behaviours and its origin in order to develop ways to respond positively to the behaviour.
Pressure Care Management
Aim: To provide healthcare support workers and adult social care workers with information on the cause, prevention and care of pressure sores.
Prevention of Slips, Trips and Falls
Aim: To provide healthcare support workers and adult social care workers with the knowledge and understanding to prevent falls within the care sector.
Professional Relationships and Boundaries in Care
Aim: To ensure learners understand the importance of maintaining professional boundaries and upholding professional relationships.
Promoting Dignity in Care
Aim: To provide healthcare support workers and adult social care workers with an awareness of dignity in care, and how it can be promoted and maintained.
Stroke Awareness
Aim: To raise awareness of the signs and impact of strokes and how to respond effectively to someone experiencing a stroke.
Substance Misuse Awareness
Aim: To give learners an awareness of issues surrounding drug and alcohol abuse.
Supervision and Appraisal Skills
Aim: To provide candidates with the understanding, knowledge and skills to carry out supervision and appraisal activities effectively.
Understanding Behaviours that Challenge
Aim: To help healthcare support workers and adult social care workers to understand the functions and meaning of behaviours and how to support individuals in their setting.
Understanding Domestic Abuse
Aim: To ensure learners have an awareness of domestic abuse in different forms, are able to recognise possible victims and be aware of the help available for victims.