Postgraduate Certificate Palliative and End of Life Care
Bachelor's degree
In Telford
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Telford
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Duration
1 Year
Studying this course will provide you with an opportunity to develop masters level education in relation to palliative and end of life care and apply this to your area of practice in health and / or social care. The course is based on the underlying principles and theories in the specialist area of palliative and end of life care, drawing on local and national policies and guidelines.
Undertaking each of the modules within this course will allow you the opportunity to develop a variety of skills important to your professional practice.
This course aims to equip you with the necessary skills and knowledge that will enable you to lead and develop practice in this specialist area of palliative and end of life care in your future career. This course will include a range of modules that explicitly explore traditional and contemporary issues / factors around palliative and end of life care delivery.
The course also aims to enable practitioners to demonstrate expertise and advanced skills in the management of a case-load and / or managing health / social care staff in relation to people with a life limiting progressive illness requiring palliative and end of life care.
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About this course
A first degree (minimum 2.2) in a related subject area.
You must currently work with individuals with a life limiting progressive illness requiring palliative and / or end life care.
Students who have attained a third class honours, or a non-honours degree, or who do not have a first degree, but have successfully completed Level 6 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) modules (or can provide evidence of their ability to pursue successfully the PGCert) may be considered eg completion of an approved preparation course for level 7 study.
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- Health and Social Care
Course programme
Compton Hospice Education and Training Centre has a well-established tradition of offering high quality research based / specialist modules in palliative and end of life care for over 20 years. The latest technology is embraced within the organisation which includes fully interactive projectors; online multi media and the latest resources in our specialist on site library. Our specialist and experienced team of knowledgeable lecturer practitioners maintain clinical links in order to offer the most contemporary approaches to symptom management and other interventions in palliative and end of life care.
Our track record shows many professional practitioners who have been awarded specialist palliative and end of life care awards have successfully gone on to influence the direction in which palliative and end of life care has taken in their organisation.
Postgraduate Certificate Palliative and End of Life Care