Training at LOROS

At LOROS we offer a wide range of training in palliative and end of life care courses. We also offer bespoke training that can be delivered in your place of work to meet your requirements.

TRAINING AT LOROS

The training we provide

Our training courses include:

  • Advanced Communications Skills - Tier 3 Communication skills
  • Talking about Dying - Tier 2 Communication skills
  • Sage & Thyme - Tier 1 Communication skills
  • Symptom management
  • Syringe driver training
  • Verification of expected death
  • Personalised End of Life Care is Everybody's Business (PELCEB)
  • Personalised End of Life Care for Care Home Champions
  • Personalised End of Life Care
  • Advance Care Planning and ReSPECT Training

Unless stated please book online; if online booking is not an option please contact one of the education team via email LPDC@loros.co.uk or telephone (0116) 231 8455

“Couldn’t be improved, it was the best end of life care session I've attended" – Delegate, Symptom Management at the End of Life

Delegate - Symptom Management at the End of Life

My understanding of the different ways people deal with grief / bereavement has grown enormously, as well as having gained better insight into how my attitude or words can influence a customers behaviour – Delegate - Having Conversations about Death and Dying

Delegate - Having Conversations about Death and Dying

Our current courses

Study Day

16th January 2025

End of Life Care for Support Workers

This study day provides health and social care support workers with an introduction to supporting people and those important to them towards the end of life.

Study Day

20th January 2025

Advance Care Planning discussions and completion of ReSPECT forms

This interactive study day considers best practice in advance care planning discussions for staff who complete documentation for the ReSPECT process. This is led by a palliative medicine consultant.

Study Day

5th February 2025

End of Life Care for Support Workers

This study day provides health and social care support workers with an introduction to supporting people and those important to them towards the end of life.

Workshop

6th February 2025

SAGE & THYME®: Teaching everyone to listen - Tier 1 Communication Skills

This foundation level workshop teaches the communication skills needed to notice distress, listen carefully and respond with empathy. It is interactive in nature and uses a mix of small group work, lectures and rehearsals to teach participants how to have an evidence-based, structured conversation with someone who has concerns or is distressed.

Workshop

13th February 2025

Update and Refresher Syringe Driver/Pump Training

This interactive workshop is for registered nurses who have previously been trained but not used a syringe driver recently and would like a refresher

 

Please note: A Certificate of Attendance will be issued but not competence.

Lecture

13th February 2025

LOROS Lecture: Inequities at the end of life: The Lancet Commission on the Value of Death

The Lancet Commission on the Value of Death (2022) examined contemporary death, dying and  grieving from a global perspective. It took a complex systems approach to death, dying, caregiving, and grieving, recognising the wider determinants and their intersectional nature. This talk will explore the implications of this Commission for palliative care.

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